Hopefully Cameron can dial it down a wee bit on the manufactured drama.
Sunday, May 31
10 p.m. Halt and Catch Fire, AMC
Still with the Cameron drama...but I guess that isn't going away. Kind of just a 'setting up the season' episode really, IMO.
I am betting he is going down the early 3D plant modeling road like he alluded to. That or CAD/CAM stuff.I liked this last episode. Gordon is finding his groove after the buyout and Mutiny is struggling to find leadership. I'm not sure what to think of the whole MacMillan angle. I'm pretty sure he's not the type of guy who will settle for a data entry job.
Should be interesting to see where this season goes. It's early but so far I like it.
I am betting he is going down the early 3D plant modeling road like he alluded to. That or CAD/CAM stuff.
Considering that Joe is smart and has no scruples whatsoever, I'd bet that he'll be either be selling the data entry information to other oil companies or do insider trading with the data he's reviewing.
We can be guaranteed that it will be both evil and vengeful, that's for sure.
I watch the show and it's not bad but I don't look forward to the episodes at all. It's one of those I feel more obliged to watch than actually enjoy.
I thought that the first season was reaching to be 'high concept' like Madmen but it failed - not miserably, though. It's reach exceeded its grasp. Most of the time I thought it was flailing around trying to find some meaning in building a better computer. But you can't really do that w/o focusing on the broader industry - which you can't really do w/o it turning into a documentary.
Even the dramatic interactions between the characters often felt contrived. The only ones that really range true where the few scenes between Joe and his father and between Gordon and Donna.
The latest episode bothered me because they seemed to imply that you could multiplex one central office line into many local lines - except I don't think that's how an old pbx system would work. You still need a separate CO line for every call that is active, but I guess I could be wrong about that.
I'm hoping this season is better and by taking the story in a couple different directions, maybe it will be. But I'm not getting my hopes up yet.
Don't forget The Last Ship, lol.Agree with your first sentence.
Right now my priority is GoT, Silicon Valley, then halt and catch fire.
True Detective will move to the 2nd spot on the 21st though. w00t
I'm not a C++ programmer, but can someone explain to me how a network mapping program can accidently wipe the drives of the system it's connected to? My BS meter went off on that one.