A trip to an exclusive strip club with Wags doesn’t boost him up, but his spirits are raised when Taylor, on advice from Wendy (Maggie Siff) buys Mafee a rare King of the Ring poster signed by the Undertaker and Mankind. But while Wags talks through it with Taylor, we see signs that Mafee (Dan Soder) is coming unmoored, lacking confidence in the wake of Taylor’s successes and growing standing at the firm. He wants to strike back at Foley, and to that end has Wags (David Costabile) task Taylor ( Asia Kate Dillon, great from first scene and getting better every week) with finding Foley’s metal-ore supplier so Axe can outbid him, damaging one of his revenue streams. While all of that drama is going down, Axe is on a witch hunt. Was this all a test by Foley to see how Rhoades would respond? (A timely real-world issue that has dogged Mike Pence’s own political ascendancy.) That baggage is too much for Sweeney, and he backs out of the race before it has even really begun. In this case, that means having Ira (Ben Shenkman) dig up dirt on Sweeney - namely, that the candidate sent his son away for gay conversion therapy when he was 17. The arrangement is predictably rebuked by Sweeney, and as is so often the case with Chuck Rhoades, if you refuse his offer of kindness he comes at you with a rocket launcher. First, he offers the potential candidate a spot on the Rhoades ticket as his lieutenant governor. Chuck couldn’t get Foley’s granddaughter the clerkship, so Foley is backing another horse.Ĭhuck doesn’t like playing political games in which he doesn’t have an edge, and so he dismisses his dad’s assertions that he screwed up the Foley deal and decides to take care of Sweeney himself. that he’ll be putting his weight behind someone else, two-term Buffalo mayor Bob Sweeney (the great Matt Servitto of The Sopranos). At the start, it doesn’t look good for Chuck, as Foley tells Rhoades Sr. Much of the drama this week consists of discovering how Foley will use his power next. He’s also the guy who killed the Sandicot deal, as a favor for his old buddy Chuck Rhoades Sr. “The Kingmaker” refers to “Black” Jack Foley (David Strathairn), one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in New York, the kind of guy who can pull strings and create political leaders. Of course, if we know anything from Billions, it’s that neither of these positions of power will last for long. Eight episodes into the season, the fortunes have reversed: Axe is obsessed with figuring out how the Sandicot deal fell apart, while Chuck seems bound to be the next governor of New York. At the start of season two, Axe was undeniably up, rebuilding Axe Capital and moving forward, while Chuck was undeniably down, about to lose his job under the weight of dozens of lawsuits. Since the show’s inception, the central arc of Billions has focused on alternating power between Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) and Bobby “Axe” Axelrod (Damian Lewis): When one is up, the other is usually down. Photo: Jeff Neumann/Jeff Neumann/SHOWTIME
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