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Bonus: This is Sus 10 – Billions, ep. 1: “Piss Dads”

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Felix and Amber review the first episode of Showtime’s 2016 financial crime drama series “Billions”.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody. Welcome to, I don't know what week this is, probably like week nine or ten of this is sus, but we've been on a little bit of a, I don't know if it feels right to call premium cable. I mean, technically these last two shows were doing including this one on premium cable.

0:19.0

Specifically the showtime network, but I think the shows on showtime network they need to be described a different way than premium cable.

0:27.0

I mean, this is, so we watched billions this week. I have an amber here to talk about billions.

0:34.0

Yeah. Thank you for having me by the way.

0:37.0

My pleasure. I like, I don't know what I would describe the show to. They're like USA network shows kind of better.

0:46.0

Like Felix and I are obsessed with USA network shows too because they're so like their own genre and they're so like ridiculous in a very unique way.

0:56.0

And this felt it wasn't as like as ridiculous as a USA network show, but it was closer to USA than HBO.

1:06.0

Absolutely. Like I always, so Meghan Markle always fascinating because I thought like, is there a better symbol of this era than a USA network?

1:15.0

Star marrying into a royal family? That's like perfect. That's perfect. The evil angle of empire in the USA network to get like finally merged.

1:26.0

Yeah. The USA network empire and the English empire. Sure.

1:32.0

Yeah. But like, yeah, no USA network shows are hilarious to us. And I always, I always thought about like a type of person to watch us.

1:39.0

I was thinking about like an old friend I had like 12 years ago. Like when I was a freshly-mended adult, I had a friend who he wasn't sheltered. Like he had a girlfriend and shit.

1:51.0

But he was like, dude, do you watch covert affairs? I was like, no. No one does. Literally no one does.

1:59.0

And he was like, the girl's a girl on it's really hot. It's like, pornography is like easy to find.

2:05.0

Yeah. That's such a like, oh, it's like a weird excuse. It's like, that's not why you watch it. You like this show. Like my thing is that I had my ex brother-in-law loved Bird Notice.

2:19.0

Oh my, that's the funniest one to me. Like, he loved Bird Notice. And I think he felt a little bit better about it because there was kind of a tongue and cheek thing to it.

2:32.0

Like it is, it was like a little bit self-aware. But that doesn't mean being self-aware and ridiculous doesn't mean you're not ridiculous.

2:40.0

But it was like, I think it's like the presence of Bruce Campbell gave him permission to be like, well, you know, I have some ironic distance from this show.

2:48.0

Yeah. No, you don't do. You love Bird Notice. You're a guy that loves Bird Notice.

2:52.0

Yeah. Yeah. And I always like, it's like, Bruce Campbell allowed a lot of people. I think Bird Notice was probably the most widely watched.

3:01.0

But then again, it's like, I don't think anyone's watching these shows. But then, yeah, you meet just like, does this as a people in your life who are like, dude, you ever watch suits?

3:13.0

It's like there are people watching this shit. But, you know, similar, this is why Showtime is the USA Network, like a Tonyer USA Network, because I didn't think that anyone watched Ray Donovan.

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