Watched the entire first season run...it was okay, but difficult to watch because the main characters were all unlikeable, except for the wife and manager. While they got the timeline and technology right, it's just unbelievable how the 3 main characters alternate between genius and batsh!t crazy--surely nobody can be that stupid, really? By the halfway mark you already suspect that the stupid things they do are just contrived to generate drama on this show.
Lee Pace seems to be carving a career path playing a$$holes--he's an a$$hole elf in
The Hobbit movies, an a$$hole Kree in
Guardians of the Galaxy, and now an a$$hole Product Manager here, LOL.
The show got favorable reviews from critics, but was a ratings bomb, with its fate still up in the air. But even if they don't renew it, I think they already told the story they wanted to tell.
.. is this based on true events ba or not? coz they are very strong in delivering the message that the antagonist in their show are big corporate companies.. wont they have legal problems?
It's a fictionalized account of how the race for the market of cheap IBM clones started...characters are not based on real people, but the events shown are all part of computing history, something to which I was witness to in the early 1980s, when a price war between the cheaper home computer developers--Atari, Commodore, Radio Shack, Sinclair and Texas Instruments turned ugly and everyone lost except Commodore, while Apple and IBM slowly took over the higher-end market.
The TV series starts after the home computer fallout in 1982 (Gordon's wife was clearly shown recommending they drop the TI-99, one of the losers in the home computing market--I remember seeing a sad TI-99 always on display at Abenson's counters, LOL), with IBM just introducing their IBM PC, a machine still considered as way too expensive for home users at the time.
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