J'ai trouvé par hasard une funko pop de Chuck Rhodes de Billions chez micromania en france. Il existe aussi les pop de axe, Wendy et Taylor.

I'm probably not the first to notice this, but the funds run by Bobby Axelrod and Taylor Mason are of course Axe Cap and Mase Cap.

An axe is a sharp weapon/tool used to make incisions and sharp cuts. The mace (I know the spelling is different) is a blunt weapon/tool used to deliver strikes over a larger area with less precision.

I know that the names are literally their last names, but it seems to me that Bobby Axelrod is more of a mace, and Taylor Mason is more of an axe. Did anyone else notice this?

I think there’s a genuinely good Billions spinoff sitting right there with Mike Prince.

The finale leaves him with roughly $100M and his presidential ambitions completely destroyed, but not necessarily dead forever. Instead of doing another version of Axe vs. Chuck, I’d make the entire show about Prince rebuilding from $100M and eventually making another run at the White House.

Season 1: The comeback

Prince starts with $100M, which sounds enormous, but compared to his old life he’s basically been kicked out of the club.

His reputation is radioactive, nobody wants to give him institutional capital, and most of his old allies are gone.

The season is about reminding us why Prince became worth $10B+ in the first place. He finds some distressed opportunity, rebuilds his credibility, and claws his way back to around $1B.

The key is that he doesn’t spend the season obsessing over Axe. Prince eventually realizes Axe did him a favor by exposing every weakness he had.

Season 2: Build something America actually needs

Instead of going straight back into hedge funds, Prince builds an industrial empire around things like energy, nuclear, AI infrastructure, defense, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, etc.

He gets richer, but he’s also strategically building factories and jobs across politically important states.

At first it looks like normal expansion.

Then Scooter realizes Prince is basically building an Electoral College map with capital expenditures.

By the end, Prince is worth maybe $3B-$5B again and can now say something incredibly powerful politically:

“I built a fortune. I lost it. Then I built another one.”

Season 3: Kingmaker

Prince insists he isn’t running for president.

Instead, he starts backing governors, senators, ballot initiatives, think tanks, infrastructure projects, and candidates across both parties.

He becomes the guy everyone needs.

The political establishment slowly realizes he isn’t buying politicians. He’s building the infrastructure underneath a future presidential campaign.

There’s a presidential election that season.

Prince stays out of it.

Everyone assumes that means Axe permanently killed his presidential dream.

Meanwhile Prince and Bradford are already modeling the NEXT election.

Season 4: The invisible campaign

Prince still hasn’t declared.

But he’s traveling the country, speaking about American manufacturing, showing up at major projects his companies funded, meeting foreign leaders, publishing policy ideas, and gradually becoming a national figure again.

Pollsters start including him despite him not being a candidate.

18%.

22%.

27%.

Now everyone realizes what he’s doing and the establishment starts trying to destroy him before he ever announces.

This would also be the perfect season for limited Chuck/Axe appearances.

I’d actually have Axe refuse to go after him again.

Something like:

“I already beat him. If America wants to make the mistake now, that’s between America and Mike.”

Season ends with Prince announcing his candidacy.

Season 5: President Prince

Full presidential campaign.

And I’d have him actually win.

Otherwise you’ve just spent five seasons telling essentially the same story as Season 7.

The interesting part would be watching what Prince becomes in order to win.

His entire flaw has always been that he can justify almost anything by convincing himself the end result is morally necessary.

So every compromise becomes:

“If doing one bad thing prevents something much worse, refusing to do it would actually be immoral.”

You’d want the audience split between:

“This man absolutely should not be president.”

and

“He may legitimately be the most competent person running.”

He wins the election.

Final episode is the transition.

Prince finally receives his first truly classified presidential briefing. After spending his entire life convinced he should have this power, he finally sees what the job actually entails.

Scooter asks him:

“Still think you’re the man who should have this?”

Prince pauses.

“More than ever.”

Cut to black.

