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Billions is Meh. (Spoilers?)

Guy Gardener

Guy Gardener

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Billions.

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Finished the pilot, but it's not due out properly till Jan 17.

All the good bits are in the above trailer.

So bland.

50 minutes all about a metaphor for baiting a hook that was telegraphed in the first 4 minutes.

Don't bother.

Next time, please Hollywood, unless it's a Life reunion, won't you please, please, let Damian speak with his real accent?
 
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Well, there's another bit right at the beginning where

a dominatrix urinates on Paul Giamatti.

But it's almost like they might have added that because everything else was just slow like custard.
 
I love Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti, but yeah, that doesn't look interesting at all.
 
I think the most interesting thing about that trailer is that they said "fuck" a few times.

So edgy.
 
I saw the previews to this yesterday before "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."

It didn't seem interesting, or different from previous shows (e.g. Las Vegas) before it.
 
As I was watching the trailer, all I was thinking was, "Who is this show for? Who could possibly relate to any of these characters?"

Because I sure as hell can't.
 
There is one thing.

Damian Lewis' character used to work in the world trade centre. He was a junior partner in a large company. After 911, he was the only partner left and suddenly a billionaire rather than the coffee boy. No seriously, the reason he wasn't in the towers is that he went out to get sandwiches for every one else he works with, who died 1/2 an hour later. Did this guy find out about 911, just before 911, and rather than saving America, he let his friends die to make a few bucks, by GOING OUT FOR SANDWHICHES?

What a ####.
 
Ugh, that sounds awful. Not just the prediction, but the fact that's how he got rich. Seriously? Who thought that was a good idea?
 
If garbage like this is now making it to Showtime I think everyone here should now start writing some new pilot ideas. I have a great idea for a comedy about a straight guy getting AIDS in the 1980s, or maybe an uplifting story about how a man survived the nuclear bomb drops on Japan because be bent down to tie his shoe.

This whole show just sounds horrid!
 
Why are you turning turning Blue?

Did I forget to mention the AH-mazing intersection between Paul and Damian's characters?

Hedge-fund manager Damian Lewis' Therapist is Paul Giamatti (A States Attorney thinking about prosecuting Damian)'s wife.
 
12 Episodes. Season one is finished and over. A lot of contrived #### that only came about because supposedly smart people made stupid decisions for no reasons. It got better, a lot better if I'm not misremembering how shit the pilot was, but Billions is not exactly Better Call Saul either.

I'd give the first season a 6 out of 10. If you have to, you have to, but by no means go out of your way to get into this series because there's no real urgency to the weight to the drama as it formulates and percolates.
 
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