What works well is the backdrop of the Bank crises and news. The shots of the city and news clips lift this drama and lift the pacing up.
The characters and plot is superficial, eg; cookie cutter hacker - i.e. 'Ghetto' black youth who magically happens to have superpower hacking skills - (about as realistic as having neuro-surgical skills), intrepid young journalist who works for wikileaks with a backstory, big boss who is scheming and somehow involved in the crises. The lead - a star trader, is unbeliveably leaden and unexpressive while uncovering the dirt.
Yet I can't completely write it off, as its an enjoyable watch for the drama is set against the news timeline and city shots which greatly lift up and add pace to the poor writing, characters and dialogue.
But this is a poor shadow, compared to the excellent 'Bad Banks' which has a similar trading team, but realistic and vicously flawed characters, more rounded and real ethnic characters, in act more realistic all round, with razor sharp written plots and subplots set in a thiny disguised version of Deutshe Bank with wonderful portrayals of corporate psychopaths throughout!
Billions is American pap compared to Bad Banks.It's not a fair comparision to this.
The characters and plot is superficial, eg; cookie cutter hacker - i.e. 'Ghetto' black youth who magically happens to have superpower hacking skills - (about as realistic as having neuro-surgical skills), intrepid young journalist who works for wikileaks with a backstory, big boss who is scheming and somehow involved in the crises. The lead - a star trader, is unbeliveably leaden and unexpressive while uncovering the dirt.
Yet I can't completely write it off, as its an enjoyable watch for the drama is set against the news timeline and city shots which greatly lift up and add pace to the poor writing, characters and dialogue.
But this is a poor shadow, compared to the excellent 'Bad Banks' which has a similar trading team, but realistic and vicously flawed characters, more rounded and real ethnic characters, in act more realistic all round, with razor sharp written plots and subplots set in a thiny disguised version of Deutshe Bank with wonderful portrayals of corporate psychopaths throughout!
Billions is American pap compared to Bad Banks.It's not a fair comparision to this.