What he doesn’t know (I think?) is that Taylor, who had earlier told him there was a yellow light for the weed biz, is part of Chuck and Prince’s conspiracy.Īccording to Taylor’s employee Rian, the light, in fact, is bright red. And when people like this talk, people like Axe listen.Īxe figures that the fight between Prince and Chuck was a ruse, that cannabis is soon to get the federal green light, and that the time has come to corner the market before Prince can do so himself. Supreme Court will take up the issue but likely rule in its favor. Prince is all for it Chuck is against it, but eventually bows before superior arguments in its favor DeGiulio thinks the U.S. The conversation eventually turns to the legalization of cannabis. He sends his newly loyal ally, Charles Sr., and his mole, Swerdlow, to crash the party. She tips off Axe that his enemies have gathered. Ira gives her a view of the room and affords her a few snippets of the conversation everyone is having about bank regulation and liberty or something. When he ignores her FaceTime call, she contacts Ira instead. Essentially, Chuck gives his estranged wife, Wendy, a choice: Cough up a lump-sum divorce settlement, or allow him to snoop around Mase Carb/Axe Cap’s books. ‘The Underground Railroad’: Barry Jenkins’s transfixing adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel is fabulistic yet grittily real.‘Succession’: In the cutthroat HBO drama about a family of media billionaires, being rich is nothing like it used to be.
‘Dickinson’: The Apple TV+ series is a literary superheroine’s origin story that’s dead serious about its subject yet unserious about itself.‘Inside’: Written and shot in a single room, Bo Burnham’s comedy special, streaming on Netflix, turns the spotlight on internet life mid-pandemic.
Here are some of the highlights selected by The Times’s TV critics: Television this year offered ingenuity, humor, defiance and hope. (When she tries to do both, Taylor fires Lauren, and Lauren dumps Taylor.) In the case of Lauren, Mase Carbon’s investor relations guru, she’ll have to choose between joining the bank or staying put.
Everyone has been let go … and some, but not all, of them will be rehired by night’s end for his new venture, Axe Bank.
Zooming into the office from his home, where he has been quarantined because of an infected private jet pilot, Axe announces that Axe Cap is no more. For starters, the pandemic happened - is happening - and the show addresses it head-on in the opening scene, half of Axe Cap’s staff members delivers their dialogue through masks.īut they aren’t Axe Cap’s staff for long. Viewed in this context, the omelet scene is an attempt to slow things down and capture the vibe of what it’s like to pull an all-nighter with a colleague, share a joint and then fix an early breakfast for your daughter.īut before we run the risk of slowing down too much ourselves, let’s jump right into the momentousness. There’s video conferencing and FaceTiming, as well as spirited dinner conversations, an in-office date and an intimate phone call. As the first installment to truly address the Covid-19 pandemic - it appears to be set after the initial quarantine stage, when people started making their way back to workplaces and family gatherings - it is keenly interested in the ways human beings connect. That this happens in the most momentous episode so far of the season’s long-delayed latter half seems like no coincidence. For these three minutes, it is slow cinema, a cousin to the endless floor-sweeping and glacial soup-sipping of its sister Showtime series, “Twin Peaks: The Return.” Suddenly, we’re miles away from the mile-a-minute patter and breakneck plot twists that make “Billions” one of the fastest-moving shows on television. In “Billions” time, those three minutes might as well be an eternity. For three uninterrupted minutes - without dialogue, without music, without so much as a single cut - the attorney general for the great state of New York cracks, scrambles, fries, flips and serves an omelet to his daughter, Eva (Alexa Swinton), and their guest, the billionaire Mike Prince.