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Billions · Season 1 · Showtime

Billions Season 1

Billions Season 1 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 7.5/10. 12 episodes on Showtime from 17 January 2016.

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BollyMeter7.5/10A 77% Rotten Tomatoes score from 134 critics and a Metacritic of 69 captured a divided press: most acknowledged the MacLachlan-level star power of Giamatti and Lewis and the pleasure of the combat, while questioning whether the show had anything to say about Wall Street beyond dramatising its excess.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Billions launched on Showtime on January 17, 2016 with the single most powerful casting argument of the television year: Paul Giamatti as a morally compromised US Attorney and Damian Lewis as the hedge fund king he is trying to destroy. Critics awarded it 77% on Rotten Tomatoes from 134 reviews and a Metacritic of 69, with the consensus noting the soapy melodrama as a feature rather than a flaw if approached with the right expectations. USA Today called it full of delicious twists; NPR credited it with painting a compelling portrait of power's mechanics. Variety praised Lewis as turning in some of his best work post-Homeland. The financial world detail was authentic enough to hold but never so technical as to exclude general audiences.

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The Room

77%critics positive · n=1348.4/10IMDb audience
  • “Full of delicious twists and turns, Billions is a juicy melodrama that delights in poking fun at the lifestyles of the rich.”
    USA Today
  • “Billions excels most at painting a compelling portrait of how powerful men - and the women behind them - move the world.”
    NPR

Standout Episodes

The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.

  1. E1Pilot8.0

    The pilot establishes the Chuck-Axe combat engine with full efficiency: a BDSM scene that immediately declares the show's willingness to transgress, a wiretap investigation that maps the legal cat-and-mouse, and two lead performances of extraordinary containment. The first hour does not waste a minute establishing the show's pleasure principle.

    The moment: The first scene - played entirely for character revelation rather than shock value - signals that Billions will be smarter about its provocations than its premise implies.

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