Winstonm Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Anyone else watching and enjoying Halt and Catch Fire? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Anyone else watching and enjoying Halt and Catch Fire? I really wanted to like it. I enjoy Silicon Valley much more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted June 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 I guess I am easily amused. B-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 They're very different styles. Silicon Valley is pretty broad comedy, so there are plenty of LOL moments. H&CF takes itself more seriously, it's a dark comedy. I wonder a bit about what non-geeks think of shows like this. Last week's episode of SV had a running joke about tabs versus spaces when editing, and I can't imagine that non-programmers would understand it. Then the final punch line was about Emacs vs. Vim, which would just be total gibberish to them, but I saw it coming a mile away. But The Big Bang Theory has been one of the most popular shows on TV for the past few years, and it has many of the same issues. I guess people are willing to allow the tech talk to go over their head, because the character interactions are still funny. You don't need to know what a tab is to laugh at someone so anal-retentive that they would dump a smart, beautiful potential girlfriend over something so petty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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