‘Billions’ and the Beauty of a Midseason Reboot
For as long as the Billions audience has known him, United States Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) has been scheming to become the governor of New York: courting Albany kingmaker Black Jack Foley (David Strathairn); enduring the unplaceable accent of a woman named George (Mary Louise Parker); stealing a laptop from his own dominatrix to ensure he couldn’t be blackmailed. Many of the indiscretions Chuck and his wife, Wendy (Maggie Siff), have committed “for the greater good” were in the name of propelling him to statewide office, where he could theoretically leave underhanded tactics like evidence-planting and record-falsifying behind.
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