Billions found yet another way to reinvent itself with its Season 4 finale

Thrillist

"Given the combative nature of the plotting, one might worry there are only so many ways to reconfigure the pieces on the chess board; certain acts of narrative deception, like setting up an elaborate business deal only to reveal it's a con all along, might lose their ability to shock," says Dan Jackson. "The foundational dueling protagonists, Paul Giamatti's tortured Attorney General Chuck Rhodes and Damien Lewis's vindictive hedge fund guru Bobby Axelrod, eventually must stumble over in exhaustion from all the ethically questionable scheming and word-soupy monologuing, right? And yet: Over 40 episodes in, Billions remains its best self. On a surface level, this season once again found the series discovering new ways to showcase the concerns, hobbies, and mouth-watering obsessions of the wealthy"

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