Billions

The cast is powerhouse (obviously). Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti are at the top of their game, and they make an excellent pairing (at first). The show starts off creating a perfect balance between the handsome, charismatic, likeable criminal billionaire played by Damian Lewis and the unattractive, distasteful (in some ways contemptible) but honest and justice-seeking United States Attorney played by Paul Giamatti. It's brilliantly playing with our unconscious and conscious biases.

The bad guy started out as the underdog, came from nothing, built it all himself, is handsome, read more

Billions is smart Wallstreet Game of Thrones. It's about intrigue, characters trying to outsmart each other and alliances & rivalries. At the core though it's a show about two VERY Alpha males in Billionair Bobby Axelrod & the New York district attorny Chuck Roads and them budding heads.

this is also something you have to get past. Almost every character (male & female) is a redicolous Alpha Male/Female to the 17th degree. You add to that copious ammount of lifestyle porn and really scene chewing performances and you'd think Billions is terrible tripe.

Except it's... read more