It is about to be an unsure time for Billionaires. Billions, Showtime’s elevated cleaning soap concerning the cutthroat, dubiously authorized world of New York Metropolis excessive finance, is reducing Season 5 quickly quick after Sunday’s episode, the seventh episode of the season, because of the coronavirus shutdown. The remainder of the season shall be launched at a date to be decided as soon as manufacturing will be resumed.
Within the meantime, Billions followers can fill the Giamatti-sized gap of their hearts with a few of these different nice, Billions-esque exhibits. As a result of whereas there’s nothing precisely like Billions, there are a selection of exhibits which have one thing Billions about them, whether or not it is a one % of the one % New York Metropolis setting, twisty authorized and monetary dealmaking and double-crossing, flavorful dialogue, or a willingness to be unabashedly enjoyable that status dramas normally lack.
Listed here are six exhibits like Billions you need to watch if you happen to like Billions.
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Succession
Watch it on: HBO
Brian Cox, Succession
Succession is the present on this listing that is most like Billions, although it is extra of a comedy and way more important of the ultra-wealthy than Billions, which generally leans too far into way of life porn. HBO’s masterful sequence follows the Roys, a household that controls a worldwide media empire that is loosely impressed by the Murdochs of Fox. Patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) is outdated however nonetheless as ruthless and merciless as ever, and he performs his youngsters towards one another as they combat for his or her father’s favor and an opportunity to be named his successor. It checks all of the Billions containers of opulence, backstabbing, and operatic swearing.
The Good Fight
Watch it on: CBS All Entry
Christine Baranski, The Good Struggle
The Good Wife was probably the most Billions present on broadcast when it was on, a lot in order that Julianna Margulies is on Billions now. The Good Spouse‘s streaming spin-off The Good Fight is the one present that offers Billions a run for its cash when it comes to pure elevated leisure worth. It stars Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart, an lawyer who fights for liberal causes. However in contrast to Billions‘ Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti), who makes use of the prosecutorial powers of his workplace for score-settling and private aggrandizement, Diane’s coronary heart is in the correct place. The Good Struggle has crackling, clever dialogue that does not take itself too critically, identical to Billions.
Damages
Watch it on: Hulu
Rose Byrne and Glenn Shut, Damages
This FX authorized thriller that ran from 2007 to 2012 looks like a direct affect on Billions. Each exhibits featured season-long circumstances, slick dialogue, exact plotting, thrilling twists, and a symbiotic rivalry between its two lead characters, Patty Hewes (Glenn Close), a ruthless high-powered lawyer, and Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne), her protégée. That relationship feels like Chuck and Bobby “Axe” Axelrod (Damian Lewis), however it’s additionally like Axe and Taylor Mason (Asia Kate Dillon), his most sensible and unbiased worker. Additionally like Billions, which has featured appearances from heavies like John Malkovich and Mary-Louise Parker, Damages had an especially completed supporting forged, and welcomed people like Timothy Olyphant, Ted Danson, Lily Tomlin, and Marcia Gay Harden over the course of its run.
Suits
Watch it on: Hulu
Gabriel Macht and Patrick J. Adams, Fits
Like Billions, Suits is about two dudes (one wealthy) behaving badly however being very charismatic about it. It starred Gabriel Macht because the boastful however oh-so charming lawyer Harvey Specter and Patrick J. Adams as his protégé Mike Ross, who’s an excellent lawyer however secretly by no means went to regulation faculty. Hey, Bobby Axelrod solely went to Hofstra. The crown jewel of USA’s “Blue Skies” period, Fits is just a little lighter and extra episodic than Billions, however it’s a well-written and well-acted piece of legalistic leisure.
Dirty Money
Watch it on: Netflix
Jared Kushner, Soiled Cash
If you happen to’re like me, a part of why you get pleasure from Billions is that it triggers your self-righteous anger about white-collar crime. If that is the case, this documentary sequence offers you that feeling straight, with out laundering it by way of Bobby Axelrod’s charisma. Government-produced by Alex Gibney, America’s foremost chronicler of company malfeasance, Dirty Money investigates scams, fraud, and corruption, with episodes on Jared Kushner’s actual property empire, the Wells Fargo banking scandal, and HSBC laundering cash for drug cartels, amongst many different infuriating monetary crimes. Billions treats insider buying and selling as an unsavory however regular a part of doing enterprise, however Soiled Cash will remind you the way incorrect it truly is. Chuck is a ache, however he is proper to wish to put Bobby Axelrod in jail!
Black Monday
Watch it on: Showtime
Regina Corridor and Don Cheadle, Black Monday
That is the present least like Billions on the listing, however this comedy shares a fixation on monetary malfeasance and a willingness to take issues very far within the title of leisure. Don Cheadle stars as Maurice Monroe, an unscrupulous Wall Avenue stockbroker using excessive within the cocaine ’80s, till the titular market crash of the title. Black Monday, at present in its second season, has additionally been postponed because of the coronavirus, so you can get caught up earlier than it returns later this 12 months.
Billions is out there to stream on Showtime’s streaming apps.