I honestly think this would give Prince a much better purpose than just dropping him into another hedge fund rivalry. The whole series becomes the origin story of a president.

Would anyone else watch this?

Fair play to Paul G for his weightloss though!

This is when I knew they were bullshittin' and didn't GAF anymore.

WTF was this about? Chuck has a strategy in mind and knows just the guy to run it by. So instead of just calling or texting... He has to meet Triple H down at Barclays Center in an empty arena.

Only here can Chuck come to understand his un-realized instinct has deep roots in WWE lore and is known as the Double Turn. Master Triple H shares the ancient wisdom and invigorates Chuck to embody the war-cry 'The Heat and The Pop'.

Paul Giamatti had to be trolling here.. right?

Just finished episode 4 of Season 7 and i loved the way they met on the street at the end and then both disappeared into the nightlife of NYC

Having just got the first time visited that city early last year (have been back 5 times since)

It’s so funny watching a show take place in NYC and knowing you’ve actually been there. That it doesn’t just exist in TV and the city is as awe-inspiring and “center of the world”.

Wouldn’t want to live there but man the aerial shots that have played throughout the show each time they cut to a different scene is one of my favorite aspects of the show. Especially at night.

Anyway!

I slogged through Season 6, not going to lie. I just didn’t care much for Prince and i missed Axe.

I think season 7 is far more interesting with Prince as essential a serial killer (figuratively) who hides his intentions very well and is actually an immoral man obsessed with power. I like him much better as the slimy villain. And the stakes feel much higher than last season. I guess it should since it is the last seasons

I really enjoyed the reunion scene with axe and his favorite/respected trio. Axe won but lost.

Will continue watching and perhaps edit this post as i do. If anyone cares and read this far.

Edit: Love they’ve brought back characters from earlier seasons. Connerty and the Russian guy adversary to Axe.

Edit 2: made it episode 9 tonight and I will finish it tomorrow night! Still holding my interest. Really curious if Prince is stopped.

Edit 3: EPISODE 10 END FUCK YEAH AXE. GET THAT FUCKER. President Cuck LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Last and Final Edit: aww just finished the final episode. Love how Mike almost won until the very end and left us wondering if he actually would. Then they pull the rug. Left door open for a series return someday perhaps.

Loved the end. Felt like a proper goodbye. Resolved. Bittersweet. Axe and Chuck basically back where they started and where they’re happiest and in their element

Wendy, Taylor and the girl who went vagabonding all finally chose their real dreams over just money chasing. Loved that for them

Was happy when at least Wags stayed behind with Axe and all the traders who been there since the beginning. Basically axe capital without Wendy.

Great conclusion. Great season. Enjoyed it a lot

I’ll miss that opening intro of the NYC skyline

Goodbye Billions

Pretty much as the title says. I am sure her job is basically to get people to work regardless of how they feel about it.

Such an undercooked character development.

I rarely rewatch shows but I am rewatching Billions currently and my goodness the writing on this show, phenomenal. I’m a bit older now compared to when I watched it in my early 20’s and this show is so layered. There is also some foreshadowing in this shows. Especially in season 1 after the Bach and Dollar Bill leave Rhoades and his team absolutely perplexed, Bach tells Axelrod that he can get away with a small fine and that’ll be the best deal he ever gets. 😅

Currently on season 1. I’m gonna re-run a lot of shows as well. Westworld, Black Mirror, AOT. Loving it.

This is easily one of the worst cameos in a show already notorious for awful cameos, but what makes it worse is how completely out of character it feels for Wendy.

A few seasons prior, Wendy mentions Rapinoe as someone she views as a hero and would love to meet. However, the show constantly builds Wendy up as a mythical operator whose reputation and influence extend far beyond the hedge fund world:

• She’s treated as the secret sauce behind Bobby Axelrod’s success.
• She sleeps with the Elon Musk stand-in after consulting for his space program.
• Price keeps her on board specifically because of her elite performance coaching reputation.

