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That assessment may sound a touch milquetoast more of the same, but different!
And its true: If you likedBillionsbefore, you will continue to like it now.
If you didnt, well, the same idea applies.
Its fun to keep the game board mostly the same while swapping all the usual allegiances.
Its especially satisfying to watch Chuck and Bobby scheme together.
Now it feels like that energy is leaking out everywhere.
They are both shows about power and money, shows about terrible people who do heartless things.
OnSuccession, everyones paralyzed with fear, afraid to make a move lest they calculate incorrectly.
The characters onBillionswould rather lose everything than be too afraid to take a risk.
Keeping things is boring.
Theres a delicious sequence in the first episode of season four that leans into that ideology.
Chuck, ousted from his seat as U.S. Attorney, desperately needs to get back on top.
The precise result of Chuck Rhoadess wheel of favors doesnt matter.
He gets the gun permit.
Someone is happier than they were before.
Its a good place from which to start the fourth season of a show.
