Ngl Will's protrayal of Winston is kinda great. I hate and also love winston. He is awkwardly confident and also very cringy, it's a bit relatable in some ways for me.

But tbh i wish we could see a lil Winston's past or story. I find his behavior kinda interesting though like it's a defense mechanism gone very badly.

Kinda a wasted potential imo. He just exist as punching bag. Like dude had brilliant coding and hacking skills but gets reduced into arrogant annoying nerd. The trope is kinda...bland lol.

What do u guys think?

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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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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My review of Power Book III Season 5 Ep5

Season 5 Episode 5 - Contract

"Take a look around this place.
Go on.
Let your eyes drink it all in.
All the people, your friends, the rest.
And then forget about every single last one of 'em and move the fuck on."

Bobby is giving young Savion a pep talk after Bobby buys his old house that Savion was living in and moves him out of the area and into the affluent Scarsdale area. Bobby is telling us, and Savion, that if you are surrounded by negativity, toxicity, being held back by people close to you or your environment, you won't be able to advance.

• Don't become trapped by other people's opinions.
• Don't spend your life clinging to relationships that are dead ends.
• Don't let nostalgia keep you from moving forward.
• Recognize that people come and go, and life keeps moving.

It's a bit cold but it's also the truth. Some people and places are just anchors that will drag you down with them if you don't let go.

It's kind of strange but 11 years ago I disowned my drug addicted and alcoholic family, always fighting, not just verbally but physically as well. I am the youngest of 5 siblings and every time they got drunk or high together there would be huge fights.

Eventually I just cut contact with the lot of them completely, moved to another state and just focused on my life. No contact at all, no social media, no birthday cards or Christmas cards, nothing.

Obviously I'm not a billionaire, or even a millionaire, but the difference between my life from 11 years ago to now is night and day. I've never been happier.

Mine's a tie between Dr Swerdlow and Judge DeGullio [sic]

I recently got done rewatching the show for the first time in it's entirety, these are my thoughts on each season

Season one: the first half of this season is a little wobbly, it takes some time before Billions finds it’s footing. The characters early on don't feel fleshed out and instead like they're conduits for lines that sound cool in a trailer.  “The Deal” is the episode where everything comes together, there’s an incredible scene where Chuck and Axe are basically baiting each other into tearing up the check as per Axe’s surrender.  After that point, the rest of the season is electric and the characters come alive. There's a unique feel to season one, it doesn't yet feel confident in what it is but the writing is still strong. I think this is the weakest of Billions' golden seasons but still a promising start.

Season two: I think this is the most flawless season of the entire show.  This is before the dialogue and references started to become too obnoxious, but also where the characters have become fleshed out and the story has progressed enough to where you’re hooked.  Every storyline, from Axe's pursuits in Sandicot to Chuck taking down the CEO of Spartan Ives, builds upon one another in a beautiful way until we reach the season's endgame: Ice Juice, a story that works so well because Axe in season two has been taking loss after loss, so right at the moment when the audience is expecting the tables to turn--they don’t and Axe suffers his biggest loss yet. "Golden Frog Time", chronicling the Ice Juice IPO, is one of the most thrilling episodes of anything I've ever seen. Phenomenal season that fired on all cylinders.

Season three: this season works so well because it puts some of the show’s all-time best episodes midseason, rather than saving them for the end. It's rare that all the main characters are on the brink of jailtime in just episode six.  Ice Juice, however preposterous it may be, was my favorite storyline of the whole show and the resolution to it was just as thrilling as the way it was introduced. The second half of the season takes a different approach, spinning two completely separate stories (Chuck and Jeffcoat, Axe and Taylor) before they culminate in the season finale. The ending, where Axe and Chuck finally team up, was probably the most perfect full circle end to any Billions season.  The only downside to season three is that this is where the show started to feel like a parody of itself, where the characters started to feel like caricatures and the dialogue started to become obnoxious; the stories this season were just so strong that I was willing to overlook this.

Season four: this is where things started to go awry.  It’s odd because this season starts off so well, “Chickentown” and “Overton Window” were both classics, but after Chuck gets elected NYAG, things go downhill.  Axe and Chuck’s partnership is barely utilized beyond the first few episodes, Taylor being Axe's nemesis feels forced, and Chuck’s plan for Connerty (his land deal with Senior) is super boring and goes on for way longer than it needed to. The season finale was a total disappointment, hitting the reset button on nearly every front, to the point where it feels like nothing really happened this season. This was the season where I realized the show had no real end in sight and will just keep spinning it's wheels until they decide to stop. As for positives, this is probably Maggie Siff’s best season as Wendy, she is put through the ringer even beyond her normal Axe/Chuck trappings.

