r/Billions • u/Rough-Razzmatazz1244 • Jul 30 '26
Metaphors
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.
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u/FrequentWire Jul 30 '26
Pop culture references, not metaphors...
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u/Rough-Razzmatazz1244 Jul 31 '26
No, metaphors: a figure of speech that compares two different things by stating that one thing is actually another, without using words "like" or "as" ( I looked up the definition). But yes, some of them combined with pop culture references, which I dont get half of them because I'm not from North America
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u/fresh_peetz Aug 02 '26
Similes are also metaphors. Metaphors are just anything that compares one thing to another. I am certain the show’s characters have uttered a simile at some point.
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u/VeryLowIQIndividual Jul 31 '26
Biggest problem with the metaphors going into the last couple of seasons was they were being used by characters that couldn’t related to them. Pop culture metaphors by Chuck Sr and 80-90s sports metaphors by Taylor didn’t make any sense and were not that clever as much as the where forced.
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u/skwirlmeat Aug 01 '26
Yes! It became overload; they seemed very forced, it’s not like they were particularly funny or clever. It f’d with my suspension of disbelief bcs I kept getting drawn out of it to think, “damn, shut UP”
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u/H_sentimental Jul 30 '26
I started the show recently and couldn’t agree more with 2 seasons already. Love the show since I had low expectations but the pop culture/metaphors or any sort of reference is abused like a high schooler trying to fill the word requirement on their essay. Especially Chuck…
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u/Reithel1 Jul 31 '26
Metaphors are plentiful, but still secondary in quantity to pop culture references.
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u/LongBullMarket Jul 31 '26
I like the use of metaphors and references in this show … except for when Lara makes a reference to The Wire and until somewhere between 4 and 5 where the show became a caricature of itself where there’s billions of metaphors and references and every character hearing said metaphor magically knows precisely what the reference is to. Shit’s annoying.
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u/osumba2003 Jul 31 '26
By the end of the show, there were so many metaphors, similes, quotes, and meta references that I was convinced the writers wanted to make themselves look smart and cultured.
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u/Opposite_Wind_7587 29d ago
Prince used the pop culture references more than anyone in Seasons 5 & 6. He did not use the references loosely like Axe and Wags in conversation but deliberately in place of real dialogue.
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u/headeast9000 Jul 30 '26
Spoken like a Jakarta lizard moth during the High Incan Solstice