If a commercial TV series is more incomprehensible than a commercial report, then the incomprehension is the problem of the script, and the audience should not be blamed. The entire premiere episode can be said to make the audience full of question marks - how did the male protagonist ooxx with the female college students as soon as they came up? ! Why is the male protagonist chasing after Luther software engineer? ! Reverse-engineered cloned IBM computer and then reported it to IBM to file a lawsuit? Why is it not an infringement to find someone who has not read the BIOS code? The characters are simple and rude, the story clues are mysterious, and various high-level professional terms are added to scare the audience away.
It wasn't until the second episode that the plot finally became clear. It turns out that Joe, the former IBM gold salesman, has already played a big game. The development of the public PC is his blueprint, and everyone else is his pawn in the process of realizing his ideal. He has hidden his past background and is good at it. Demagogic, unscrupulous in order to achieve their goals.
From the character setting of Joe McMillian, you know he's here to succeed Don Draper, a man with a story behind him, such as his scars and his seemingly powerful father. Lee Pace sees his character as a combination of Jobs, Donald Trump, and Wall Street's Gordon Gekko, with the ambition and greed of the '80s.
At present, the protagonists of this show can only be counted as two and a half. Gordon is a bit like the ordinary and humble chemistry teacher, Lao Bai, who was devastated and cautious because of failure, but the possibility of personality reversal seems unlikely. Cameron, as a second-year high school intern, will be a destabilizing factor in the future. Other lines like Gordon's beautiful wife and bald leader haven't unfolded, but one problem hidden too deep is that the audience has long since lost interest.
It cannot be ruled out that Halt & Catch Fire is a proposition for AMC. In recent years, the theme of IT entrepreneurship in the film and television industry has been like the story of Jiang Zhiqing, and high-level executives want to dig a gold mine in the age of technology and network. But what if a small percentage of AMC's subscribers are from an IT background? Not everyone who eats eggs is interested in caring about chickens that lay eggs. Instead of talking over and over about entrepreneurs changing the world, it is better to make a fuss in the field of sales that everyone is relatively unfamiliar with.
Although it is well-made, it strives to restore the original appearance of the 80s. But it is also a period drama. Compared with "Mad Men", this drama has a significant shortcoming. The age is too close and there is no room for imagination. The fashion of the 1980s is really hard to find except for big suits that don't fit. Highlight it.
Pepe, go make a movie, I found your plateau red on TV again.
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