Yep, George has found Jesus, and he can’t wait to share the Good News with dear old dad. Wags: “You ever try talking to a 14-year-old girl on FaceTime?Īxe: “Goddamn hope that was one of your kids.”Įventually, Wags reconnects with his eldest son, George (Ian Colletti), whose telltale cross necklace hints at a careful-what-you-wish-for twist. But he’s learning very quickly that being a “paterfamilias” isn’t a role you can slip on and off when it’s convenient, as he discovers during this killer exchange: Despite being an absentee father, Wags, seeing the lengths Axe will go to keep his own son from being expelled from prep school, is now determined to fix his relationships with all of his children. The main story of “Beg, Bribe, Bully,” written by consulting producer and author Ben Mezrich, focuses on Axe, but personally, I think the understated subplot involving Wags – the one that kicked off last week with the revelation that his daughter is now a stripper - will end up being the more poignant one. A very strained family get-together at the Rhoades Brooklyn home - Chuck convinces Wendy to play along by promising to unfreeze her assets - sets things right from Senior’s perspective: “The check is in the mail, sonny.” But all it really does is prove once again that Senior is pulling all of the strings, even with the people who don’t want to be a part of the family anymore. When Chuck confronts his father about it, Senior lays the shame on thick: Turns out Chuck hasn’t been terribly welcoming toward Roxanne and Willow. Unfortunately, there’s a bit of a stain on the Rhoades name up in New Haven, given that a promised endowment from Senior has gone unpaid. As part of his self-improvement regimen, Chuck has accepted a visiting professor position at his alma mater, Yale Law School. ![]() But don’t think for a moment these blue bloods are on the road to familial harmony. ![]() Since the decades of toxicity between Chuck and Charles Senior is well-trodden Billions territory, the Rhoades family cedes the center stage this episode to the Axelrods. It’s more about examining the depth of harm passed from father to son, and how the father’s unwillingness to repair the damage stemming from their poor parenting choices ensures the next generation’s continuance of these destructive patterns. In Billions, however, nothing is ever as simple as a son carving out a separate path from his father. Before we even set eyes on any character in “Beg, Bribe, Bully,” the opening track, Cat Stevens’s classic “ Father and Son,” has already laid out tonight’s theme.
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