Mike Prince buys Axe’s fortune for pennies on the dollar. The upshot of all the plot twists at the end of the hour is that Axe is gone like a complete unknown. Taylor vacillates from wanting to take down Axe - and helping Giamatti’s Chuck Rhoades in his quest to bring criminal charges against him - to actually feeling sorry rather than triumphant when Axe is cornered. In Season 5, Mason’s idealism is challenged by another idealistic newcomer, Rian (Eva Victor). The season end with Axe tricked into a deal with marijuana kingpin (played by Janeane Garafalo) who is moving both legal and contrabrand weed, which leaves Axe vulnerable to criminal money laundering charges after jockeying to break into cannabis financial services.Īsia Kate Dillon’s Taylor Mason remains a pivotal “Billions” character as Taylor Mason, the analytical genius who can spot profit-making opportunities from 30,000 feet but wrestles with their conscience and the consequences of such wealth accumulation.
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The machinations of “Billions” fifth season were characteristically complex, full of double-crosses, shifting alliances, below-the-belt punches and the wordplay that the show has become known for (a highlight of the season was having one character recite lyrics from Van Halen’s “Atomic Punk.”)Īxe is ultimately outmaneuvered in his never-ending jousts in the marketplace by rival billionaire Mike Prince, who tries to present as a kinder, gentler, socially responsible billionaire in contrast to Axe’s unabashedly carnivorous mentality. He responds, “If we can’t finish it, we can’t start it.” “You wouldn’t want the version of me that would go,” she tells him.
In the finale, as Axe plans his escape, he invites Wendy to join him on the run in Europe. The reality of the world they created is the world that is stopping them from getting together.” They were too much victims of their circumstances to slip away into the sunset. “They don’t get to have the sort of youthful unvarnished romance after all the things they’ve done and been through. “That never felt like a true ending for those characters,” Levien said.
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Levien said that they’ve also known from the get-go of the series that Wendy and Axe would grapple with a forbidden love that could never blossom. The decision to draw the curtain on the Axe character after season 5 has been about three years in the making, the showrunners confirmed. And just as soon as they did, the season ended on a gut-punch as it became clear that there would be no happy ending (at least not now) for them. For longtime fans, perhaps the most momentous Season 5 storyline was the gradual move of Axelrod (aka Axe) and Maggie Siff’s Wendy Rhoades toward articulating their long-unstated desire to be together.
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