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Notes on - Billions: The Good Life

 

The Good Life notes

Is Axe really selling off everything?

He’s bicycling

They’re trying to sell us on the whole ‘Axe is giving up finance to relax and live life’ angle

Do they really do that light test on chicken eggs

Qunitillion to one. Axe is wrong, odds and statistics don’t work like that. I do enjoy a double yolker though

And now Axe is trading away his very expensive bike for Tito’s junker. WTF?

*** When a guy says sell everything, he gets a chance to take it back.

Axe is certainly selling that he’s shutting down

Wait, Dollar Bill is a volunteer fireman? How is he possibly making his call percentages? He can’t possibly live in the city then. Or maybe the writers just don’t understand how volunteer firefighting works.

It’s been a week that they’ve been investigating Dollar Bill

Kate: It’s an enzyme they’ve been testing out in Iowa. Genetically modifies corn so that cows can actually digest without antibiotics…

Terri: It makes them shit better.

Dollar Bill bribed the drug company regarding the cow enzyme in Iowa

*** Don’t tell him part of the story until you know the whole story

Kate: Um, are you still keeping that stick of deodorant in your office?

Bryan: Yeah, you need some?

Kate:… no…

Axe is cooking instead of Chef Ryan

New bigger boat is coming. And Axe is going to take the family sailing to the Galapagos

Lara is concerned about Axe’s choices. And he’s not considering her feelings

Lara: Did I miss us having a conversation about this somehow?

On paper, Axe’s plan to start relaxing makes total sense.

What’s the point of Dale and his ‘dude’ snafu?

Bryan is struggling to afford an apartment. Believable in Manhattan

I don’t understand what a guarantor is. Is that like a co=signee?

Kate is very rich. Did we know that?

Ah, pool sex. Thank you, show

Axe wants to take flight and be free. I get it.

Axe: I want to feel like that once in my life. Like I’m saying ‘fuck you’ to gravity.

Lara: Didn’t that guy die?

Axe is taking that woman’s advice to watch Citizen Kane, projected. She really had an effect on him

What’s the timberline

Wags is stuck having to explain to all the traders why they can’t buy. That’s awkward

MOW***  Then it’s a good thing your feelings aren’t a fucking priority.

Somewhere between Sir and Dude. Funny.

Bill got busted because he couldn’t not claim reward points

I just don’t care about the smug reporter

Chuck honestly hadn’t heard that Axe Cap wasa shutting down. He was too focused on getting him

Hey, we hadn’t seen Wendy yet

Ah, Chuck is trying to sound Wendy out to check if the firm is closing

Wags is honestly concerned about Axe

Wags wants Wendy to go talk to Axe

Wendy’s advice is solid. Forcing Axe to confront the reality of what he’s doing

I want to be Kate so bad

Chuck: No one quits while they’re ahead. This isn’t France.

Chuck is tagging along with Bryan to talk to the Iowa farmer. And Bryan isn’t wrong about the conflict of interest

***MOW:  You know, Mr. Bernstien, if I hadn’t been very rich, I might have been a really great man.

Wags is doing a very good job at making this real for Axe

Axe and his boys at the pier

Hey, it’s Hall!

Ironic that Hall is hiding himself with a fake gun game

Farmer has a cute dog

Dog’s name is Mr. Nice

Chuck is good with dogs and the dog likes him

Clayton Grunwold

Bill’s father was a farmer? No, Bill lied about that. I figured.

Farmer Clayton’s daughter has CF and Dollar Bill leveraged that. And gave Bill insider information about the cow shit enzyme

Chuck is really going for the throat. And Clayton is getting mowed down in the crossfire

Chuck: See, right now, this seems like a friendly conversation, but it’s not, really. Because we all know that it could turn hard in a different direction. And that there’s days that I would push it there. But… I like it out here. And the two of you.

So there’s iron clad proof that Dollar Bill  was insider trading.

I’ve also never seen citizen Kane

Weasel reporter is trying to pressure Lonnie

Kate really is awesome.

Kate: I should suck at bar sports. Because I was always studying.

Bryan: Yeah, but apparently you don’t suck at anything.

Bryan is having sex with Terri. Did we know that?

Kate toying with Bryan is priceless

Chuck is on kinkplayfinder. And cruising S&M clubs. That doesn’t seem good for his relationship

Drunk Kate is the best Kate

Bryan: Only people with money forget about money

They’re establishing that Kate has political ambitions

I’ve never read any Teddy Rooseveldt

God I miss smoking in bed while reading

Good on Chuck for calling Wendy to talk about feeling out of control

I love how non-kink shaming this show is. And good on Wendy for being supportive in every sense

Wendy as over the phone dominatrix is a good look for her

Ah, tasteful masturbation sequence

Mafee setting up the idea of setting up his own shop

The traders really don’t know what to do with the time down

Wags: A couple more days it’ll be fucking Lord of the Flies in here.

Wendy: I think it’s time for one of your offsite team building exercises.

Wags: Yo, bitches! Saddle up! Body sushi at the strip joint, on me.

Why is Dale doing all this field work?

I love Wendy and Lara’s relationship

And there’s the conflict of interest. Wendy’s at Axe’s house as a legitimate friend trying to talk him down, but it’s wrapped up in his work now

Is Chuck actually worried that Wendy is cheating on him? That would counterpoint his call from the sex club in an interesting way

This is real for Axe. He’s honestly leaving

Wendy: In each of us, there is another self we do not know.

Good on Wendy for calling out Axe for not telling his people himself

Dimonda the weasel reporter

The police chief quizzing Bobby on stock info just reignited his passion for the business.

Chuck is verifying that Wendy won’t be at the office. He’s planning to raid

The ship’s name is The Good Life

They just indicted the Ceo of the Cow enzyme company, I think. No, it’s a telecom

Ah… That was the industry Axe got out of first. So it looks like he was just dodging a bullet when he was really quitting

Axe looks like a mastermind now! And also has an excuse to come back like he never really meant to leave.

Wags: Holy shit. It was real?

I like that they let Wags understand the truth

And now the raid

And the arrest of Dollar Bill

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