Showtime's American drama "Billions", known as wall street's most popular TV series, has ushered in its fifth season.
Season 5 of Billions
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Season 5 | A total of 12 episodes | Each episode is 60 minutes long
It is well-known in the financial industry, with high reputation and large productions, and many financial tycoons have made cameos.
For example, the owner of the NBA Dallas Mavericks, the famous investor - Mark Cuban, the founder and CEO of private aviation Wheels Up - Kenny Dichter, the founder and head of the world's largest short fund company Knicks United Fund Company - Jim Chanos, and several Wall Street financial tycoons have appeared on camera.
In addition, there are the famous French food legend chef Daniel Boulud, the active NBA Brooklyn Nets player Kevin Durant, the Russian professional tennis player Sharapova known as the "most beautiful athlete", the Turkish Internet celebrity SaYango, and even the famous action movie star Lisa Ann & Cory Chase, all of whom have participated in the drama.
In the fifth season that has just returned, the world-renowned Goldman Sachs current CEO Solomon, known as dj the little prince, will also star - and play himself in the play.
"Billions" is getting better and better.
It is highly sought after by insiders, and the audience who eat melons also watch it with relish.
At the time of the first episode of the first season, it set the highest ratings of Showtime TV and received a stable ratings group.
The Douban scores of the first four seasons were 8.8, 9.3, 9.3 and 9.3 points, respectively.
The fifth season has just returned to the first episode, and the rating has soared to 9.5 points in one go.
The drama deserves it.
Many viewers called "Billions" a financial version of "House of Cards".
In particular, the setting of the male protagonist ax (Ax) in the play is reminiscent of President Shimogi in "House of Cards".
Also self-made, Axe was born a civilian, sold newspapers, worked as a caddie, and was able to achieve today's achievements entirely by his own hands and crushing IQ.
Every time Shimogi makes a big decision, he has to go to that small shop to eat pork ribs to relax, and the axe in "Billions" also has a pizza house as his secret base, and the relationship with his wife, just like Shimogi and Claire, is based on the premise of common goals and common pursuits.
Axe made his fortune from working capital and is now one of the biggest predators in the financial circle, in his eyes, money is power.
His greatest characteristics are that he is rich, and secondly, he is talented and ambitious.
His biggest rival was Chuck, the attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Chuck, from a political family, his father is a big man in the political and business circles, although retired, he still holds a lot of power.
For Chuck, on the one hand, he wants to handle several big cases and eventually rise to the peak of power like his father, on the other hand, he always lives in his father's shadow.
Politicians like Chuck, powerful and well-connected, belong to the people who make the rules of society, who stand at the top of the food chain.
On the surface, Chuck is fair and honest, a state civil servant who is "bright and upright, full of righteousness." ”
He refused to trade power for money, even his old father's best friend;
For those dog walkers who don't take care of their pets defecating on the ground, he forces the other party to pick up the with both hands.
In his heart, he is the embodiment of justice, and money and material things cannot be surpassed above the law.
Axe, on the other hand, belongs to the nouveau riche who dare to break the rules of the game and stand out among the civilians.
Not only did he break the rules of the game, he even went from gamer to game seller, and the law was just a dead letter to him.
Chuck, who guards the moral high ground, hates axe's unruly player very much, as if axe shakes his sense of superiority, so chuck is determined to dig out the trading insider of axe hedge funds and vow not to take axe to prison.
The game struggle between the two intensified, escalating step by step.
In order to win, Chuck even sacrificed all his wealth, family, wife, and even father to make a big gamble.
Axe, how can he ask for forgiveness in the face of all kinds of provocations, and for winning, Axe has an almost mad obsessive attachment.
Through their repeated open and dark battles, the screenwriter has given them a very rich character portrayal and profound classic dialogue.
Before people, Chuck has a super high sense of control and superiority, but after people, Chuck is indeed a masochist, very enthusiastic about SM games, and even addicted to drugs.
For the audience, this exciting hunting game is also getting more and more exciting.
In the fifth season, Axe and Chuck are about to start fighting again.
Even if the two are worried about internal and external troubles, the struggle will never stop.
Looking at the master's moves, it is simply too cool.