(The Limitless pill chaos unintentionally functioned as a midseason finale, which made it all the more hilarious.) The break finally ended this past Sunday, with Billions airing the eighth episode in its fifth season. The result was a 15-month hiatus for a season that was already completely written and didn’t have a natural place to hit pause before it was forced to do so. But the show’s latest installment was one of the stranger casualties of last year’s COVID-imposed shutdown of television and film productions: Billions had already aired more than half its season before filming paused. Season 5 has juggled a lot of dense, ridiculous, and twisty story lines-which is to say, it’s been a typical season of Billions. married his Native American mistress who just gave birth to his child he’s also in dire need of a kidney transplant. Meanwhile, Chuck and Wendy Rhoades, finalizing a divorce that was brewing after Paul Giamatti’s iconic BDSM speech to the public in the previous season, moved on to have romantic entanglements with guest stars Julianna Margulies (as a sociology professor who published a book on female orgasms) and Frank Grillo (as a buff postmodern artist painting on commission for Axe), respectively. (Luckily for Bezos, his brief journey to the cosmos fared better than Billions’ own self-funded billionaire rocket launch from Season 3 RIP, Bob Benson.) Not that Billions needs much inspiration from the real world for its fictionalized absurdities: its fifth season has featured Bobby Axelrod and his latest billionaire rival, Mike Prince, fighting over a shaman-“You stole my shaman!” Axe says in the second episode, which I’ll never get out of my head-and Axe taking a Limitless-esque pill that nearly tanks his company. Between the GameStop stock debacle and Jeff Bezos leaving Earth’s orbit in a phallic rocket, it feels like the world has been product testing potential plotlines for Billions for the past two years.
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