Billions Season 3 Episode 64/15/2021
Both Axe and Chuck reckon with how far theyre willing to go to protect Wendy.The Ice Juice case comes to a head when a judge gives Connerty a difficult deadline.
The name dates back to when military field surgeons were required to wear suit jackets and needed to roll up their sleeves to avoid blood stains. Billions Season 3 Epde 6 Rar Performed BySinking Down (uncredited) Written by Jay Farrar Performed by Son Volt Opening scene, closing scene, and end credits. It would rather tell its story linearly and with litter interrupting. In its sixth episode, The Deal, however, it makes a pair of interesting structural decisions that reveal what is and isnt working overall with the show so far. It begins with a flash-forward in which Wendy meets Axe in some creepy bathhouse. He gets naked and enters a pool then invites her to do the same, which she does (cue: datass.jpg). We then get the chyron that every right-thinking audience member dreads: 72 Hours Earlier. Were supposed to feel curious and scandalised that Wendy would step into a pool naked with Axe. The real reason why Axe has Wendy climb into the pool is more interesting: because he wants to broker a deal with Chuck and presumably doesnt want Wendy wearing a wire of any sort. Its more interesting that Wendy has enough romantic trust with her husband and platonic trust with her boss to pull off such manoeuvres. And if anything, Billions is just selling one of its best assets short by distilling some of its more complex relationships into OMG IS WENDY CHEATING. Billions has made some curious decisions with its storytelling but one area that it continues to excel in is just how much interaction it allows between its main combatants. In The Deal, we get a moment that we likely did not expect until the end of the season: Bobby Axelrod and Chuck Rhoades in a conference room, talking to each other. At episode six, The Deal is just past the midway point of Billions first season and positioning a conference room confrontation between its two leads is not necessarily a paradigm changer for the medium of television but it is an objectively great decision for this particular show. Thankfully it does. The entire episode plays with the audiences perception of what Axe would and wouldnt accept in any deal. In the beginning, Axe gives a rousing speech to the Axe Capital crew after Bill Stern has been carted away by the F.B.I. Anyone of us could be next he cries to the crowd. Hes played a real-life, legitimate World War II hero in Band of Brothers, another all-American war hero in Homeland and now a Wall Street capitalist bro. But when he has to yell a line, you can hear some of the Britishness seep in. Chuck thinks he has Stern dead to rights when he finds out that Stern has a whole second family in New Jersey and if he wont cooperate with the feds, theyll tell his wife. Instead of cooperating, Stern says he knew theyd come with that and sends off a letter to his wife admitting to the whole thing. Despite Bill Stern going Keyser Soze and despite both Wendy and his father telling Chuck that Axe is dug in and ready to battle in the trenches for a long time, he doesnt want to make a deal. Billions has done a decent job of characterising its chief roles (save for a Chuck encounter with literal dog shit here or there) but the lack of characterisation that has gone into Wendy has almost accidentally created the most interesting character. She tells Axe she has a vested interest in him saving the company because she helped build it. Shes proud of it. And obviously she has a vested interested in her husband making a deal because hes her husband, shes proud of him and she doesnt want him wasting half his life on a drawn out case. Somehow, miraculously, that appeal to the pride of each man guides them both to that conference room to make the deal. That alone seems untenable but Axe is happy to go along with it. Then Chuck adds another tenet for the deal: Axe must admit guilt.
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