Just started it today.
Staunchly anti-capitalist so far. Seems really good. If anyone’s seen it I’d like to hear their feedback.
It’s a good show. I just finished it. As for the politics of it, the show isn’t Marxist despite its anger at the super rich.
The show makes a number of mistakes in its analysis of the world. Firstly, it acts as though the problems of Capitalism began in the 1980s. We know that Capitalism has always been horrific. The show also falls for the Great Men Fallacy. At one point we see all of the the bad, rich people who run the world in a room together. Capitalism is more pervasive than that. The guy who owns a fast-food franchise is just as much a Capitalist as a CEO. These mistakes work for the themes of the show, however. It is a show about hacking and conspiracies. In reality, a group of super hackers can’t expose the big bads who rule the world and steal their money, but it does make for an entertaining show.
Its great, but dont fixate too much on the anti-capitalism vibes, its more of a character driven show
spoiler
If you think all character suck, but you want the world building, stop after s1, it won’t progress much after that
Starts really good and gets worse as it goes on
How far are you? By season 3 I found the main character’s resistance to actually resisting capitalism was becoming annoying.
It’s quite good. The first piece of content to show the hacking/computer world accurately.
Rami Malek does a stellar job.
