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I truly hope Jill and Derek stop having children.

Now I’m looking up Blind Faith…

I have no problem with kids as props. That’s as true of this show as it was for “Mad Men” or “Secession.” I watch adult television for the adults that are in it.

Maybe a published author or two can answer this question: When a book is purchased via Kindle, how much (what percentage) of that money goes directly to the author? Does the author get a bigger cut if their book is purchased in a hardbound edition?

We are going to finish out the season in penance for whatever crimes/sins we have committed, husband and me. The writer-ish writing is getting us down, and I mean to the basement. No other quality series suffered from that. Compare “Billions” to The Wire,” or “Babylon Berlin,” for example. Or any of them. The combination of that, terrible diction, (and the apparent e.s.p. the characters all have) spells viewer punishment.

Damn it, Kate, STOP MUMBLING ! Ms. Rashad’s diction is for shit.

Where has Spiros been these past two episodes? I need to marvel at his earlobes before I can get into the groove of this show.

^ Aha! When those “board members” spoke, I thought it was mighty magnanimous for the writers to actually give extras speaking lines. So that explains it. All you posters who are commenting on the various plot lines and their holes…I’m amazed you can follow it all in a logical way! I think I’m just along for the ride at this point.

* Rian has a bad case of vocal fry. * It’s about time Kate flew the coop. * Ms. Rashad’s line readings are too rushed and mumbled. * I’m intrigued by the idea of redistributing unused bandwidth. Could this happen in real life? * That was Campbell Scott, the same actor who played in “Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle” and “Big Night”? I would never have recognized him. * About those financial breakdowns: I’m guessing J. Jill or L.L. Bean would be considered downmarket by the traders. I guess that’s why I’m not one. 💸💸

^ Nobody “simply” has a billion dollars. How did they get it? How many women did they underpay, how much wage-theft was committed by hoarding that amount of money? This episode was, even visually, a breath of fresh air. So glad not to have to look at that red headed freak of nature. And Scooter’s pretty cool. The scene with Prince and Chuck in rocking chairs on that country porch…a callback to Abe Lincoln and Gen. Grant in “Lincoln.” Chuck McGill! The last time we saw him, he was engulfed in flames 🔥

The scrambled egg-making scene was a lovely tribute to “Big Night” (1996). Utterly bogus that Wag’s date would use the term “beta” to refer to Tuk. That’s how incels talk, not adult women. It takes 8 weeks to recover from a kidney transplant; probably longer, at Rhodes Sr.’s age. Get with reality, writers.

I HATE ‘bros of any stripe. Bayonet them in the ‘nads, I say. The bro-nads.

Bill manspreading all over Wendy’s sofa made me wish she had a Taser for his crotchal real estate.

I’m a feminist because I have a functioning brain. There is no “they;” if you’re talking about feminists, you’re referring to me. Men: Catch up to us. We won’t wait for you.

I’d wager much of that laughter was/is directed at godless heathens who are too sissy to smack kids around. “Yah! Watch this, you librul lamestream media types; you abortion lovers, n’ whatnot!” What hurts the credibility of this documentary is the constant use of the passive voice. “We were told…” “It was decided…” “There was pressure to…” The filmmakers didn’t press hard enough on many issues, and we heard no legal or Child Protective voices weighing in. Why the hell not?