Duncan Idaho said:
I couldnt get past the terrible writing of the first season. Where Veep elevated profanity to an art form. And shows like "youre the worst" and seinfeld effectively used despicable characters and situations to create engaging stories. This show used profanity like a 5 year old that just learned he could get a rise out of his parents by randomly cussing or saying things for shock
That whole A.T.M. scene was just so terrible. It wasn't engaging or shocking it was just so ham fisted and terrible.
Ha! I've got a buddy that writes for Showtime. Did a few seasons of Ray Donovan and more recently has done City on a Hill. He's definitely wrote some of those lines. He wrote this which had some gay groups up in arms: https://tv.avclub.com/ray-donovan-a-mouth-is-a-mouth-1798177298expresswrittenconsent said:Duncan Idaho said:
I couldnt get past the terrible writing of the first season. Where Veep elevated profanity to an art form. And shows like "youre the worst" and seinfeld effectively used despicable characters and situations to create engaging stories. This show used profanity like a 5 year old that just learned he could get a rise out of his parents by randomly cussing or saying things for shock
That whole A.T.M. scene was just so terrible. It wasn't engaging or shocking it was just so ham fisted and terrible.
Fairly accurate description of the difference btwn HBO shows and Showtime originals. I think their stuff is getting better, though. They used to only be about 50% as good as an equivalent HBO show but now they are up to probably 85% as good as an HBO show. They've moved in ~5 years from Arli$$ phase to Entourage phase.
need to watch successionac04 said:
i thought billions was pretty good until i saw succession, which blows it out of the water. billions is kind of like entourage for finance bros. mostly mindless garbage, but usually entertaining.
I gave up on Succession. It appears to be just a comedy with little drama/suspense. If that's what you are looking for, Succession may be for you. Just not me.Quote:
i thought billions was pretty good until i saw succession, which blows it out of the water. billions is kind of like entourage for finance bros. mostly mindless garbage, but usually entertaining.
Bunk Moreland said:
Feel free to disagree, and please don't make any decision on what you want to watch and enjoy solely off the opinions of that ******* Bunk.
It's turned into an extended Roadrunner cartoon, with Paul Giamatti playing Wile E. Coyote. Gets the evil roadrunner billionaire in his grasp, only to see him escape at the end. Every time.ChipFTAC01 said:
Sad to see how the season ended. Given the circumstances they should have just wrapped the show up.
Sounds like 5 years and done has always been his plan, although I imagine the personal stuff removed any chance of him changing his mind.Hey Nav said:
Damian's spouse of 14 years died in April. They had a son and daughter. Would seem pretty likely he needs some down time.
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But after 60 episodes of elaborate, at times inscrutable schemes, and of Chuck and Axe squaring off in various configurations, Lewis was ready to move on.
"It's difficult to keep mining, creatively," he said. "We know who he is."
And after six years of spending months at a time in New York filming "Billions," he plans to stick close to home and to his two teenage children after "we had a sadness in our family," he said, referring to McCrory's death, at 52, from cancer.
It's a subject he's reluctant to talk about, his normal expansiveness giving way to terse responses. He wants to remain in London for the foreseeable future for "obvious reasons," he said. "It is self-evident."
Lewis said McCrory's death did not explain his departure from "Billions." He initially signed on for five seasons and "always just assumed that would be enough," he said. Koppelman said the show, which premiered in 2016, had been building toward Axe's departure for several years.
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Over five seasons on the pulpy markets-and-machers drama, Axe embodied the culture's often contradictory feelings about the superrich. A self-made, self-described capitalist monster, he shamelessly destroyed anything careers, lives, entire towns that got between him and his next billion. But he did so with enviable audacity and panache, with an equally alluring penthouse-and-private-jet lifestyle.
"When I'm walking down the street in New York, it's: 'Axe, you the man!'" Lewis said. "He's a really despicable human being, but no one seems to care."
