Similarly, the other employees at Axe Capital have hardly given up their vices: Dollar Bill still knows how to dig up dirt and Wags gets a joke in about "re-toxing." You might feel like the episode has more of a reliance on presumably safer-to-film two-person scenes rather than large-scale rumbles in public spaces, particularly the fancy Manhattan restaurants the show often turned into arenas of battle, but that doesn't mean the series has entirely pulled back on the decadence. He spends most of the episode targeting Prince because he's about to become an ambassador to Denmark, eventually derailing his fellow tycoon by digging up a dark secret from Prince's past courtesy of the mother (Becky Ann Baker) of an early business partner. Though Chuck might be changing his ways, Axe remains as consumed with anger and jealousy as ever. In the wold of Billions, progress is always incremental. Forced to clean up a collegiate election rigging scandal from his past, Chuck chooses not to take a scorched Earth approach. But the transition to a new phase for Chuck, one that finds him still attempting to reign in his manipulative tendencies, is handled without too much narrative throat-clearing. Yale sociology professor Catherine Brant (Julianna Margulies) appears to have exited the show, having ended her relationship with Chuck off-screen after an awkward threesome that was teased in 2020's " The Limitless Shit." Would the plotline have wrapped up in a different, less abrupt manner in "normal" times? Probably. That means Damien Lewis's hedge fund guru Bobby Axelrod is chasing a bank charter and attempting to destroy smarmy rich guy Mike Prince (Corey Stoll), Chuck remains obsessed with catching Axe red-handed, Taylor (Asia Kate Dillon) can't figure out exactly how to be an ethically ruthless manager at Mason Capital, and Wendy (Maggie Siff) is still dating an abstract painter who looks like Frank Grillo (played by Frank Grillo). Perlman, picked up right where the show left off, juggling schemes and rivalries with relative ease. Instead, "Copenhagen," an episode penned by writer Adam R. That means no immediate jump right into COVID-related plotlines, GameStop references, or elaborate jokes from Wags about the exquisite torture of watching Gal Gadot's "Imagine" video. But it also works as a mission statement for the show's writers and a hat-tip to the ever-loyal audience, a sign that Billions is up to business as usual. In the scene, the comment works as a sly reference to the change in actor Paul Giamatti's physical appearance: He lost some weight and ditched the goatee he's sported since the show debuted in 2016. "Don't make a whole thing out of it," says Chuck Rhoades early on in Sunday night's mid-season premiere of Billions, which paused its fifth season back in June of 2020 as the ongoing global pandemic halted production on Showtime's long-running finance drama.
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