Is there a degree when traditions develop into too conventional?
Whereas they can provide individuals 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 once they attempt to meet up with the world, however different individuals have fashioned different traditions.
We’ll focus on every thing that occurred on Billions Season 7 Episode 8, so should you’re but to get caught up, watch out for spoilers.
Occasions of the hour had been set virtually completely in a retreat for influential individuals. The Owl was an everyday gathering the place males (till just 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 possibly can 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 snug combating his fights within the forest of concrete, whereas Prince couldn’t be bothered.
Life has a approach of forcing somebody’s hand, and it did so for Prince. Even when he was an unbiased candidate, there have been some individuals Prince wanted to get on his facet, not as a result of he wished to, however as a result of he wanted to.
Bradford: Dunlop’s burning up the observe forward of us.
Prince: I will catch her within the Nationwide earlier than that occurs.
Bradford: You’ll. But when she will get the endorsement of George Pike the 4th, you will not. Getting FaceTime with 4th is tougher than following Bernie Mac on the Apollo.
In any other case, they’d go to his greatest competitor.
And like a shark who has smelled blood, Chuck was in pursuit regardless of exhibiting no real 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 attempt an alternate way of life for just a few days after which return to the comforts of their air-conditioned vehicles and homes with trendy 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 aren’t simple.
It takes a sure type of man to place their emotions apart and assist their spouse (technically) save their risk-loving lovers proper on the doorways of the Chinese language authorities.
Few individuals have a maintain on Prince like Andy does. Andy was proper there to choose up the items when Wendy destroyed Prince by nameless suggestions on Billions Season 7 Episode 6.
And if she will be able to choose up the items, she will be able to fairly break him. On the subject of Andy, Prince has blinders. It’s 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 am sorry, however may the subject have been much less juvenile? Seeing two grown and influential individuals focus on if they’d “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 avoid wasting additional carnage.
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No surprise Prince was not within the occasion. It was virtually humiliating to look at.
That entire occasion reeked of hypocrisy. Even The Fourth’s verbal diarrhea about democracy and the way the individuals’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 kind of selecting who the subsequent president could be. Was that the desire of the individuals? What’s the obsession with the individuals’s will when the individuals often make the worst decisions?
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 help for Prince.
Yet one more day handed with Prince raking in wins and Chuck leaving together 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 outdoor whereas Chuck and Prince had been taking a piss whereas doubtlessly freezing their nuts off was highly effective.
They are saying appearing is reacting, and everybody shines with a fantastic scene accomplice like Paul.
No progress was made in that quick interplay. No minds had been modified, and no stances had been softened. It was one closing fee of respect earlier than the warfare got here on full-fledged.
They stated phrases to one another that they’d by no means say in an workplace or public for worry that they’d by no means stay down the disgrace if somebody heard.
Intrusive ideas
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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 route of one thing like that fetish. I hope they plan to make a degree with this as a result of there isn’t any approach.
Chelsea: I get it. I get you. It is simply so apparent; I am shocked you did not catch up earlier than.
Wags: Catch what?
Chelsea: Wendy says. It is plain coprophagia. It is all about debasement and emotions of being unworthy, grotesque, after which needing to be beloved anyway. And for you, love must be expressed sexually with that type of abandon. Virtually as if I’m completely uncontrolled with lust. That I really like you a lot that even your shit tastes like chocolate to me. As a result of your shit is you, and I really like you.
Wags: Fuck. That rationalization simply took me from javelin to overcooked macaroni noodle.
Chelsea: What?
Wags: Nothing ruins a magic trick greater than understanding the way it works.
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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? Discuss burning owl. It nonetheless appeared like a waste of a very good tree that took many years to mature for it to be destroyed in a fraction of that point.
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Bradford is a pleasure to look at. He expresses fears and disappointment in a approach that makes the meant recipient really feel it.
Scooter: Factor of magnificence.
Prince: I inform you the protection of what I stated at Teresa; I could not have written it higher myself.
Bradford: Certain, however guys, we won’t be handing out gold stars for some article that will get us a one-point enhance.
The Owl was not a typical episode of Billions. It was neither good nor dangerous. Possibly extra of 1 or the opposite.
I used to be uncertain what to think about it, so I’d love to listen to your ideas.
What do you suppose Chuck will do with the losses he is sustained?
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