Poor Michael Prince, he was brought in to replace Bobby Axelrod but just one season after jettisoning Bobby to some nondescript European city, presumably to never be seen again, Axe is back. Not only is he back, but front and center in the seventh and final season poster for Billions, pushing Prince to the edges. Making things worse is that Bobby is barely in the episodes given to critics. Another character that has not been seen in a while may actually have more screen time than Axe in those episodes.
But hey, at least Prince gets to open the season with a very
eye opening scene. Unfortunately that is
directly followed by a “5 months earlier“ chyron. That gets us closer to the end of last season
which ended in a high stakes game of chicken which left Prince $3.5 billion cheaper
and Chuck in jail, though the latter was short lived as New York State Attorney
General Dave Mahar bailed him out. Prince
would move on as he has bigger fish to fry.
After failing to bring the Olympics to New York, now he is trying to run
for president as an Independent.
But this is an end of the era. It has been announced that the seventh will
be final season of Billions (though Millions and Trillions are currently in
development along with versions of Billions set in Miami and London…
geez). And it is time to wrap things up
if they think they need Bobby Axelrod to save the show after just one season
without him even though the show had gotten stale with Bobby and Chuck going after
each other for the previous five seasons (aside from that one stretch when they
were on the same side). The show even
seems to run out of pop culture references, there is an awkward Nirvana
references early in the season and I was left wondering if they were cribbing
other shows’ with a couple of reference. Like most Showtime shows, this one seems to
be ended one to three seasons too late.
Billions airs Sundays at 10:00 on Showtime, though you can stream
episodes on Fridays on Paramount+ with Showtime.
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