8 TV Shows To Watch If You Like ‘Billions’

Showtime’s character-driven Wall Street drama Billions is currently airing its seventh and final season, which sees Damian Lewis’s Bobby "Axe" Axelrod returning to the fold for one last face-off against Paul Giamatti’s Chuck Rhoades, along with a relatively new power play, Alex Prince (Corey Stoll). But it’s not all bad news for fans of the long-running series: Showtime has announced that a total of four spinoffs are currently in the works, with the first likely to be a Miami-set show centered on the private aviation industry.

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Still, those spinoffs are all a long ways off, and the show’s series finale is slated to air on Oct. 29th, 2023. So if you’re looking to fill the incoming Billions void in your life, here are eight shows like Billions that are worth checking out.

Shows to watch if you like ‘Billions’

1. Industry

Though it takes place across the pond and centers on a much younger cast of characters, this HBO-BBC co-production delves into the murky world of finance with a similar depth and verve as Billions. Set at an elite investment bank in London, Industry follows a group of ruthlessly ambitious finance graduates who are thrust into a fierce competition for increasingly scarce jobs on the trading floor, following the 2008 financial crisis. It’s both a thrilling glimpse into a time of huge upheaval in the finance world, and a juicy workplace soap that demands to be binged.

2. Succession

If you enjoy Billions for its detailed depiction of ultra-wealth in New York City, then Succession is a must-watch. This impeccably written, multi-Emmy-winning HBO series elevates the story of the ultra-privileged but emotionally twisted Roy family, whose patriarch (Brian Cox) takes delight in playing his adult children against each other as he mulls over which of them to leave his sprawling media empire to. Although the series is loosely inspired by several actual dynasties (most notably the Murdochs), its characters are so fully formed that they take on lives of their own, and become deeply sympathetic despite how monstrous they are.

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3. Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber

2022 was packed to the brim with TV shows exploring the backstories of infamous Silicon Valley con artists, from The Dropout to WeCrashed. But for Billions fans, this Showtime series about the rise and fall of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick (Joseph Gordon Levitt) holds a special interest, because it was created by the same showrunners, Brian Koppelman and David Levien, and shares some of the same energy and swagger in its depiction of magnetically unpleasant characters.

4. Black Monday

Showtime’s other recent Wall Street series is a fun companion piece to Billions, offering some of the same black comedy and gleeful amorality with an absurdist edge. Blending fact and fiction, the show takes place in the run-up to a disastrous 1987 stock market crash, and stars Don Cheadle as the head of a second-tier trading firm that’s trying to level up to the big leagues, Regina Hall as his loyal but frustrated second-in-command, and Andrew Rannells as an ambitious new employee jockeying for power.

5. Mad Men

This AMC drama set a high watermark for the prestige TV office drama, chronicling the professional and personal lives of the employees of a Madison Avenue advertising firm. Spanning roughly a decade from 1960 to 1970, Mad Men is a richly detailed exploration of power dynamics against the backdrop of a changing America, anchored by the complex, refreshingly unpredictable relationship between OG male antihero Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and his unlikely protégé Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss).

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6. Damages

Though it often gets overlooked in the “golden age of TV” conversation, don’t sleep on this legal thriller from the late aughts. Glenn Close stars as Patty Hewes, a ruthless litigator who is renowned as both a brilliant lawyer and a master manipulator. Over the course of the series, Patty’s newly hired protégée Ellen (Rose Byrne) is gradually reshaped in her boss’s image, going from a wide-eyed new graduate to a dangerous player in her own right. The relationship between the two women is as compelling as the show’s twisty season-long legal cases.

7. Homeland

Billions fans were dismayed when Damian Lewis departed at the end of Season 5, given what a defining presence he was in the show (thankfully, he’s since returned for the final run). The British actor got his U.S. breakout role back in 2011 in Homeland, the fast-paced Showtime espionage drama which follows a driven, obsessive CIA analyst (Claire Danes) and the newly-minted war hero she suspects is a double agent working for Al-Qaeda (Lewis). Without spoiling anything, the show takes some big narrative swings and arguably loses focus in its later seasons, but it’s a consistently smart and sharply plotted spy thriller.

8. Ray Donovan

A predecessor to Billions on Showtime, this crime drama stars Liev Schreiber as the eponymous Ray Donovan, a professional fixer who’ll stop at nothing to clean up messes for his elite Hollywood clients. Following the show’s sudden and unexpected cancellation in 2020, the cast returned for a feature-length movie to wrap up the story, a curious turn of events which nevertheless provided fans the satisfying ending they deserved.

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