#lio sigerson

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new information from that 7x04 call sheet:

7x04 is written by lio sigerson, who cowrote 6x04 burn rate and 6x08 the big ugly with brian koppelman & david levien, and directed by john dahl, who directed 1x08 boasts and rails, 3x04 hell of a ride, 3x06 the third ortolan, and 5x03 beg, bribe, bully.

babak tafti, who had a lead role in super pumped season 1, will be in billions season 7 as a new character, bradford luke. last month daniel k. isaac posted a selfie with babak tafti captioned “SUPER PUMPED & now #Billions Family,” so this isn’t too surprising. in this episode, luke will try to stop prince from taking some course of action and will fail because he “has no veto power.”

scooter will get the chance to conduct a musical ensemble (tying back to telling philip in 6x05 that he could have been a conductor “for real”) and prince cappers will be there to watch.

chuck & allerd will return to the us attorney’s office for the southern district of new york and work against prince from there. in this episode, this will involve someone named kai huang liu (see: the photo double casting call for “kai sr”) and a kid who flees the law until prince convinces him to turn himself in.

the dollar bill photo double/stand-in will appear in this episode.

questions raised by the call sheet:

who exactly is bradford luke and what is he failing to veto? how big will his role in the season be?

is prince hanging out at prince capital because 1) he’s still running the fund day-to-day despite ostensibly handing over the reins to philip and taylor, 2) he’s using it as his operating base for his presidential run and other projects, or 3) he wants everyone to cheer and clap for scooter and this is the best place to do it?

how on earth did chuck get back into the us attorney’s office after being fired from there and from his subsequent job as the nyag *and* supposedly being indicted? what happened to dave’s plan for him to go after prince under cover of disgrace? is his office a supply closet in the back of the building?

who’s the kid that’s hiding out on prince’s plane until he turns himself in, and is he connected to the kai huang liu case? is he, perhaps, kai huang liu junior? or is there no connection? why is he unnamed and not listed on the call sheet with the other actors?

given that dollar bill, rian, chuck, and allerd are in this episode, where are mafee, winston, sacker, and dave? i can understand dave not being on here, since none of the scenes listed happen at the nyag’s office, but why wouldn’t sacker and winston be at what seems like an all-hands prince cap meeting, and why would dollar bill be there if mafee isn’t? for that matter, why isn’t wags in those scenes despite being listed on the call sheet?

if my newly-acquired understanding of call sheet abbreviations is correct, this day of shooting was the last day that asia kate dillon, kelly aucoin, daniel k. isaac, louis cancelmi, eva victor, and dhruv maheshwari worked on this episode, despite it being only day 3 of an 11-day shoot. is the prince cap ensemble barely present in this episode, or were the first two days of shooting jam-packed?

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from beth schacter’s instagram story, december 1, 2023

Beth Schacter | Billions Writers | Eli Attie | Lio Sigerson | Theo Travers | Emily Hornsby

PRINCE

WANT to be a great man in history ≠ NEED to be loved & admired

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Doing good

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manipulation / being a monster

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thanks to the writers guild of america directory, we have the first six billions s6 episode titles! and their writers! the list, and thoughts on what they might mean:

6x01 “Cannonade” (by Brian Koppelman & David Levien): a cannonade = a period of continuous bombardment / heavy gunfire. someone’s under attack. (or maybe it refers to the racehorse of the same name.)

6x02 “Lying Eyes” (by Emily Hornsby): “lyin’ eyes” is a song by the eagles about a young woman who marries a rich older man and cheats on him with a younger man. trouble in paradise for senior and roxanne? or wags and chelz? or ira and taiga, again? or maybe it’s a metaphorical application. in any case, that’s one likely music cue for the season.

6x03 “STD” (by Theo Travers): wikipedia gives many definitions for the initialism “STD,” including but not limited to: sexually transmitted disease (unsurprisingly), internet standards such as STD 68, short term disability, and star trek: discovery.

6x04 “Burn Rate” (by Brian Koppelman & David Levien & Lio Sigerson): in finance, the burn rate is the rate at which a company spends money, particularly the rate at which venture capital is spent before a company starts generating income. finance-specific episode titles tend to be literal, so someone’s burning through cash, perhaps unsustainably.

6x05 “Rock of Eye” (by Eli Attie): “rock of eye” is a tailoring term, meaning an approach to tailoring that’s artistic, instinctual, and guided solely by the eye, rather than a scientific, measurement-based approach. will we get a literal tailor? a figurative tailor? some play on taylor’s name? (they don’t trust instinct, but maybe they’ll have to learn to trust it.)

6x06 “Hostis Humani Generis” (by Beth Schacter): “hosti humani generis” (latin for “enemy of mankind”) is a legal term, designating a person or group of people as beyond legal protection and subject to violence from anyone. this first, and most often, applied to pirates. remember prince calling axe a pirate in 5x11? or dollar bill’s nostalgia for the days of outlaws — literally people to whom the law didn’t apply, who could be killed by anyone — in 2x09? prince might find himself on the wrong side of that designation.