David B Morris
Dec 21, 2021

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It honestly never occurred to me that one of the problems with Succession was it was too white. Sadly that seems a tendency of too many HBO peak series - they're either all white (The Sopranos, Game Of Thrones) or all black (Lovecraft Country, everything David Simon does) It's rare for a great HBO drama to find a happy medium. The only one I remember recently is Watchmen.

That said Billions was significant better (hell, groundbreaking) in certain representation. An argument can be made that Dillon is the breakout star of the series and I really can't comprehend why they haven't competed in the award circuit.

And if nothing else, there are twists in Billions. Sometimes the series is too clever by five-eighths, but that's better than Succession which barely manages one clever twist at the end of the season.

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David B Morris
David B Morris

Written by David B Morris

After years of laboring for love in my blog on TV, I have decided to expand my horizons by blogging about my great love to a new and hopefully wider field.

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