For many young men, the imaginary dinosaur symbolized everything they were terrified of being: vulnerable, kind, and loving.
A generous reading might consider the show a corrective to the original, particularly because women, people of color, and queer folks now work the stacks at Championship Vinyl. A more skeptical take is that even this is morally suspect.
The series is a long, poisoned bath in male toxicity. It was one of the best new dramas of the year.
Billions is technically a drama, but it's more fitting to think of it as a dark, near-subliminal comedy about machismo and avarice, about what a surreal thing it is that so many people in power are really just jostling to throw their junk on the table.
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