On this week's Billions, triggers are pulled and Paul Giamatii gets kinky. My thoughts after the jump.
That is more like it.
Axe is a bit of a personal mess huh? I am pretty sure that he was actually having a bit of a mid-life crisis and not just making sneaky plans to save the firm. It seemed a bit too real. I think the biggest coincidence in the world finally shook him out of his stupor and brought him back, just to have the FBI raid his offices. Maybe he should have went with his gut and ran off on that boat. Imagine how pissed his coworkers would have been if he did.
Let's talk about Chuck and Wendy. Chuck is a bit of a mess too. It is interesting that his self doubt is happening at the same time as Axelrod's. This show is making their plights, while still different, parallel each other quite obviously and it will be interesting to see what the point of that is later. While I thought for a while that the BDSM angle to Chuck and Wendy's marriage seemed to be Wendy's doing, it appears as though it is Chuck who insists on it. He had the uncontrollable urge to hang out in front of a bondage club while his wife was at home. Yet, he is completely open about it and calls her up on the phone before he goes in and is told to kneel on the floor. What a strange and uncomfortable scene. (And to think that I could watch this while at work. Oops. Sorry IT staff.) He seems to have a belief that he is not in control of any aspect of his life, culminating in his unfounded fears about his wife being unfaithful to him with his enemy. He may seem in control when he is demanding actions from his fathers or assistants, but he is quite the shaky guy under the mask he is wearing.
Everyone seemed to let loose. Apparently Bryan Connerty, the guy in charge of Chuck's team, is the most irresistible man in the world. He was able to have drinks with Kate, go have sex with Terri upstairs afterward, and then immediately come back downstairs to flirt with Kate without any red flags waved. I am not quite sure where this is leading, but it was yet another weird addition to the show's crooked depiction of sexual relationships.
The office also went into mild "Wolf of Wall Street" mode when they thought Axe was going nuts. Wags tried to keep everyone on a leash and then eventually let them go and joined in himself. It was interesting to see how this episode allowed us a peek into what is going on under everyone's skin. Whether it is Wendy wanting to sneak into the second act of a Broadway show to relive her college memories or it is Lara Axelrod being wooed with some hot poolside sex, we are starting to peel back the surfaces of everyone to see how they tick, which we will need now that the conflict being Chuck and Axelrod is about to begin. I sense professional casualties on the way.
Grade: A
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