Is there a degree when traditions turn into too conventional?
While they may give folks a way of safety or peace, they attain a degree the place the world has moved on an excessive amount of for what they had been predicated on to be related.
A disaster happens after they attempt to meet up with the world, however different folks have shaped different traditions.
We will talk about all the things that occurred on Billions Season 7 Episode 8, so should you’re but to get caught up, watch out for spoilers.
Events of the hour had been set nearly solely in a retreat for influential folks. The Owl was an everyday gathering the place males (till lately, and ladies) would let the animal in them roam free the place no guidelines of correct society existed.
And should you hear someplace the place there aren’t any guidelines, or they’re barely enforced, you may all the time depend on Chuck Senior to have some stake in it.
It was price noting that none of our central characters had been within the occasion since they rightfully deemed it archaic.
Chuck was comfy combating his fights within the forest of concrete, whereas Prince couldn’t be bothered.
Life has a manner of forcing somebody’s hand, and it did so for Prince. Even if he was an impartial candidate, there have been some folks Prince wanted to get on his aspect, not as a result of he needed to, however as a result of he wanted to.
Bradford: Dunlop’s burning up the observe forward of us.
Prince: I’ll catch her within the National earlier than that occurs.
Bradford: You will. But if she will get the endorsement of George Pike the 4th, you will not. Getting FaceTime with 4th is more durable than following Bernie Mac on the Apollo.
Otherwise, they might go to his greatest competitor.
And like a shark who has smelled blood, Chuck was in pursuit regardless of displaying little interest in the occasion earlier.
The Owl was … fascinating. From the second Chuck Senior teased it, I knew it would not be your common camp the place wealthy males strive an alternate way of life for a couple of days after which return to the comforts of their air-conditioned automobiles and homes with fashionable plumbing.
It was the other of what Ira anticipated. To take a piss within the bushes like a canine? Who does that?
One should admire Prince’s potential to multitask even when the duties should not simple.
It takes a sure form of man to place their emotions apart and assist their spouse (technically) save their risk-loving lovers proper on the doorways of the Chinese authorities.
Few folks have a maintain on Prince like Andy does. Andy was proper there to choose up the items when Wendy destroyed Prince by means of nameless suggestions on Billions Season 7 Episode 6.
And if she will decide up the items, she will fairly break him. When it involves Andy, Prince has blinders. It is made worse by the truth that he wants her. He wants her badly.
The hallmark of the retreat was the talk between Dunlop and Prince, and the subject was nuclear weapons.
I’m sorry, however may the subject have been much less juvenile? Seeing two grown and influential folks talk about if they might “shoot it” as in the event that they had been in a philosophy class was ridiculous.
If a hostile nation-state had been going to provoke, we knew they’d deliberate to launch. I’d be open to launching first to close them down to save lots of additional carnage.
Prince
No surprise Prince was not within the occasion. It was nearly humiliating to look at.
That complete occasion reeked of hypocrisy. Even The Fourth’s verbal diarrhea about democracy and the way the folks’s will was absent in politics sounded a bunch of nonsense.
What precisely had been they doing in that place in the midst of nowhere? They had been roughly selecting who the subsequent president can be. Was that the desire of the folks? What is the obsession with the folks’s will when the folks normally make the worst selections?
Chuck left the retreat with out having fun with a second of it. He did not play a enjoyable sport or persuade The Fourth to throw away his assist for Prince.
Yet one other day handed with Prince raking in wins and Chuck leaving along with his tail tucked behind his legs.
Chuck may by no means admit defeat to anybody, however accepting that he had no authorized avenues to beat Prince was the closest he would ever come to doing it.
Paul Giamatti can have chemistry with a literal tree, however the scene with him and Corey Stoll open air whereas Chuck and Prince had been taking a piss whereas doubtlessly freezing their nuts off was highly effective.
They say performing is reacting, and everybody shines with an important scene accomplice like Paul.
No progress was made in that brief interplay. No minds had been modified, and no stances had been softened. It was one ultimate fee of respect earlier than the conflict got here on full-fledged.
They stated phrases to one another that they might by no means say in an workplace or public for worry that they might by no means reside down the disgrace if somebody heard.
Intrusive ideas
- I purposely ignored the Wags’ plot level as a result of what within the literal hell? I by no means anticipated Billions to nod within the path of one thing like that fetish. I hope they plan to make a degree with this as a result of there isn’t any manner.
Chelsea: I get it. I get you. It’s simply so apparent; I’m stunned you did not catch up earlier than.
Wags: Catch what?
Chelsea: Wendy says. It’s plain coprophagia. It’s all about debasement and emotions of being unworthy, grotesque, after which needing to be liked anyway. And for you, love must be expressed sexually with that form of abandon. Almost as if I’m completely uncontrolled with lust. That I like you a lot that even your shit tastes like chocolate to me. Because your shit is you, and I like you.
Wags: Fuck. That clarification simply took me from javelin to overcooked macaroni noodle.
Chelsea: What?
Wags: Nothing ruins a magic trick greater than understanding the way it works.
- Did you surprise why they wanted a complete new tree to carve the owl earlier than you noticed what occurs to the owl after each retreat? Burning man? Talk about burning owl. It nonetheless appeared like a waste of a superb tree that took many years to mature for it to be destroyed in a fraction of that point.
- Bradford is a pleasure to look at. He expresses fears and disappointment in a manner that makes the meant recipient really feel it.
Scooter: Thing of magnificence.
Prince: I inform you the protection of what I stated at Teresa; I could not have written it higher myself.
Bradford: Sure, however guys, we won’t be handing out gold stars for some article that will get us a one-point improve.
The Owl was not a typical episode of Billions. It was neither good nor dangerous. Maybe extra of 1 or the opposite.
I used to be uncertain what to consider it, so I’d love to listen to your ideas.
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