The premier episode of billions begins with chuck roads, the us. General attorney, being serviced by a dominatrex who puts a cigarette out on his chest and then urinates on the burn. The idea for that originally came from a movie that dave and i made with stephen sodeberg called the girl friend experience. And in fact, we were interested the accommodations people in a long term marriage make foreign to one another. We knew we could play with these ideas. It just created something that would tell you a lot about these characters in a kind of a shorthand.
Brian Koppelman joins to talk about his remarkable life, sharing why he became a writer after years of working as a record promoter and producer.