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Fantastic show, highly recommend.

Absolutely horrible show and I advise people to not waste their time.

Why is that?

The acting is horrible. The writing is terrible. The story veers off into areas unrelated. There is a moment of a thoroughly unrelated homosexual encounter. (What was the point of that?!) Moments I know that are so really stretched too far to be believable. And on and on.

So bad I couldn't finish the series.

Sorry you have bad taste and don’t understand character development outside of in your face plot points ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"The writing is terrible"

and what fiction have you ever written?

I lived through that era, too. As historical fiction, HACF is pretty decent. "areas unrelated" -- hello, it's FICTION about a specific era, and, without knowing what specifically you're talking about: maybe those "unrelated" areas are period-setting, or character-developing.

HACF not for you. Let's leave it at that. You can't please everyone.

I think the homosexual encounter is to show how joe and folks like joe use sex as a tool to exert power over other people.

It's extremely contrived and deus-ex-machina all the way through.

The "history" the show goes over is crammed into it's Drama first story. The history is there for nostalgia bait, not to celebrate the history or educate. That's why pretty much everything interesting that happened in computing was mangled into coming from the same like 5 people.

And the characters are all just narcissistic assholes who are self destructive because it means the show gets to carry on for another season. It also has the cliche density to feel like a high schooler's homework project.

If you find yourself addicted to reality TV drama, you will enjoy it.

Imagine if you tried to take "It's always sunny in Philadelphia" seriously, and also were watching it because you cared about Philadelphia history. I felt actively patronized the whole time.

Wrong. That's like saying the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin novels are "contrived." Hello, it's fiction. It isn't there to educate, except insofar as the situations the characters find themselves in teach you something about what it was like back then.

Season 2, though, I couldn't watch.

Completely inaccurate analogy using IASIP and Philly. lol.

I was annoyed by the C64's that were shown as having "C:>" prompts as if they were MS-DOS machines. I think I get where that was coming from -- people who were too young to remember the period were designing the sets and vaguely remembered that "old-timey" computers had "C:>" prompts and given that C64's are old computers, assumed they did too.

Such insightful commentary!

I didn't find it a perfect show--especially latterly--but it captured a lot of the era, such as COMDEX, pretty well.

As insightful as the comment I replied to.

Precisely

I agree.

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