I didn't recognize or appreciate it when I first watched it, but Ira's spin on Axe's unwillingness to show his books into "emotional" damage was really an impeccable piece of lawyering.
It might except for the fact by season 4 it was getting tired because Chuck never wanted to really go after bobby because of his wife Cat and mouse But the quips as well got tiring They all started talking like that 😂
The show kinda fizzled out for me when his wife kept getting in the way. That and it seems like the show kept having the characters make one step forward two steps back approach which is tiring.
been watching this since 2022, on repeat. Every time i re-watch it, i learn something new - i see something new. It's gets better when you re-watch it.
This is what Shakespeare was doing. It’s less about back and forth interacting dialogue and more about monologuing to each other in a dramatic but unrealistic way, and it’s brilliant.
He’s so great at expressions. In the jail when he was heading out he had the original grandiose anger followed right up with a tiny smirk of satisfaction as he turned and walked out. I never knew about this show but his acting is a great reason to watch it.
Before coming to your channel I considered re watching all of the seasons of Billions. The way you put together these videos including the compelling soundtrack is so enjoyable to watch it satisfies the urge start over from da1. That being said watching the last two episodes of the last season continues to be enjoyable
I love this show! From the second I watched it. I miss it. I love how it ended. I was so grateful that Damian Lewis came back to close it off. Hope he and his kids are doing ok, RIP to Helen McCroy.
as a mixed martial artist, i always appreciated the opponents that pushed me the most. win , lose, or draw, i got better. and so it is in life. you have to find a worthy opponent.
Bobby and Chuck were great as they wraggled and combatted with their scheming and plotting. I love it!!! "What is the point of having f*** money, if you never say f*** You!!! I also loved me some Wags!!! He is a hooooooot!!! This show taught me sooooo much of what really goes on behind the scenes in American politics. Now I know why nothing gets done in Congress.
Prince attacked Axe as an opposition, but Chuck attacked him as a man. It got so personal. I forgot how deep Axe and Chuck got under each others skin in the early seasons
Honestly, the ripped up check gift is actually funny and oddly touching. Something you thought you’d never see again that someone else held onto and gifted to you is very cyclical
Chuck destroying a Van Gogh just to mess with Bobby is the most despicable thing Chuck has done. You can cross some lines and will be ok. But actively messig with Human history for personal gain is just disgusting
With the exception of Starry Night, all his other paintings are crap. His technique is fabulous!!! But the content, whay is depictet, of the rest is the most mundane shit. Van Gogh is SEVERELY ovverated. Rembrandt beats his sorry ass every day of the week
Not really. You have to recognise the reality versus the idolism. I think Van Gogh seeing two people fighting over his painting like this, would have cured his depression.
@@monkeydluffy8783 how rude for not liking the same as you? Okay.... I recognise he is a great ag artist, I just don't like what he painted. Are you gonna tell me my likings and dislikes are wrong?!?
@Liedson9000 no its how you worded it. I respect the opinion but bruh come on... at least put his credit where it's due. Am I gonna say gonna say his work is the best? No but it's still some of the best artwork of his time
Yes he never did but the writers missed a beat on that one. If chuck did for a season and came out on top it would've boasted his character. And to have chuck and axe work together to take down the ant man guy it didnt fit
Ou he did, he destroyed Axel’s good guy facade to the public, destroyed his shot of ever owning a football team and made him leave the country for over a year to avoid going to jail lol
@@pelu101that’s like getting beat up while getting a good hit in then bragging about that one moment during the engagement…Chuck lost. Clearly. NO DEBATING 😂😂😂😂
@@coolguylawrence except the post isn't about who won, it's about Chuck getting to Axe and he did. He hurt him a lot. I already explained how in my first post lol
@@pelu101 yeah I get you but chuck tried to beat axe and lost..all that does is prove my point. So he was a pain in the ass ..so what? In the grand scheme of things who gives a shit?? He picked a fight with a stronger opponent repeatedly and lost repeatedly.