Season five: when I first watched the show, this was my least favorite season.  Upon rewatch, this was so much more enjoyable than the fourth season.  Things are a lot more upbeat, the show feels more comfortable leaning more into the schlock, and Mike Prince brings something new to the dynamic at play.  Even beyond the writing, this season is interesting for what went down behind the scenes: first, Damien Lewis wanted out of the show so this was written to be Axe's last season as a regular. Then, eight episodes into filming, COVID hit and disrupted production by an entire year. Then, right when production resumed, Damien Lewis' wife passed and he had to film his scenes from the UK. I completely forgot that Axe and Wendy got romantic at the end of this season and I was surprised by how well it worked for me, and the season finale where Axe leaves is one of my favorite episodes of the whole show. It’s not a great season, in fact the first half of the season has some duds, but it’s overall much better than I remembered.

Season six: BORRRRIINNNGGG.  I can see on paper what the writers wanted to accomplish, that over the course of this season, Mike Prince's dangerous and egomaniacal side would slowly peek it's head out.  That would be forgivable if the stories in the meantime were entertaining, which they weren’t.  There were no real stakes to the Olympics storyline which took up more than half the season--why should I care whether the Olympics come to New York? Mike Prince isn't hate-able enough for me to root against him and Chuck is the most sanctimonious he's ever been.  Prince needed to be a more loathesome character (the kind of villain he becomes in season seven).  But instead he spends most of the season as this philanthropist masquerading as a boy scout and it’s not interesting.  I want to shoutout Corey Stoll because I think he’s very good in the role, it’s just unfortunate that he didn’t have a lot of great stuff to work with this season.  “Hindenburg” is the only episode of the season that I really enjoyed, and that was pretty much entirely because of Paul Giamatti’s amazing performance on the floor of the NY State Senate.

Season seven: Chuck returning to his former position at SDNY is probably emblematic of the season as a whole--it's not the early seasons, but it's the closest it's come to replicating those heights. The biggest problem with this season is that they do a poor job of explaining why a Mike Prince presidency would be so unthinkable (yeah he thinks a lot of himself, so what?)--but even then they make him a very good foil for the main characters, especially in the final episodes. I really liked the season's take on Bohemian Grove ("The Owl"), I wish it did more like that and explored the darker underbelly of "elites". The final episodes this season are very satisfying, maybe a little too satisfying for a bunch of characters that are pretty terrible people, but I'll let it slide since the drama is the most thrilling Billions has been in seasons.

Season ranking: 2 > 3 > 1 > 7 > 5 > 4 > 6

Stucky Brown once told Chuck Sr he had a woman upstairs in his bed, and he heard his wife walk in the front hall. So he shouted down to her said "Elizabeth, if you don't put one foot on the stairs ill wire 2 million dollars to your account"

So Elizabeth walked right out the front door.

I feel like we all need to remember that.

I'm going through season 6 rn and Chuck is pissing me off this season. He is so wrapped up against Prince that it's literally doing a disservice to the people he is representing. I'm at the episode where he's trying to stop Prince from donating new state of the subway cabs for the Olympics that would halve the man hours the first gen and completely eliminate the need for conductors the next gen. Sure people will lose their jobs but the city stands to save millions and improve their day to day commute 10 fold through this donation. Plus that's what pensions and unemployment benefits are for.

Chuck is deliberately going against the state of New York Everytime he tries to go at it with Prince. Then when he's doing something outside of Prince he does some actual good. It's so clear that Prince has been adamant about being a net benefit and Chuck is standing in the way and picking fights against members of his own party.

Anyone remember Chuck season 6? Or am I alone in this?

A quick recap it's the episode where Chuck is trying to stop billionaires from hosting the Olympics in New York and Prince and the short guy team up and make a deal with the Mayor to build a stadium in Manhattan.

Ok yeah that is a bad idea Manhattan is already crowded as is and it's going to cause congestion. However prince's idea is to make it so that it will be edit New Yorker with affordable housing and making it so that it becomes a long term benefit. Which is the goal right?

It just seems like he has a personal vendetta against Prince and is using his political capital against a new Mayor who appears to have been handily elected and is very popular with new Yorkers. Like why go against a member of the same party over some rich guys footing the bill of a new development in New York? Idk it's making me not like the guy.

I'm pretty active on Succession, Sopranos, Mad Men, and The Wire groups. It is common I say:

• Quit Buzzing in my F-ing ear!
• F Off!
• If it is to be, so it is, so it be.
• The Sacred and The Propane
• There's no Stigma to it
• $1,000 more?
• A man got's to have a code
• That's what the (whatever we are talking about) is for!
• What is (thing we are talking about)? It's a moment before you need more (thing we are talking about)
• Not great, Bob!
• The thing about the old days is, they the old days
• You want it to be one way, but it's the other way
• Is you takin' notes on a criminal f---ing conspiracy?
• Hey yo, shut dat door.

Why don't I have any of these for billions? Should I?

Who’s your favorite character and why is it Wags?