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Billions: Cold Storage (2022)
Thank you for ruining a great series.
I know that last year Billions could have come to its logical end, but they decided to place their bets on Mike Prince replacing Axe as the bad man. But they didn't want him to be a bad man, just a good man who sometimes does bad things. It didn't work.
I know that the writers and creators are deep rooted in liberalism and have to remind us every episode (Elon, Watergate, Nixon) but to try and legitimize the episode with references to George Carlin and the flip were just plain tired. The literary Easter Eggs don't resonate as they once did.
They've basically turned Rian into a Monica Lewinsky type but the stuff ain't flying. And to think that someone is going to bet their fortune with a 10 figure crash and take the hit is unrealistic. Billionaires don't stay billionaires for long by losing so much of their net worth on one gambit.
Wags and Wendy have been written as shells of their former characters. Chuck may be right in his assumptions about Prince but he's just becoming an obsessed Ahab. I gave the series plenty of time and we way to find its new footing, but instead they just jumped the shark and got chopped up .
Billions: The Big Ugly (2022)
Cameos at ok, however...
Gayle King & Megan Rapinoe? Seriously? Prince comes across as sincere as Kurt Russell in 'Used Cars'. Mike 'Trust Me' Prince tells a tall tale and the politicos act like a bunch of hungry rubes. Barely the only thing left of the original show is the name.
Billions: Rock of Eye (2022)
I was hoping for a turnaround, but...
2 scoops of wokeness in every episode. The shenanigans that made Billions a 'must watch' in the first couple of seasons are ghosts of their former selves. I keep hoping that the ripped from the MSNBC headlines would fade but it's not the case. I'll still watch, but maybe when I get to it rather when the show drops on Sunday. It's painfully disappointing to see a good show die a slow death.
Billions: Cannonade (2022)
Start the new season with a lecture
If I wanted to be lectured about 2A, massive wealth transfer since the pandemic started, environmentalists planting pseudo-endangered turtles, and hateable old white men of old money, I'd turn on the news. The only problem I see is Andrew Ross Sorkin as one of the creators has a day job on CNBC. Now, I watch to see if it will turn back into the series I used to look forward to seeing.
Succession: What It Takes (2021)
And so begins the slide...
Yes, I know the Roy clan is a metaphor for the Murdochs. The creators nary have a single likable character of the whole lot. Surprising that Logan heads up an $85 billion dollar news and entertainment conglomerate and can't decide to call a doctor to treat a UTI, much less name a successor to the throne. Now, take a cognitively impaired one-term president, nickname him 'the Raisin', then flip his D to an R. 15 minutes ago, the company was about to be taken over in a proxy battle, an suddenly they're at a CPAC-esque conference to knight a president? Instead of another old white-haired guy, they go with the 'little d Democrat' who just left his job from a cable news outlet. I was watching last night like it was an episode of SNL from 2008. Scatter in a few borrowed bits of dialog from Billions, and that was the episode. I'm disappointed because instead of crafting a story, they are starting to resort to low-hanging fruit witty punchlines. I'll see if this episode is an anomaly if they end the season strong in the last 3 episodes.
The Blacklist: Captain Kidd (No. 96) (2021)
Dear Writers, I get it..
...You want to virtue signal the crap out of each episode, and that means we have to believe that the FBI task force is as lily-white as a church book club? Please stop because you're insulting your audience. I say this as a fan of the show and not as a hit-piece. Thanks in advance.
Shameless: Father Frank, Full of Grace (2021)
The series already ran too long, and then...
A crummy ending to punctuate its long decline. It was just a massive shark-jumping contest. Disappointed.
Shameless: O Captain, My Captain (2020)
A long, slow death...
It's a shame (no pun) to watch this once-great series die.
Skyscraper (2018)
It's a mashup!
Commando meets Jurassic Park meets Die Hard meets Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade meets Lord of the Rings - Return of the King meets True Lies. You could make it a drinking game as you tick off all the references.