Numbers start leaping off Axe’s computer screen and into his airspace, and Damian Lewis gets to sport a blue eye color that I’m not sure actually exists in nature.Īlas, no one does a jig, but Rian comes pretty close to taking the Blitzed Kenny Cosgrove crown with her assertion that she’s now fluent in Spanish. “the Limitless shit,” tosses the pills out to the Axe Cap employees like they’re candy, and all of a sudden, we’re in a 21st-century version of this Mad Men episode.
The Vigilantrix subplot alone provided several much-needed doses of laughter: Victor Mateo (Louis Cancelmi), in possession of a non-FDA-approved “productivity booster,” a.k.a. Nevertheless, Billions is still great, and “The Limitless Sh*t,” written by Emily Hornsby and co-showrunners Brian Koppelman and David Levien, and directed by Uncle Wagsy himself, David Costabile, is an excellent send-off. That would require a complete overhaul of the story lines, which, seven episodes in, is rather impractical.
That being said: Notwithstanding Todd Krakow’s magnificent career-suicide speech, in which Danny Strong drops a terrifyingly prescient mention of coronavirus, I don’t think it’s realistic to expect the rest of season five to magically take place in the 2020 as we know it. Fans may have also noticed that most of the cast and crew have refrained from posting about the show on social media over the past couple of weeks, opting instead to use their platforms to amplify the Black Lives Matter movement. While I look forward to seeing the subsequent five episodes of the season, whenever that may be, I do think it’s for the best that the current season goes on this involuntary hiatus. The parallel national moment of reckoning regarding systemic racism makes it difficult right now to watch a series featuring predominantly ultra-wealthy white characters who consistently evade punishment for their illegal actions, while men and women continue to be murdered by police officers for the crime of being Black.
The COVID-19 pandemic, which forced Billions to shut down seven episodes into its fifth season, may have been a blessing in disguise for the Showtime drama. Axe doing his best Eddie Morra impression.
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