Billionaire fund manager Bobby Axelrod is targeted by U.S. attorney Chuck Rhoades, who hates rich people.

Characters

Robert "Bobby" Axelrod

Damian Lewis

Charles "Chuck" Rhoades Jr.

Paul Giamatti

Wendy Rhoades, M.D

Maggie Siff

Lara Axelrod

Malin Åkerman

Bryan Connerty

Toby Leonard Moore

Kate Sacker

Condola Rashād

Taylor Amber Mason (recurring season 2, starring season 3)

Asia Kate Dillon

Mike "Wags" Wagner

David Costabile

Charles Rhoades Sr.

Jeffrey DeMunn

Versus

axelrod

Bobby Axelrod represents the struggle within the voluntary system of capitalist production.

rhoades

Chuck Rhoades represents social control by political pull. In this system all wealth is taken as a given and the question is merely how to equitably distribute it.

The series explores one of the most controversial issues of our time: “inequality”, aka: wealth.

Season Two (2017)

The storey of Billions

Billions Season One (2016)

Season One sets up the two opposing forces: The motive of self-improvement through prosperity vs. the motive of societal control towards some kind of "greater good".

The ideals are starkly laid out. Two entirely opposed ideas of the good, and the good life, and good actions, in the most general sense of the word “good”.