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Halt and Catch Fire AMC original series season 1 and 2

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Posted 2016-June-05, 11:03

Anyone else watching and enjoying Halt and Catch Fire?
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Posted 2016-June-05, 11:44

View PostWinstonm, on 2016-June-05, 11:03, said:

Anyone else watching and enjoying Halt and Catch Fire?


I really wanted to like it. I enjoy Silicon Valley much more.
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Posted 2016-June-05, 19:56

I guess I am easily amused. B-)
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Posted 2016-June-06, 09:32

They're very different styles. Silicon Valley is pretty broad comedy, so there are plenty of LOL moments. H&CF takes itself more seriously, it's a dark comedy.

I wonder a bit about what non-geeks think of shows like this. Last week's episode of SV had a running joke about tabs versus spaces when editing, and I can't imagine that non-programmers would understand it. Then the final punch line was about Emacs vs. Vim, which would just be total gibberish to them, but I saw it coming a mile away.

But The Big Bang Theory has been one of the most popular shows on TV for the past few years, and it has many of the same issues. I guess people are willing to allow the tech talk to go over their head, because the character interactions are still funny. You don't need to know what a tab is to laugh at someone so anal-retentive that they would dump a smart, beautiful potential girlfriend over something so petty.
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