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Comment by bayesianhorse | Hacker News Reader

The lead character feels to me like "Dexter as a Hacker".

I totally disliked the series... It's poorly written, disconnected and the lead character doesn't convince enough. Even the story-line is totally poor IMHO.

So the only good thing is the realistic hacking scenes...

I guess having an unpopular opinion, gets you down voted here. I hope the down voting was more due to adding an unnecessary opinion here.

I think it was mainly because they gave an unpopular opinion without backing it up with any real explaination or reasoning.

can you give some examples of the poor writing?

The basic problem is that the only realistic thing in the show is the hacking. Everything else is absurd.

It's a realistic show about hacking the same way that Fantasy Island was a realistic show about island vacations.

Now if they changed the title to "Fantasy Mr. Robot" so you know up front what the premise is I might be more forgiving about the plot.

I feel sorry for the lead character and he obviously has problems, but the wannabe CTO of EvilCorp reminds me more of Dexter. This is the first TV show I've enjoyed enough to schedule for it in a long time but that character (Tyrell Wellick[1]) is a bit too dark for comfort.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0514444/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2

Tyrell seems more like Patrick Bateman than Dexter.

Yeah, he's a dead ringer for American Psycho, but with the added twist of his wife being an antagonist.

I'm more scared of his wife - looks like she's the brains in that relationship :-)

She is stunning though but yes, both are psychic but she is by far more scary and has him under total control.

> both are psychic

Their predictions of the future have been a bit off the mark...

There's also some Macbeth and Hamlet going on here.

Did you catch that she was trying in vain to get a spot out of linens in a recent episode?

By the way, what language do they speak? I get some "hits" in my rudimentary Norwegian language skills. So either a Norwegian dialect or one of the Norse family...

Tyrell speaks Swedish, and his wife speaks Danish.

It's no surprise that you get some "hits" (even with "rudimentary Norwegian language skills"), as the Scandinavian languages are so similar that we generally understand each other – Norwegian speakers even more so, according to Wikipedia [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Germanic_languages#Mutua...

After the latest episode it feels a bit more like "nerd soap opera".

Soap operas are not famous for characters dying a violent death.

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