Show had some of the best writing i seen once damian left its like they replaced every writer with unexperienced people. The delivery of the lines and wit, cleverness of the show was so good up until damian left
This was basically a tub of war over Wendy. Wendy loved the power she had pver these 2. Imagine your wife hooking up with the guy you were trying to prosecute lol Axe 1 Chuck 0
I could see if you said that in the last few seasons. Chuck just didn't like the rich and powerful being in charge...even though he was rich and powerful and in charge.
@@kapilchhabria1727 Or maybe it's because people see the hypocrisy of so many in government. They try to model themselves after God. "Do as I say not as I do". They'll commit every atrocity in the name of greed and control and receive rewards, promotions, medals, awards. You do the exact same thing in the name of self-preservation or self defence and they'll try to punish you to the full extent of the same laws they're being rewarded and praised for breaking.
9:46 doesn't make sense with his previous statement "I've lived as a pillar of rectitude to not have to deal with this kind of thing and still he comes."
The problem with these characters is that they are not cunning enough. They are too transparent. They say too much what they think, they are way too emotional. Never reveal what you think. Always keep the other guessing. Anticipate, play chess not checkers like they seem to playmover and over.
This show is so interesting cause we root for the billionaire over the prosecutor. Axe does illegal things that are commonplace for billionaires (insider trading and bribery) while generally being a good dude. Chuck abuses his power to seek vengeance on everyone around him while being a general asshole to everyone. Rich white collar criminal vs corrupt lawyer 😆
5:28 in an alternative universe which is likely not to happen, what if they accidentally kissed? I just think that under the exterior of such hate and tensions it's purely love and affection. 😉
@bexultanassanov1930 and lost in the end because he didn't take the win when it was handed to him. He would have been a hero for recouping 1.9 billion. People would think he walked on water. Instead, he lost basically everything important to him in the constant attempt to nail Axe and he never did.
Chuck is so damn vile and hypocritical but his ambition for power, control and to bring down those IN power is so damn invigorating. Axe is a billionaire prick who we root for because he appreciates loyalty and takes care of his own. BUT he does illegal trading, and absolutley hates when someone gets under his skin no matter how petty. These characters are so petty and hate each other but my god they are 2 sides of same coin and refuse to acknowledge it. 👏👏👏
Idk, we've never really seen Chuck be willing to go down if it means "taking care of his own". There's been times Axe was literally willing to risk his life for Wags and lose everything for Wendy. There was always that little extra loyalty that Axe had that Chuck just didn't possess. NOBODY was off limits from being used or collateral if it meant Chuck achieving his end goal.
So if you set up a shop in the forest, hire staff, market to customers, encourage them to come and customers come, you didn’t help create the jobs. Customers would have magically turned up there with no shop? Lol
@@markmiller6111 @markmiller6111 no one said the owner didn't help, but without customers, the owner of the shop doesn't have money, and without money, the owner can't pay for labor. Demand dictates product and service consumption. No one would set up a shop in the forest, unless people were already going to the forest in search of a product, experience, service. Ask yourself this would the owner want to start a shop where consumers need the product, or where consumers don't need the product.
@@matt23151 lmao ok. The owner created the customers by setting up shop. The owner took all the risk, the customers are just there for their benefit. 95% of startups fail. You see successful businesses and get jealous of their success and lucky owner taking advantage of workers and customers, but for every one that succeeds, 19 fail. Or maybe more than that. There will always be demand (customers), if you’re willing to take the risk and have the foresight to be able to create the supply, and either take advantage of existing demand or create new demands, then of course you’ll be rewarded for it. And yes the owner can either create demand or take advantage of existing demand. Nobody demanded for smart phones, Steve jobs created one that was user friendly enough and suddenly it was in demand. Same with computers. And probably now the same with electric cars. Or you could take advantage of existing demand. Maybe a village in Africa don’t have electricity or water supply. Without it, they’re screwed. You as the owner takes the risk of setting up supply over there, and suddenly you created a mutually beneficial transaction between you and the customers. But that transaction wouldn’t have been possible without you. There’s demand everywhere, it’s up to the owners to identify those and provide the supply.
