AMC: Halt and Catch Fire

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Shitenshi: Mar 12, 2013

This show is so full of itself. The main character is a ruthless, charming, Machiavellian badass cliche who not only screws some random college know-it-all the minute he first meets her, but also manages to convince her to jeopardize her future because of his dumbass actions. And of course, he manages to predict and plan his way around everyone based on some gut instinct, (oh yeah guise, I TOLD IBM I was copying their machine, don't worry, I'm a badass so everything will go my way), and some of the worst dialogue I've ever seen.

And I'm probably full of poo poo on this one because my source is Wikipedia, but I'm pretty sure reverse engineering machines back in the day, even just for fun, wasn't illegal.

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Shitenshi: Mar 12, 2013

passionate dongs posted:

This is particularly disappointing to me. I struggle to compare it to Mad Men because that's entirely out of this show's league, but Mad Men knew how to make things I would have no understanding (or care) about and turn them into best moments on TV. Will he/won't he sign a contract, pitches about pantyhose and slide projectors, those were all great moments because we knew exactly what was at stake.

It feels like whoever is writing the computer stuff and whoever is writing the cunning business stuff don't quite understand each other on this show.

That, and this show's people are as dull as sandpaper. A bunch of boring superprogrammers that we're told are geniuses but don't come off that way, and one smug rear end in a top hat in a suit whose whole job so far is being a smug rear end in a top hat in a suit, and in any other show someone would have hit him with a baseball bat, but the plot is so heavy-handed we all know that he's going to come out on top even if he's caught dropping a deuce in public for no reason.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2014 17:56

Shitenshi: Mar 12, 2013

I swear the next episode will just be Joe pleasuring all the male characters in an orgy and then laughing at Cameron because she's straight, and then all of a sudden she turns out to have a dick, and then Joe makes up some random loving reason that this was all part of his master plan to jump start Cardiff Electric and everybody's all, "That Joe is one smart badass!"

# ¿ Jun 26, 2014 04:42

Shitenshi: Mar 12, 2013

ApexAftermath posted:

I'm catching up right now and I just got to Cameron's little tantrum where she is like "when you're in the flow you don't think about backing up mannnnn!". Good god I hate this character.

Still not as bad as Joe.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2014 07:21

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