At first, he didn’t seem to have Axe’s lust for financial conquest, and he certainly didn’t have the ostentatious flair of Wags (David Costabile). 1 percent, Stoll’s Mike Prince arrived as a potential new way of looking at wealth. For a show built on the lives and preoccupations of The.
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The Season 5 introduction of Corey Stoll turned out to be a savvy bait-and-switch (one that series showrunners Brian Koppleman and David Levien say was in place well before the season’s pandemic production hiatus). After exhausting many of its available maneuvers to head off an all-out war, continuing the show only works if one of their arsenals is transferred to another player. Despite them being back at each other’s throats in Season 5, “Billions” is built on mutually assured destruction. While the two were never friends - this season’s lingering animus is probably the best proof, in hindsight - their shared efforts did take down common foes and set up some mutually beneficial circumstances. Through the show’s run, Chuck and Axe have gone through every step on the ally/enemy spectrum. However surprising Damian Lewis’ departure from “Billions” might be, it’s one that makes sense. (Or a Geist or a fantôme, to borrow some translations from the official languages in Axe’s new chosen homeland.)
In the biggest “Billions” twist yet, Axe is gone. Only, as “Billions” observers have come to expect, not only is Chuck’s emotional state a misdirect (Giamatti has perfected playing Chuck on a perpetual knife’s edge, regardless of temporal trickery), the “him” in question isn’t even the guy with his name on the building.
‘Billions’ Ending with Season 7 Sets Showtime Up for ‘Trillions’ and Zillions and Kajillions of Spinoffs After the previous week’s stunning close that left Axe ( Damian Lewis) himself with a deer-in-the-headlights look, it’s easy to read this opening as Chuck having a tinge of regret and unease on what would be his pre-arrest victory lap. Kicking it off, there’s Chuck (Paul Giamatti) walking dazed through an empty-feeling Axe Cap atrium looking for one man in particular. So in an hour that would ultimately mean the farewell of one of the headliner cast members that helped make “Billions” the “Billions” it became, it’s only fitting that the Season 5 finale teed up that ending with a trademark flourish. No matter how many hours the story jumps back, getting a glimpse of an opening that you know is going to be completely reframed is an invitation to go on a roller coaster that’ll end in fire or Ice Juice.
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There are few things on TV more thrilling than a “Billions” episode that starts in media res.
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