Billions

Billionaire investor Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) and US Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) lock horns again in Billions. Season 3 of Showtime’s Wall Street drama sees Bobby indicted for malfeasance and Rhoades tasting victory.

The series that runs on unadulterated hate is coming back to Showtime, well at least on the visceral dislike between the two characters driving the narrative. The very personal battle between billionaire hedge funder Bobby “Axe” Axelrod (Golden Globe winner Damian Lewis) and his nemesis, U.

With the Subprime crisis spreading suffering worldwide and rising inequality at the center of the political zeitgeist (and the current elections), it is no surprise that Hollywood has put the world of financial speculation front and center. In the years since financial Wall Street gambles threatened to bring down the economy, we have seen films like Margin Call, Inside Job, Wolf of Wall Street and The Big Short tell the stories of the modern day Masters of the Universe who sit in their glass towers and toy with our destinies like (greedy) gods of Olympus.

Television is in its golden age, and some of the best shows feature female protagonists reflecting the reality of women juggling life, love and work. A pet peeve in the past has been the lack of women’s purses on screen: characters walked about with no bag, satchel or tote in sight, something that every female in the audience immediately noticed.