@@matt23151 The ability to market the product you created is part of the reasons why owner are important and valued. Customers are always out there, being able to talk to them is on you.
Basically something that would have ruined his life earlier in the series Axe mentions that he's gonna find the tiny little thread that Chuck left behind the one thing that could ruin his entire life and he was gonna pull and pull and pull on it until and unravel his entire life. That's what was on the USB drive.
Axe is a loathsome character, but I love him. Speaking in that concocted low, gravelly voice while wearing t-shirts that are a size too small makes him a complete bad ass with no equals. Amirite?
I didn't recognize or appreciate it when I first watched it, but Ira's spin on Axe's unwillingness to show his books into "emotional" damage was really an impeccable piece of lawyering.
Yeah you don't see Axe at a loss for words very often but you could tell by his face when Ira said that, he was thinking "well fuck"
yeah you don't see someone pull a fast one over on Axe very often lol. he was at a loss for words
Honestly, one of the biggest blows landed in the entire series.
@@jlems56 Until Axe walked back in with actual damages 😂😂
I only also realised it now.😂
The term "Frenemies" expressed at the absolute pinnacle!
Paul Giamatti is amazing in all of his roles
Amazing Spider Man 2 would like a word with ya, bucko.
@@jamiestewart48Not his fault. The script was hot garbage
I agree. His ability to deliver dialogue is almost unmatched. The early seasons of this show had such exquisitely written back-and-forths.
Bobby and Chuck will go down in history as one of the greatest battles in TV
It might except for the fact by season 4 it was getting tired because Chuck never wanted to really go after bobby because of his wife
Cat and mouse
But the quips as well got tiring
They all started talking like that 😂
Naw man. Lizzo VS. The Buttons On Her Shirt.
right until the end where they teamed up.
The show kinda fizzled out for me when his wife kept getting in the way. That and it seems like the show kept having the characters make one step forward two steps back approach which is tiring.
@@54xImmortalsthe quips really did get tiring. Very. Tiring
been watching this since 2022, on repeat.
Every time i re-watch it, i learn something new - i see something new.
It's gets better when you re-watch it.
So true
YES BRO. For me I’ve been watching since the pilot released and I still rewatch it to this day
This is what Shakespeare was doing. It’s less about back and forth interacting dialogue and more about monologuing to each other in a dramatic but unrealistic way, and it’s brilliant.
"...when I pull a deal off the table, I leave Nagasaki behind". Fucking chills man, damn I miss this show.
This could’ve been an hour long, which it probably should be, and I would watch every single minute of it
"I need to take a closer goddamn look"
"sure, but it will have to wait, museum hours are over *for the month."*
I love that little dig.
"What's the point of having fuck you money, if you never say fuck you" can't wait to use that line one day 😂
cringe
That's a sort of ''pray''.
u never will lol
Same.
By the time you get there, you'll be too grateful to the people that got you there that you won't use it 😉
The scene of 17:23 keeps being funny to me. The way Chuck sprang back up like a Pit Bull is outstanding acting 😅😅😅😅
Well spotted 😂😂😂
@@callmemarvel298 I can feel the anger he’s experiencing right from where I’m sitting 😅😅😅
He’s so great at expressions. In the jail when he was heading out he had the original grandiose anger followed right up with a tiny smirk of satisfaction as he turned and walked out. I never knew about this show but his acting is a great reason to watch it.
The Bobby-Chuck bestie arc was great but too short-lived. They could've conquered the world together.
Seasons 1 and 2 of this show were incredible!
Before coming to your channel I considered re watching all of the seasons of Billions. The way you put together these videos including the compelling soundtrack is so enjoyable to watch it satisfies the urge start over from da1. That being said watching the last two episodes of the last season continues to be enjoyable
Two great actors! Billions is AWESOME!
17:27 I love that little smirk Chuck does after Axe mentions how affective Wendy is.
I love this show! From the second I watched it. I miss it. I love how it ended. I was so grateful that Damian Lewis came back to close it off. Hope he and his kids are doing ok, RIP to Helen McCroy.
