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Ask HN: What do you think about “Halt and Catch Fire”?
Is a realistic picture of what was happening at that time?
- sdeyerle 12y agoI couldn't get past episode 3. The many sex scenes seemed completely unrealistic and out of place, and the characters were almost entirely unlikable. The intro is pretty awesome though.
- hashtag 12y agoProbably not. But awesome show. Significantly better than that garbage Silicon Valley.
- Someone1234 12y agoMeh. It is better than "Silicon Valley" which is just utter todle but accurate? I don't believe so, but it is a TV show after all aimed at a larger demographic than would find the realities entertaining. Let's put it this way, I actually get annoyed watching "Silicon Valley" while I don't watching "Half and Catch Fire."
- smeyer 12y agoDo you have a definition for the word todle? I can infer from context but not find a definition online.
- Someone1234 12y agoJunk. Like waffle. Sorry it is localised speech. Although I'm surprised there is no Urban Dictionary definition.
- monknomo 12y agoI think it is an dialect-y spelling of twattle or twaddle.
- Mankhool 12y agoI've been watching it and racking my brain trying to figure out what company it is based on. As it turns out it is completely fictional. It could be tighter - the scene of the guy singing in his car went on FOREVER and did not move the story one. inch. And the sex scenes are kind of like, oh, well we need to fill out the hour . . .