SPOILERS for the Season 4 finale of Billions.

I only got into Billions this year, when Showtime aired a multi-season marathon and I got hopelessly addicted. The show started out as a look at the bro-culture of high-risk/high-reward capital hedge funds and the scratchy ethical and legal lines they cross all the time. Paul Giamatti is the prosecutor who spent three seasons trying to take down Bobby Axelrod, the mega-rich hedge funder played by Damian Lewis. Both characters were drowning in toxicity, and the show really needed a different energy, a “third heat,” if you will. The show found that third heat with Asia Kate Dillion, the nonbinary actor playing the non-binary Taylor Mason character, in the second season. Ever since Taylor was introduced, they have stolen every scene and become a huge fan-favorite.

So, last night was the Season 4 finale. This season was… not the best. It was too much about Giamatti’s character Chuck Rhoades and his shenanigans, and I guess we were supposed to believe that in the end, Chuck and his father would end up in jail for all of their bullsh-t. Turns out, it was all a complicated and utterly improbable scam which – spoiler – was a complicated set-up to get the current holder of Chuck’s old job, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Chuck also managed to get the current Attorney General. As I said, improbable. It actually pissed me off how many ridiculous flashbacks there were to show, Usual Suspects-style, all of the complicated double-dealing and added scenes.

The story with Bobby is that he was willing to knowingly sabotage his relationship with Rebecca just because he was so pissed at her “betrayal” by… working out a business deal with Taylor. So he utterly destroyed his girlfriend, all to get revenge on Taylor and manipulate Taylor into nearly a billion dollars in losses, so Taylor would eventually come back to work for him.

But the big story is that after Bobby helped finance Chuck’s AG campaign, Chuck is no longer on his side. Chuck ended up fake-arresting Taylor Mason and then he asked them to help him (Chuck) get Bobby. Taylor is like “what is even going on” but they kept it together. This whole thing was a giant set-up for Season 5, where Chuck and Bobby are going to war with each other again, and Chuck thinks his “inside nonbinary/man” is Taylor Mason. Meanwhile, Taylor realized that Chuck and Bobby are going to destroy each other. So Taylor is back at Axe Cap with their team and Taylor is sort of working undercover for Chuck but really Taylor is going to try to bring both Chuck and Bobby down?

This was a bonkers finale and basically, this is the reason why I didn’t watch the premiere of Big Little Lies 2. Should I keep watching Billions? This season was such a disappointment, but I’m curious about how the show completely shifted everyone’s loyalties to reboot the show for the next season. I don’t know. I probably will watch. For Taylor.

PS… I didn’t even talk about Wendy because I’m still f–king mad at her. I can’t believe she still gets to keep her medical license after that profoundly unethical sh-t she pulled.

Photos courtesy of Billions/Showtime.