Her marriage over save for legal documentation, Wendy gets a harsh look at her pathetic future in “The New Decas” if she doesn’t start breaking some of the rules she had no say in making. Wendy, living separately from Chuck in a spacious apartment courtesy of Axe, has been in a holding pattern these past several months. Now working alongside her one-time mentor again, Kate is gearing up for a congressional run (we’ve known since season one that she’s got her eyes on the White House) - and requiring that Chuck brief her on all his gameplay. This is a long-overdue creative decision, but it’s much welcomed. With Chuck’s previous adversaries Bryan Connerty (Toby Leonard Moore) and Waylon “Jock” Jeffcoat (Clancy Brown) scrubbed from the story line, it now allows for Condola Rashad’s intrepid prosecutor, Kate Sacker, to take a more central role. (Maggie Siff), I believe he believes he can change. He’s also attempting self-improvement, but to paraphrase his soon-to-be ex-wife, Wendy Rhoades, M.D. He’s resumed his quest to take down Axe, now pursuing the hedge-fund billionaire on a cryptocurrency-mining charge - with the intel being fed to him by Taylor Mason (Asia Kate Dillon), who was forced to return to Axe Capital in the season-four finale as Chuck’s operative.

(Paul Giamatti) has gone back to the drawing board, both personally and professionally. (Jeffrey DeMunn) to kick his long-suffering wife, Ellen (Deborah Rush), to the curb, and marry his indigenous baby mama, Roxanne (Lily Gladstone) and for Bobby “Axe” Axelrod (Damian Lewis) to grow his ginger hair into something Jackson Maine worthy.Ĭharles “Chuck” Rhoades Jr. It’s unclear exactly how much time has passed since last year’s finale, but it’s been a few months: long enough for Charles Rhoades, Sr. But if “The New Decas,” written by co-showrunners Brian Koppelman and David Levien is any indication, it’s still business as usual for the ruthless moneymakers and dubious justice warriors populating the Billions world. Seven episodes of season five were filmed before the coronavirus forced a production shutdown.

And the start of a debate over whether or not rage rooms will still be a thing post-pandemic.

Think of it as a reflection of recent, but not current, history. Therefore, the behavior of Billions’ main characters may come off as even more solipsistic than usual.” So if you’re gonna watch a show about the morally reprehensible activities of the uber-wealthy in what now looks like an alternate-dimension New York City, my advice is to leave reality at the door. In the case of the Showtime drama Billions, I imagine it would read something like this: “What you’re about to see was written and shot before the American outbreak of COVID-19. It feels like any new episodes of scripted television nowadays should come with a disclaimer.

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