I never seen this show but I’m going to binge watch it. The cast is amazing!
Hopefully you did. Best show ever
One of the best series I've come to know which has challenged me to work smart .
The level of intelligent exchange between both characters is what makes this show so flawless.
as a mixed martial artist, i always appreciated the opponents that pushed me the most. win , lose, or draw, i got better. and so it is in life. you have to find a worthy opponent.
Rivalry between two foes where it culminates in both taking out a common threat. Poetic writing at its finest :)
Chuck lost 8 million just to put axe in jail for one night. This mofo is crazy likenaxe
27 mil i thoughf
Bobby and Chuck were great as they wraggled and combatted with their scheming and plotting. I love it!!! "What is the point of having f*** money, if you never say f*** You!!! I also loved me some Wags!!! He is a hooooooot!!! This show taught me sooooo much of what really goes on behind the scenes in American politics. Now I know why nothing gets done in Congress.
I’m really going to miss this show
Chuck vs axe definitely 🔥 the best show ever. Any word on when the spin-offs air
Prince attacked Axe as an opposition, but Chuck attacked him as a man. It got so personal. I forgot how deep Axe and Chuck got under each others skin in the early seasons
Honestly, the ripped up check gift is actually funny and oddly touching. Something you thought you’d never see again that someone else held onto and gifted to you is very cyclical
Chuck destroying a Van Gogh just to mess with Bobby is the most despicable thing Chuck has done. You can cross some lines and will be ok. But actively messig with Human history for personal gain is just disgusting
With the exception of Starry Night, all his other paintings are crap. His technique is fabulous!!! But the content, whay is depictet, of the rest is the most mundane shit. Van Gogh is SEVERELY ovverated. Rembrandt beats his sorry ass every day of the week
@@Liedson9000how rude
Not really. You have to recognise the reality versus the idolism. I think Van Gogh seeing two people fighting over his painting like this, would have cured his depression.
@@monkeydluffy8783 how rude for not liking the same as you? Okay.... I recognise he is a great ag artist, I just don't like what he painted. Are you gonna tell me my likings and dislikes are wrong?!?
@Liedson9000 no its how you worded it. I respect the opinion but bruh come on... at least put his credit where it's due. Am I gonna say gonna say his work is the best? No but it's still some of the best artwork of his time
Damn I miss this show! 😢
Chuck blew up his life to get Axe and never did it.
Yes he never did but the writers missed a beat on that one. If chuck did for a season and came out on top it would've boasted his character. And to have chuck and axe work together to take down the ant man guy it didnt fit
Ou he did, he destroyed Axel’s good guy facade to the public, destroyed his shot of ever owning a football team and made him leave the country for over a year to avoid going to jail lol
@@pelu101that’s like getting beat up while getting a good hit in then bragging about that one moment during the engagement…Chuck lost.
Clearly. NO DEBATING 😂😂😂😂
@@coolguylawrence except the post isn't about who won, it's about Chuck getting to Axe and he did. He hurt him a lot. I already explained how in my first post lol
@@pelu101 yeah I get you but chuck tried to beat axe and lost..all that does is prove my point. So he was a pain in the ass ..so what? In the grand scheme of things who gives a shit?? He picked a fight with a stronger opponent repeatedly and lost repeatedly.
Wendy having to play Axe and Chuck's mommy 😂
Masterful compilation! Well done!
So sad it ended. Great show.
"Owh she have you well trained"
The best show series I've watched ... a master piece
I learned so much about business from this show
Giamatti if that’s how it’s spelled, thinned out REAL quick. Holy moly.
I’ve never seen this programme, but I truly need to fucking see it now 😂
Show had some of the best writing i seen once damian left its like they replaced every writer with unexperienced people. The delivery of the lines and wit, cleverness of the show was so good up until damian left
When did Damian leave
@@HandMeDeals When his wife passed he took some time off which is why they wrote him off the show for about a season or so.
they hated but i think respected each other
I watched this and it’s sooo goood 😂😂😂
11:45 dialogue and then Bobbys burn is maybe the best in the whole show.
