‘Billions’ Finale: How Axe, Chuck, Wendy, Taylor, Wags and More Find Their Way Home After 7 Seasons
variety.comCynthia Littleton Business Editor “Billions” ends where it began. At the close of “Admirals Fund,” Episode 12 of Season 7 and the series finale of the Showtime drama series, Bobby Axelrod is scheming once again to make a new fortune with his merry band of alpha-male traders, who are revved up by his leadership to kill in the name of capitalism.
The closing segment of “Billions” was unabashedly designed to appeal to fans of the sudsy drama that turns on the crazier-than-fiction tales of hedge fund managers and traders.
Axelrod, played with gusto until the final frame by Damian Lewis, winds up on top. His most recent foil, rival trader/investor Michael Prince (Corey Stoll), has been publicly humiliated in defeat, although he is destined to rise again (“As it has ever been for men like you over the centuries,” Prince’s loyal confidant Scooter (Daniel Breaker) tells him in their parting scene.
As is to be expected, the finale features a lot of reflection between key characters on who they are as people — who they have been in the past and where they are headed in the future.
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