Given the tier of high-powered, world-class figures she moves among and influences with ease, the idea that Megan Rapinoe—fresh off a very public, much-maligned 2023 World Cup exit—is somehow Wendy's ultimate "white whale" just doesn't track. Sure, Rapinoe is a high-profile athlete, but framing her as the one person who leaves Wendy totally starstruck completely misses the mark. (Not to mention Wendy literally fought Becky Lynch in her office—another brutal cameo.)

To top it off, the writing for the sports world is terribly researched. Wendy says something along the lines of being the "head performance coach for the Games." Each U.S. Olympic sport is governed by its own independent National Governing Body (NGB) and runs autonomously. There is no single "head performance coach" overseeing all of Team USA across every sport. It's a clumsy line that highlights how lazy the writing had gotten.

The way tore down Dr Gus was hilarious, the way he turned from husband to Hedge Fund owner in a second with Lara was remarkable and the way he allowed Boyd to be arrested was so cold blooded. His only goal in the episode was turning his quarter around. He proved why his investors trusted him.

First 4 seasons are incredible. Some of the best TV and acting out there. Genuine issues genuine conflicts. Then from season 5 it just kinda limps along pointlessly till the damp squib ending. It's like suits... They should have quit while ahead. In future I'll stop at season 4 because season 1-4 are brilliant. Wonder why they kept going and why they ran out of ideas. ​

It was good, meh average who am i lyin to, what the fuck did mike prince even do wrong that he had to be stripped off of everything, I get it from Axe's pov he had to get that mothafucka down he deserved that right to ruin Prince, but what about everyone else?. Wendy for christ sakes just up and decided he was a bad guy, The nuke thing Prince talked at The Owl was just lazy writing to make the audience have a reason to hate this guy becuase there was nothing else in his agenda that seemed problematic. AND CHUCK for christ sakes he is a fuckin leach a parasite he just decided like WENDY Prince is meant to be taken down, same way he did with axelrod. Didnt like the show after season 4. Taking out Axe that was fuckin wrong, you guys just made him make a mistake because of his FOMO and he ended up bein part of a crime. CHUCK is the villain in all this. And my boy Bryan Connerty was given his law license back that makes me happy, i liked his character. Overall it was average it started being one of the best but then it averaged out to be well Average. First two seasons will always be the greatest for me, Axe and Chuck were a different beast back then. Yeah glad i am done with this show.

How much of the dialogue do you think are metaphors? I mean, the series is very enjoyable, a great production, but the abuse of the metaphors is exhausting, they screwed up the realism with this, nobody talks like that all the time.

I'd say is up to 75 per cent, at least.

S5;ep3

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I am 21M a engineering graduated and will start my corporate career in 3 months . But in these i want to find something that can make me a millionaire not in 3 months but these 3 months should be a clarity or reality check . Currently I am stuck about what to do , I cant think about anything currently which can earn me blind money .

Anyone who has started or has achieved it.... Can guide me with this ....

There are countless hedge funds out that there go long or short on stocks and it makes me wonder how many of them are basing their position purely on fundamentals, and how many have some kind of inside information.

Shorting a stock because it's revenue is tiny relative to it's market cap is "obvious" and probably accounts for 95% of hedge fund activity.

But I also imagine there's cases where one of the traders somehow finds out that that a company is going to win a contract or lose a contract, or their CEO is going to get indicted or something.

According to a quick search, in the last 5 years there have been approximately 170 - 220 fines for insider trading, and 100 - 150 arrests for insider trading.

As far as I can tell from the show he's basically some kind of blend between a real estate owner and a generic businessman. Yet somehow he is in the pockets of senators, mayors, judges, police commissioners and other high ranking officials.

He almost seems like a kind of "fixer" that is able to pull strings in certain situations to steer these people to make the decisions that benefit his agenda. He seems to have a very deep understanding of how "the game is played".

Are there people like this in real life? Like how do they manage to get so many contacts like that?

Billions creator duo present another financial drama in casino business in Las Vegas. It is Billions in Casino version with mafia corporation.

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