Hello and welcome to The Recapables, a podcast on the Ringer Podcast Network.

I am Alison Herman, a TV connoisseur per Bill Simmons for the ringer.com.

And joining me on the other line, he is currently circling Lower Manhattan in a helicopter

to recreate the Billions title shot.

It's Ringer editorial assistant Chris Almeida. How are you doing, Chris?

I'm great and ready to avoid cliches.

As are we all, except for maybe Sparrow's, which is the irony of that line.

But we are here to talk about all the Wilburys, which is the eighth episode of the third season of billions.

The next time you want to ambush, threaten, humiliate, or otherwise, fuck with me.

You do well to remember who you're fucking with.

It is the second episode in a row that was co-written by the creators Brian Copleman and David Levine.

As I mentioned last week, that's usually a little bit of a tip that whatever we're about to get is pretty important in the course of the season.

And in my humble estimation, this was a pretty big episode for turning the gears of plot.

Last week, they obviously cleared the board of what we thought was the biggest conflict of the season,

which was Axis trial.

And then this season, or this episode, we get a lot more board clearing on Chuck's end, set up for the rest of the season on Axis end, but they're still in the process of changing gears and

moving into a different phase of the season.

But what did you just think of the overall episode before we get into recapping?

Yeah, I thought it was interesting seeing how they were finally turning around the non-chuck

and Axe characters.

We obviously, in this episode, we see Taylor and Axe start to really come to blows for

the first time.

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