It's not about the money, it's about sending a message.
Sooo good 🤦 I miss this show
Great acting - great writing
This was basically a tub of war over Wendy. Wendy loved the power she had pver these 2. Imagine your wife hooking up with the guy you were trying to prosecute lol Axe 1 Chuck 0
Lol. These two guys are frigg'n childish af. But it was enjoyable to watch their battles.
Love when Wendy is a Dommy Mommy and puts them both in their place.
What a show.
How many sticks were on that cold storage at the end.
Honestly couldn't see myself siding with Chuck at all in the series even though he's the "good guy". Always found myself agreeing with Axe instead lol
I could see if you said that in the last few seasons. Chuck just didn't like the rich and powerful being in charge...even though he was rich and powerful and in charge.
Technically he not the good guy he abused the system to raose his power ranks 😂😂😂 i always felt like chuck and axe were perfect together.
Because you aspire to his wealth and accumulations. But the funny thing is, you unlikely ever will.
@@kapilchhabria1727 Or maybe it's because people see the hypocrisy of so many in government. They try to model themselves after God. "Do as I say not as I do". They'll commit every atrocity in the name of greed and control and receive rewards, promotions, medals, awards. You do the exact same thing in the name of self-preservation or self defence and they'll try to punish you to the full extent of the same laws they're being rewarded and praised for breaking.
Damn, Winters changed after leaving the military
9:46 doesn't make sense with his previous statement "I've lived as a pillar of rectitude to not have to deal with this kind of thing and still he comes."
Gah damn this is a good show with superb actors
I miss them already!
This is literally the opposite of low stress trading, bruh.
I forgot how good this show was, i stopped watching it after season 5, i have to get back to it
How many Billions did Axe lose by hiding in Switzerland?
I remember he started owning 10B at season 1.
How much was left to him?
He kept 2B
@@bacchuslax7967 Then at least doubled it, he says that in season 7.
Axe always wins in the end he is the man
The problem with these characters is that they are not cunning enough. They are too transparent. They say too much what they think, they are way too emotional. Never reveal what you think. Always keep the other guessing. Anticipate, play chess not checkers like they seem to playmover and over.
It is basically a struggle between money vs power ?!
Imagine a billions crossover with suits 😮💨
@Billions ... Please do a recap on Karl Allerd😂
I hate the fact Billions is underrated
Did the actor playing Chuck change ?
It always annoyed me the fact that is not how he tore the cheque up.
If only these guys would shut their mouths
This show is so interesting cause we root for the billionaire over the prosecutor.
Axe does illegal things that are commonplace for billionaires (insider trading and bribery) while generally being a good dude.
Chuck abuses his power to seek vengeance on everyone around him while being a general asshole to everyone.
Rich white collar criminal vs corrupt lawyer 😆
She has you well trained?
Lol😂😂😂
Starting to like the billions!
Never watched the show, now I have to say excellent writing ! Huge fan🎉
5:28 in an alternative universe which is likely not to happen, what if they accidentally kissed? I just think that under the exterior of such hate and tensions it's purely love and affection. 😉
I'm surprise chuck was not on the show suits.
Problem us real billionares in real life are much clever
What did he give him at the end
Clearly, Wags never lived in Texas with that red ant comment 😉
Life time ban 😂😂😂...
Chuck should have taken the win and Axe the hit...
Chuck did the right thing strategically: Axe by settling showed that he has something to hide, so Chuck pressed
@bexultanassanov1930 and lost in the end because he didn't take the win when it was handed to him. He would have been a hero for recouping 1.9 billion. People would think he walked on water. Instead, he lost basically everything important to him in the constant attempt to nail Axe and he never did.
@@rpsnider85 ig he needed to know if axe thought that he did wrong
she has u well trained.
Chuck is so damn vile and hypocritical but his ambition for power, control and to bring down those IN power is so damn invigorating.
