Has anyone been watching The Good Lord Bird? It's about abolitionist John Brown and the leadup to the Harpers Ferry raid, which was a major catalyst for the US Civil War.
Two episodes in and I'm divided. It's getting better, but I don't fully love it.
I watched the first episode, but yeah it didn't really grab me so I didn't continue with it. There are so many good TV shows out there that I find it hard to give time to something that I'm just not feeling right away.
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Moonbase 8. Some funny moments. Pretty much the kind of show what you’d expect from John C Reilly and Fred Armisen.
I don't know, I'll watched the second episode, but the first one was kind of predictable and didn't really get a lot of funny moment memories for me.
I started watching Halt and Catch Fire, I'm halfway through the first season, and its a interesting show. I think there's a real nostalgia factor for me, I would have been about 16 in the first season and really into the whole coding thing at the time, so I have flashbacks. though its funny that they're trying to introduce what is in a sense the modern laptop, even though the whole industry at that time was heading towards the color revolution, and in 1983 was moving into GUI, MIDI sound and pushing beyond CGA graphics.
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I don't know, I'll watched the second episode, but the first one was kind of predictable and didn't really get a lot of funny moment memories for me.
I started watching Halt and Catch Fire, I'm halfway through the first season, and its a interesting show. I think there's a real nostalgia factor for me, I would have been about 16 in the first season and really into the whole coding thing at the time, so I have flashbacks. though its funny that they're trying to introduce what is in a sense the modern laptop, even though the whole industry at that time was heading towards the color revolution, and in 1983 was moving into GUI, MIDI sound and pushing beyond CGA graphics.
One quirky thing is the snowbirds from “near Calgary” that rescue Cap. It does rely too much on John C Reilly being the same character he is in nearly everything.
Halt and Catch Fire was something of a nostalgia trip. Getting into BBSs and then those websites that were just curated lists of interesting website. I remember checking out a book at Coles that was just links and descriptions, like the one that let you virtually dissect a frog.
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I remember having that massive list of bulletin board phone numbers taped next to my computer. And my mom's annoyed shriek when she tried to use the phone, and my endless string of profanity as she interrupted an hour long download.
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Possibly, but to me he really lost something after losing the Tonight Show. He's been nothing but incredible in podcast form, but TBS gave him all the leeway that HBO would and he was just a different performer on TV after the fiasco, and understandably.
A little more jaded and quiet, not as much energy or fire in his performances and delivery.
I finished Halt and Catch Fire yesterday, and for those that haven't watched it, I can't recommend it enough. Set to the background of the Computer Evolution that lead to the evolution of online and then internet, its a amazing look at the speed of technology resurgence in the early 80's to mid 90's.
When I first started watching it I thought it was a story about 4 psychopaths, and in a sense initially it was. Joe, Cameron, Donna and to an extent Gordon destroyed everything around themselves in pursuit of that one big idea.
In the end, they all though rediscovered their humanity (Ironic given the end). Extremely well acted and written with sharp dialogue, and one of the most satisfying endings that you could ask for from a series like this.
It was also cool to see the writers take on the evolution of the PC and how the Internet evolved.
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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