“Billions” thoughts, Season Three, Episode Three: “A Generation Too Late”

Written by Wes Taylor and directed by Colin Bucksey with all the wit and verve that is now par for the “Billions” course, this week’s episode continues to treat unchecked ambition as a metastasizing cancer that consumes everything it touches.

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“You want it darker, we kill the flame,” Leonard Cohen croons on the soundtrack; funny and fast-paced though it is, “Billions” likes it quite dark indeed.

If you put together these two lines from my review of last week’s Billions for the New York Times, you’ve got a clear picture of the show’s never-stronger appeal right now.

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