Axe is a billionaire prick who we root for because he appreciates loyalty and takes care of his own. BUT he does illegal trading, and absolutley hates when someone gets under his skin no matter how petty.
These characters are so petty and hate each other but my god they are 2 sides of same coin and refuse to acknowledge it. 👏👏👏
Great point ,well said !
Idk, we've never really seen Chuck be willing to go down if it means "taking care of his own". There's been times Axe was literally willing to risk his life for Wags and lose everything for Wendy. There was always that little extra loyalty that Axe had that Chuck just didn't possess. NOBODY was off limits from being used or collateral if it meant Chuck achieving his end goal.
Turbo's elder brother 😂
Wags is my favorite.
5:50 is how you know Axe is not a true economist. Employers/owners don't create jobs, customers do.
Matt you raise a good question
( The great man theory) 💯
So if you set up a shop in the forest, hire staff, market to customers, encourage them to come and customers come, you didn’t help create the jobs. Customers would have magically turned up there with no shop? Lol
@@markmiller6111 @markmiller6111 no one said the owner didn't help, but without customers, the owner of the shop doesn't have money, and without money, the owner can't pay for labor. Demand dictates product and service consumption.
No one would set up a shop in the forest, unless people were already going to the forest in search of a product, experience, service. Ask yourself this would the owner want to start a shop where consumers need the product, or where consumers don't need the product.
@@matt23151 lmao ok. The owner created the customers by setting up shop. The owner took all the risk, the customers are just there for their benefit. 95% of startups fail. You see successful businesses and get jealous of their success and lucky owner taking advantage of workers and customers, but for every one that succeeds, 19 fail. Or maybe more than that.
There will always be demand (customers), if you’re willing to take the risk and have the foresight to be able to create the supply, and either take advantage of existing demand or create new demands, then of course you’ll be rewarded for it.
And yes the owner can either create demand or take advantage of existing demand.
Nobody demanded for smart phones, Steve jobs created one that was user friendly enough and suddenly it was in demand. Same with computers. And probably now the same with electric cars.
Or you could take advantage of existing demand. Maybe a village in Africa don’t have electricity or water supply. Without it, they’re screwed. You as the owner takes the risk of setting up supply over there, and suddenly you created a mutually beneficial transaction between you and the customers. But that transaction wouldn’t have been possible without you.
There’s demand everywhere, it’s up to the owners to identify those and provide the supply.
@@matt23151 The ability to market the product you created is part of the reasons why owner are important and valued. Customers are always out there, being able to talk to them is on you.
what did axe give chuck at the end?
Basically something that would have ruined his life earlier in the series Axe mentions that he's gonna find the tiny little thread that Chuck left behind the one thing that could ruin his entire life and he was gonna pull and pull and pull on it until and unravel his entire life. That's what was on the USB drive.
Major Winter vs John Adams
Modern day Val Jean + Javert
Imagine Axelrod vs Fortsman!!!!!!!!!
It could’ve been called “Brilliance” instead of “Billions”……….
Best arch enemies in tv since Tony Soprano and Philly Leotardo
Connected by family, a lawyer v businessman...it's J.R. and Cliff Barnes redux
Axe is a loathsome character, but I love him.
Speaking in that concocted low, gravelly voice while wearing t-shirts that are a size too small makes him a complete bad ass with no equals. Amirite?
When they go low, we go lower
I personally liked him as major dick winters, and band of Brothers. he just seemed like a much nicer person
Why not be wired for insurance when ole Chucky is talking about the election and his favors...?
The sexual tension is palpable.
This should be on cornhub
Maj winters ptsd took its toll
Lewis could play donald trump so well
Now we got Chuck vs Axe, but what about Axe vs Taylor or Axe vs Prince?😅
This whole show was a psyop against me.
They owed me billions, they made this instead.
They still owe me billions
Of course, Axe got the last laugh...The first 6 years where the best. It should of ended after that.
Wags is such a Little twink boy for axlerod
God I miss what this show could have been if they kept Bobby Axelrod in the show and not gone all woke. Those 3 seasons are phenomenally good