![]() ![]() Taylor: Prove to my fellow millennials that I’m smarter and wiser than they are.Ī handful of days has been enough time, however, for Corey Stoll’s smug deca-billionaire Mike Prince to be offered the ambassadorship to Denmark, and for Chuck and Julianna Margulies’s sociology professor Catherine Brant to have an offscreen breakup (turns out Chuck wasn’t a fan of threesomes). Wendy: Get my brooding artist boyfriend to accept his wealth, but not be corrupted by it. Keep staving off my Dark Passenger.Ĭharles Senior: 1. A quick primer/to-do list, if you will:Īxe: 1. “Copenhagen” takes place, about a handful of days after “ The Limitless Sh*t,” which means we’re still knee-deep in most of the season’s major story arcs. But also, let’s not forget, as I echo the sentiments expressed in Vulture’s recent Succession cover story, the inhabitants of the Billions universe are so stinkin’ rich that they can probably avoid being deeply affected by something as plebeian as a global pandemic anyway. We’d do well to place the action circa January-February 2020: The last episode, which aired in June 2020, managed to slip in a “coronavirus” mention, and there’s a telling line of dialogue in next week’s episode. ![]() So, does COVID exist in these new episodes? Kind of. But thanks to a little TV magic, Yonkers hometown hero Bobby Axelrod is still able to crush his enemies despite Lewis filming some of his scenes in the U.K. Speaking of those one-on-one scenes, an added wrinkle to getting Billions back on our screens after such a long interlude was the untimely death of Damian Lewis’s wife and Peaky Blinders star Helen McCrory, who passed away in April 2021. You’ll also notice a lot more one-on-one scenes in “Copenhagen” than in the past, likely owing to COVID-safety protocols. (Showtime confirms that two days of filming on episode eight, “Copenhagen,” were completed prior to the shutdown.) Production was able to finally resume in March of this year, and as a way of playing catch-up, Billions has been filming both seasons five and six simultaneously. ![]() Seven episodes of season five were shot before production was halted in March 2020, with five episodes remaining. No, of course it’s how Billions seamlessly jumps right back into a story that was written before COVID put the world in quarantine a year and a half ago. Just kidding - although I will touch on it later. Let’s address the biggest elephant in the room first: Chuck Rhoades’s new look! to join the Roys in what seemed like an interminable hiatus, Tom Petty and the Velvet Underground are heralding the return of one-half of TV’s favorite venal New York billionaires. It’s time to fire up those Boomer-rock playlists, y’all, because Billions is back.įourteen months after COVID-19 forced Axe Cap & Co. ![]()
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