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> You felt let down by what is generally considered one of the best written shows of the 2010s? By “generally” I’m guessing you just mean yourself? I thought
by hnlmorg 3y ago
> You felt let down by what is generally considered one of the best written shows of the 2010s?
By “generally” I’m guessing you just mean yourself?
I thought the writing was pretty weak. They kept falling back on silly tropes to force some drama into the show rather than letting the subject matter itself be the drama. It very much felt like they “jumped the shark” right from the very first episode.
Very few of those characters were believable, let alone likeable.
I do agree season 4 is better, but and the reason why is because the dialled it back on the writing and focused a lot more on the characters. Which is what they should have done from the start.
The writing for me felt a lot more like they didn’t have confidence that the subject matter is interesting enough on its own. Which is a sign of bad writing, not good writing.
That all said, there were some good moments. But on the whole it just wasn’t great. However there isn’t many shows based around this subject so I guess some geeks try to convince themselves that the show was better than it actually was. But each to their own I guess
- tsunamifury 3y agoHN seems to strongly disagree. So many your dog whistle insults are wrongly pointed.
- pests 3y agoWhat? It's been 45 minutes... 30 minutes before you replied. Give things a chance to settle.
- serf 3y agoI don't know what 'dog-whistle insults' even means in this case; but ignoring that, I thought the show sucked, too. In my case I think it's an aversion to specialized marketing. I hated Silicon Valley, too; I think it's a lack of distance from the topic which makes me overthink the thing rather than just having fun with the story. But with HACF I didn't just dislike the topic, I thought the acting was corny and stiff and I thought that the characters were unmotivated throughout the thing, with motivation being replaced with pseudo-historical anecdote. I thought the actors were poorly cast, and I feel like they did a bad job 'convincing' me of anything. "Of course they're doing the thing, that's who Z is!" isn't compelling enough for me to enjoy it and suspend my real personality from interjecting criticism during the watch. But who cares what I think : i've been out of lock-step with the crowd for a few years w.r.t. media consumption. Amazon/Netflix/Disney/whoever, AMC in this case shouldn't be considering what I think when toting their bags of money to the bank.
- MrRolleyes 3y ago[dead]
- mrguyorama 3y agoIt felt like a soap opera that just happened to take place around 3 decades of computing. The characters were all mary sues that just magically had whatever attributes were needed at the moment. I was half expecting someone's evil twin to come out at some point.
- artimaeis 3y agoIt’s generally well regarded. Here’s a recent list (4 Oct 2023) by The Hollywood Reporter that puts it in their top 50 of the 21st century so far (#17). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-tv-shows-21st-century/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-tv-shows-21st-c... I’m really curious, if you thought the writing was pretty weak in HCF, what’s a show that you thought was particularly well written?