![]() “You look ready to toss your cap in the air at West Point,” his trusty underling Karl says, which is the only acknowledgment that Chuck has undergone a complete makeover in what amounts to a matter of days in the Billions universe. Seeing a clean-shaven Chuck is like spotting a zebra without stripes-it doesn’t make sense. Paul Giamatti doesn’t just look noticeably slimmer, he’s also lost the facial hair that’s been as much of a trademark for Chuck as all those kinky BDSM sessions. is starting to consider the moral consequences of his life choices-OK, just kidding about the last one, he just really wants Wendy to pull the plug on him if the day comes when he starts slowly dying of organ failure.īut really, the most shocking moment of Billions’ return has nothing to do with plot, but one person’s appearance. ![]() But rather than acknowledge the long (albeit off-screen) passage of time, the show confidently returned to its midseason plotting with the expectation that its viewers would get right back in the saddle.Īs a brief refresher, here are the most pressing concerns for the main characters heading into the back half of the season: Chuck needs to find his dad a new kidney Wendy is trying to make sure her buff artist boyfriend doesn’t get corrupted by his newfound wealth Axe is looking to expose the supposed do-gooder Mike for being just as much of a capitalistic monster as he is Taylor is still working on their environmentally conscious impact fund and Chuck Sr. (The Limitless pill chaos unintentionally functioned as a midseason finale, which made it all the more hilarious.) The break finally ended this past Sunday, with Billions airing the eighth episode in its fifth season. The result was a 15-month hiatus for a season that was already completely written and didn’t have a natural place to hit pause before it was forced to do so. But the show’s latest installment was one of the stranger casualties of last year’s COVID-imposed shutdown of television and film productions: Billions had already aired more than half its season before filming paused. ![]() Season 5 has juggled a lot of dense, ridiculous, and twisty story lines-which is to say, it’s been a typical season of Billions. married his Native American mistress who just gave birth to his child he’s also in dire need of a kidney transplant. ![]() Meanwhile, Chuck and Wendy Rhoades, finalizing a divorce that was brewing after Paul Giamatti’s iconic BDSM speech to the public in the previous season, moved on to have romantic entanglements with guest stars Julianna Margulies (as a sociology professor who published a book on female orgasms) and Frank Grillo (as a buff postmodern artist painting on commission for Axe), respectively. (Luckily for Bezos, his brief journey to the cosmos fared better than Billions’ own self-funded billionaire rocket launch from Season 3 RIP, Bob Benson.) Not that Billions needs much inspiration from the real world for its fictionalized absurdities: its fifth season has featured Bobby Axelrod and his latest billionaire rival, Mike Prince, fighting over a shaman-“You stole my shaman!” Axe says in the second episode, which I’ll never get out of my head-and Axe taking a Limitless-esque pill that nearly tanks his company. Between the GameStop stock debacle and Jeff Bezos leaving Earth’s orbit in a phallic rocket, it feels like the world has been product testing potential plotlines for Billions for the past two years.
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