The show was about a low-life trying to infiltrate a corporation. I find it interesting because all other cyberpunk stories I know will only show the evil CEO hiding at the top of some giant building. It’s rare to find a story that shows the life of the average worker drone. Obviously, it was cancelled after one season.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7eKEHhSw00

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Looks pretty cool

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Thanks for pointing it out! I’ll give it a watch. Is it any good?

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I enjoyed it. They did a good job setting up the world. Just expect some plot threads to not be resolved since it was cancelled before they could wrap anything up.

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Great recommendation, thank you, I’ve watched it. I really got into it, well done story telling.

Wish they had more then one season.

The writers did a great job making the corporation / government divide seem believable. The government’s still exist, but are underpowered and highly corrupt, the corporations basically have a free hand. Kinda like modern day developing nation against the petroleum companies, but at a global scale.

The Gattica take was interesting, I liked the deep baseball power politics. The love angle I think didn’t work in the second half of the season, it felt liked a forced motivator once we got the whole backstory.

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I recall thinking it was just ok, with some very cool visuals (like what you see in the picture OP posted, with a fake pretty scene hiding the slums behind it).

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Of course it was cancelled after a season. This seems really uncomfy for people who still “live in the matrix” and want to keep kicking the cans down the roads.

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Yeah this show hit a little close to home. I was working in a biomedical company’s HQ that was the size of a small gated village. This place had dozens of buildings, 5 cafeterias, a couple of fancy parks, and even an elementary school/daycare. The daycare is what really freaked me out. I wouldn’t be surprised if the kids were being taught to narc on their families through being drip fed pro-corporate propaganda.

It taught me we’re not in danger of being in a corporate dystopia because we’re already living it.

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Agreed. We really are living in it already.

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Barilla has an on-site daycare, they make pasta…

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Why’s it look like the West Bank?

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