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Just finished watching this today. Some thoughts:
- This has maybe my favorite opening-credits sequence/music of any show. It just gets me so EXCITED and it's also really funny that the whole thing is a dramatic rendering of an LED switching on. It seems to fit the show's tone less as time goes on, though, especially in S4, where the characters are so much more grounded.
- Which reminds me: it really is kind of incredible what a *different* show it is by S4 compared to where it started. At points the last season maybe a bit too soap-y, but the characters are all so great I didn't mind it so much.
- I like the music choices too, but I agree they do get a bit "wanna hear some of my records?" And some of them are just way too on-the-nose, especially ending the finale with Solisbury Hill, which actually kinda worked, but still.
- This show could easily have sucked without such good performances. I can't pick a favorite character or actor, but the way Scoot McNairy portrays Gordon's arc from catatonia to mania to fear to eventual equanimity was really personally affecting.
- Watching this brought up a lot of my own anxieties about life and whether I am spending it wisely. I have this strong desire to *create something* the way the characters in this show do, but I still haven't really figured out what that means yet. And it can really gnaw on me sometimes. But I'm feeling motivated to pick back up some projects that I'd put aside for a while.
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Monday, 30 November 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
Yeah the opening sequence is great. It bugged me for a while because it sounded like a ripoff of a specific Trentemøller song until I found out the theme song was actually... Trentemøller
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
four weeks pass...
four months pass...
just finished watching the whole series. fantastic show, very sad to see it end. A+ acting, hope all the leads get new roles as worthy as the characters they played here.
― that's not my post, Monday, 17 May 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
four months pass...
one year passes...
The first episode is hilarious and bad - the computer nerd who isn't just uncool but is a loser and deadbeat dad, the stupendously hot and cool and rebellious and talented female coder, and the glengarry salesmen - who gets to fuck the coder. But we stuck with it and yeah it gets better. Midway through S2 now, still good but seems to be trying a bit too hard to generate suspense - the legendary engineer just happens to write a devastating virus by accident? The games company that goes two years without even coming up with a single idea for a new game? And I don't quite get the timeshare idea, the mainframe is only available out of office hours so how can they use it during the day?
― ledge, Monday, 12 June 2023 09:49 (ten months ago) link
The scene in the first season where Lee Pace stands on the office roof, rips his shirt off, and screams into the rain, is really one of the worst things ever filmed (topless Lee Pace aside). It’s amazing how good it got later on.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 12 June 2023 13:19 (ten months ago) link