Billions (TV Series) Elmsley Count (2018) User Reviews

The best of enemies can sometimes make the best of friends.

[Cinefil_Original · 9/10 · 11 June 2018]

This was a pretty impressive and story-full episode that progressed both the plot and some of the characters in a rather fluid yet brutal manner. As I have said before, there is nothing I like more than seeing someone going against the mighty "Axe", knowing there can only be two outcomes: either the enemy (the snake I might call it considering the situation) gets its head cut off or the snake is broken in, put in a nice 'glass house', and trained to work for Axe. Either way, the snake will not crawl freely to wherever it pleases. Leaving that aside, it was delightful seeing the development that Chuck and Axe's character underwent, transcending the level of being mere enemies or allies of need. The 12th episode of the 3rd season of "Billions" is a breath of fresh air from the pollution that consists of mediocre TV series and propaganda they often carry. I like where this is going!

Loved it!!!!!

[tallyrepublican · 10/10 · 13 June 2018]

SPOILER: As a HUGE fan of this show, even I was wondering how they could progress the story now that Bobby wasn't in Chuck's crosshairs anymore. I am floored with the direction it's taking. The ending shot of them sitting down together had me literally cheering at the TV.

There aren't enough shrinks to go around in this wonderful series!

[insideout098 · 10/10 · 23 July 2018]

Season 3 was, in my view, the most impressive of the 3 for reasons I'll go into. Suffice to say, however, the first two were also excellent. What I really liked about the finale of season 3, Elmsley Count, were the parade of crazies going at one another like banshees. Chuck, a self-righteous sociopath, gets nailed to the wall by Jock, an over-the-top Texas caricature of a sociopath with sadistic tendencies while Axe, a garden variety Wall Street sociopath with empathy potential, gets screwed by his protege freak, Taylor, an extraterrestrial-like sociopath with a non-binary sexual orientation and objective thought processes that make Dr. Spock sound like the Pillsbury Dough Boy. Then there's burgeoning sociopath, Wendy Rhodes, a one time actual shrink with a once moral compass, turned money-loving dilettante with waning interest in anything but partying with the crazies. I have to say that while I can't stand Chuck's character, it was kind of sad seeing him harpooned by everyone he counted on to topple Jock, perhaps the series most repugnant individual to fit barely into the category, human. But I have to say I was most pleased with the reception that Taylor received from her one-time lover who was willing to invest with her, but would have nothing more to do with her personally because of what she did to Axe. I was literally clapping when he destroyed her sense of equilibrium. Her character is so annoyingly self-assured that only a large blunt object could make her come to the stark realization that logic in the absence of human emotion renders her emotional IQ in the single digits, if not zero. Even Spock had to learn that lesson the hard way. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE FOURTH SEASON.

Superb viewing

[Supermurph09 · 9/10 · 20 June 2018]

I always feel that whenever you watch something that springs a surprise it just adds so much to your viewing experience, the season finale did just this.

What we now have is a total change in the show dynamic, Axe despite the bravado is slightly on the back foot, the new kid Taylor feels like he's indestructible and Chuck who is just desperate to win.

Season 4 will no doubt be Axe vs Taylor with a very string side story about Chuck.

This show is superb, every actor plays their part, well done!

Great show, great actors

[simon70-42-738956 · 10/10 · 18 June 2018]

Looking forward to what is going to happen in season 4. Great ep, loved the final scene.

Excelente cierre de temporada

[mariofrombsas · 10/10 · 16 June 2018]

La temporada 3 no me tenía muy enganchado, pero el final fue excelente y promete mucho para la temporada 4!

A little over the top...

[albert-balvers · 6/10 · 17 November 2018]

I was a big fan of Billions in the first two seasons and my expectations were really high for this season. For me it is like The Wire and Game of Thrones have been picked up and set into the world of modern finance and hedge funds. But somewhere in the middle of the third season things got lost. Acting is still great, the locations are wonderful, music is cool - that is all not the problem. I believe the actors are doing brilliantly what the director wants them to do and what the writers tell them to say. But unfortunately they have become caricatures of the type of people they are playing. There is not one normal conversation here anymore. They are all so tied up in their uncountable conspiracies that it is impossible to still execute their jobs: earning money, prosecuting criminals, whatever. E.g. a type like Wags is completely over the top, and the same goes for John Malkovich playing the ruthless Russian billionaire. Again, acting is great, but the series is starting to look like a satire instead of a somewhat realistic show on haute finance. I hope they get it better in the next season.

These reviews are definitely fake, right?

[anthonyxxsxxtimo · 1/10 · 12 July 2018]

I've never seen a show go from so excellent to such a horrific pile of turf nuggets faster, and in a more polarizing way than this show has/did. I mean the first season was so good, the characters were bold, and tightly written, there was a subtlety to the humor that made it tact, and practical/well placed and balanced, and the characters had a genuine feel to them; like how Bobby actually came off as the sociopath he was for a singular season, and the self righteous sociopath Chuck was for that season as well. The show was, for a single season, excellently written and paced, and then.... what the f-?!?!?! Huh??? How am I watching the same show, why and how the writers assasinated all the work the show was and turned these once great characters into terrible, trite, cheesed up characature-esq driveled down versions of themselves. The cringeworthy thing this show became was absolutely mortifying to watch. At one point I thought maybe someone spiked my drink with the strongest lsd or something, because how could any producer even feel a 10th okay about attaching their name to this show, after what it was before what it became, which is total GARBAGE.