*No one should drink milk with their coffee, anyway. Chuck can’t relate to the younger people on his staff and the New York Times reporter because they eat healthy Korean food and Vietnamese banh mi instead of pouring whole milk into their coffee* Especially, since Billionsturns it into a weird, extended “kids these days” metaphor. I don’t doubt that the decision to frame an innocent man is a big one for Bryan, the character, but to us, the audience, it’s just a bore. One is Chuck’s recommendation to Bryan to get his hands dirty has been done to death in storytelling. Chuck instructs Bryan to frame a patsy at Axe Capital for Axe to find to preserve Donnie as the mole. Bryan has run into an issue because Axe knows he has a mole within Axe Capital and is trying to smoke them out. Chuck, while still officially recused from the Axe Capital case is coaching Bryan Connerty from the sidelines. The central conflict of Boast And Rails isn’t much of a conflict at all. How could there be in something so relatively unprecedented? Additionally, the show hasn’t relied on this particular clusterfuck of interconnected relationships and rivalries as a crutch, letting them simmer in the background until conversations need to be had. ![]() But at the same time, there are no easy answers. No one has to spend the night on the couch. And it’s an even better treat that the show seems to know what to do with it by underplaying it. It’s in this unexplainable relationship where Billions has found the most dramatically fertile ground. But of all the billions of people on Earth, Wendy was able to connect with Chuck’s white whale of a nemesis to form part of an impressive duo. No, it’s that Wendy and Axe share something markedly different from a loving relationship. Chuck and Wendy’s sex life is so specific to them that Axe wouldn’t want to be involved and even if he was maybe Chuck could work that into the ultimate trust-based kinky power play of all time. And he’s not worried about them carrying on a sexual or romantic relationship. It’s not that Chuck is worried that Wendy loves Axe, he knows she doesn’t or at the very least knows she would love Chuck more anyway. That’s pretty heady, human stuff for a show about financial fraud. Wendy tells Chuck that she loves him and Chuck responds that he loves her more than anything in the world then adds “Lots of people love each other but you and Axe. His disdain for Wendy and Axe’s relationship goes even further than that, however. *Billions’ streak of truly bizarre guest stars remains intact first with “I-Just-Love-The-Music” James Hetfield and now “Let-Me-Tell-You-About-My-IPO” Mark Texieiria And at the beginning of the episode he hates that Bobby is able to set up a meet and greet with Mark Teixeira* for the Rhoades’ son Kevin. He hates corrupt business practices, of course. He’s tried to communicate just much he hates Wendy working there previously and all the explanations have felt shallow. Not because Wendy Rhoades is a once-in-a-lifetime character but rather she is the lynchpin of perhaps one of the more interesting troikas on television right now and a unique (to me at least) plot line.Īfter Chuck gets tipsy over whiskey drinks with Bryan he returns home to Wendy and finally verbalises how he feels about Wendy’s relationship with Axe. Billions is a better show for having Maggie Siff as Wendy on it. ![]() The high-profile cast is led by Emmy winner Paul Giamatti (“John Adams”) as Chuck Rhoades.The first aspect is something I’ve highlighted several times but escalates into an even better level in Boast And Rails: the relationships among Axe, Chuck and Wendy. Both men use their intelligence, power and influence to outmaneuver the other in this battle over billions. Wendy, who has been in her position longer than Chuck has been in his, refuses to give up her career for her husband’s legal crusade against Axelrod. To date, Rhoades has never lost an insider trading case - he’s 81-0 - but when criminal evidence turns up against Axelrod, he proceeds cautiously in building the case against Axelrod, who employs Rhoades’ wife, psychiatrist Wendy, as a performance coach for his company. prey with Bobby Axelrod, an ambitious hedge-fund king. ![]() ![]() attorney Chuck Rhoades is embroiled in a high-stakes game of predator vs. – Wealth, influence and corruption collide in this drama set in New York. Kimono – Christopher Winston & Edward McMahonīillions Episode 5 Closing Ending Credits Music Butane (Champion’s Anthem) – Killer MikeĢ. Season 7: Episode 5 Songs – ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ S07E05ġ. Season 7: Episode 4 Songs – ‘Hurricane Rosie’ S07E04 Game Show – Nicolas Folmer & Michael Casabianca Season 7: Episode 3 Songs – ‘Winston Dick Energy’ S07E03Ģ. Season 7: Episode 2 Songs – ‘Original Sin’ S07E02 Billions Music Episode 12 (October 29) Season 7: Episode 1 Songs – ‘Tower of London’ S07E01
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