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.
