A Brief Review of Billions

Season 1 to 3 are strong. Kino.

Season 4 to 5 are a little dumb. Drags.

Season 6 is fine. Solid.

Season 7 is dumb but in a golden retriever kind of way so you don't really mind it, and reminds people why they are invested in the show by tugging on your heartstrings.

A few niggles about the show that might throw off some people about it.

Taylor Mason who comes in during Season 2, is a godawful hamfisted autsitic they/them in seasons 2 and 3. Becomes more human and more bearable in later seasons as they grow as a person.

Chuck Rhoades aka Paul Giamatti not only gets dumber and dumber in each progressive season (except for 6 and 7 where he stops being as stupid in seasons 3-5). He also self-inserts his BDSM fantasies into the shows and has his actual real llife young Asian girlfriend also put into the show as his BDSM mistress but also has her whip him in the show. Paul Giamatti is a certified chad.

Bobby Axelrod literally is a billionaire psy-ops to make billionaires seem human. However his eyes and ginger-ness prevents that because he likes to go bug-eyed a lot so you remember that billionaires are not people.

Mike "Wags" Wagner is a dad-bod Zaddy. He's great.

Wendy Rhoades aka Chuck's wife has much better chemistry with Bobby Axelrod and is possibly the most unrealistic person in this show. In real life she would be cucking Chuck with Bobby.

All the Black people in the show are the 0.0001% creme de la creme of the African American community. I don't think anything actually seriously bad happens to them at any point in the show. This is a good litmus test to see if you are actually racist to black people or if you just hate poor people.

Mark Cuban shows up a few times for some fricking reason. Skip all scenes with him. It adds nothing, if anything it takes me out it because I don't believe he's got the cajones to hang out with the characters in the show in real life because they literally might stab him in the kidney for whatever is in his wallet.

Overall, I give the series a solid 7.5. Worth watching if you ran out of things to watch.

Edit: Oh I forgot theres also mild anti-semitism sprinkled in whenever Chuck's father is in the scenes.