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I'm currently slowly making my way through Billions, which I never caught for whatever reason, and its pretty fucking great.

this shit falls off so hard and so fast

I assume it had a behind the scenes writers room / showrunner change after season 1, because it suffers from moron writers trying to write super smart characters and devolves into all kinds of stupid shit happening and characters acting outside of established traits so that DRAMA and PLOT can happen, then giving up on the good characters to start introducing self inserts who - like the writers theyre based on - are a lot less fucking interesting and charismatic.

e: its a lot like Suits which starts off super promising and compelling, and rapidly spirals into "Why are these FUCKING IDIOTS doing such IDIOTIC SHIT, and who are all these NEW IDIOTS the plot wants to spend so much fucking time with, because THEY SUCK"

I liked Billions a lot but yeah, the only way the writers showed "intelligence" was characters saying pop culture references like they're Bill Simmons.

Such a great cast though. Giamatti vs Lewis was great, Maggie Siff and Condola Rashad are smoke shows, the guy playing Wags was hilarious.

I stopped watching after Lewis left the show. Didn't see the point without the two big characters dueling.