Billions Season 6
Overview
There's no Bobby Axelrod this year, and the show doesn't pretend otherwise — it makes his absence the story. Mike Prince (Corey Stoll) is in the big chair now, and he tears down Axe Capital and rebuilds it as Michael Prince Capital, promising his people wealth with a conscience: no dirty stocks, no corner-cutting, a fortune you can feel good about. The catch is that he wants their souls during office hours in exchange, all team-building and radical honesty sessions, while Wags (David Costabile, still the single best reason to watch) quietly dies inside. Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti), meanwhile, has lost his favorite enemy and found a bigger one: the entire billionaire class. Politically homeless and personally bereft, Chuck decides that Prince's fortune is itself the crime, halo or no halo. It's a neat swap of engines — the cat-and-mouse game goes on, except now one player insists he isn't playing. Not everyone was sold on a post-Axe Billions, and fair enough; the show's temperature drops a few degrees without Damian Lewis. But Stoll makes Prince genuinely unsettling, a boss who smiles while explaining exactly why your principles are about to cost you everything.
