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Re: Betas (TV Series 2013– )

#31
This show is filled with trite stereotypes. For example: an Indian(?) programmer with terrible social skills has dinner with his parents where they try to arrange a marriage for him. Seriously? The main character is self-obsessed, shallow, and boring, just like this show.

Did Amazon do a bunch of analytics and figure out that this is what people want to watch? (IIRC that's how House of Cards was conceived). It's terrible on so many levels.

Re: Betas (TV Series 2013– )

#32

Is the title really a reference to that strange psychosexual thing people have about alphas and betas, As and Bs? What is it referring to, in the context of the show?

> Is the title really a reference to that strange psychosexual thing people have about alphas and betas

But, wolves do that, so it must be true! I read it on the Internet!

Re: Betas (TV Series 2013– )

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Note that this show is terrible. They are trying to make Silicon Valley and startups look like Hollywood and scriptwriting. The first episode has the main characters (startup co-founders) hanging out at a trendy bar and programming there. Of course one is a stereo-typical aspie guy with no social skills but is a genius with computers. Then they go to a house party thrown by a big name VC that I think is supposed to b…

Heh, sounds like the (great) movie Primer shows a more accurate view of tech start-ups (and I assume the similarities end there...). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/

Yeah, except for Primer's funding model, which was based on ethically-questionable securities trading practices involving a time machine, it was just like an SV startup.

Betas probably hits a little close to home for some people around here, I imagine.

Re: Betas (TV Series 2013– )

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post #22
post #8

Note that this show is terrible. They are trying to make Silicon Valley and startups look like Hollywood and scriptwriting. The first episode has the main characters (startup co-founders) hanging out at a trendy bar and programming there. Of course one is a stereo-typical aspie guy with no social skills but is a genius with computers. Then they go to a house party thrown by a big name VC that I think is supposed to b…

Heh, sounds like the (great) movie Primer shows a more accurate view of tech start-ups (and I assume the similarities end there...). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/

Primer is fantastic if only because it shows how new breakthroughs are really achieved. Much less glamorous and a lot scarier than Hollywood always presents.

Re: Betas (TV Series 2013– )

#36
post #8

Note that this show is terrible. They are trying to make Silicon Valley and startups look like Hollywood and scriptwriting. The first episode has the main characters (startup co-founders) hanging out at a trendy bar and programming there. Of course one is a stereo-typical aspie guy with no social skills but is a genius with computers. Then they go to a house party thrown by a big name VC that I think is supposed to b…

wow.

It's a tv show. Not a reality show.

Re: Betas (TV Series 2013– )

#37
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There's also going to be a Mike Judge-created HBO series called "Silicon Valley": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)

It's hard to imagine Mike Judge failing at anything. I'll be anxiously awaiting this.

How about failing at producing his content for a company that will make it available to people who use streaming rather than cable?

Re: Betas (TV Series 2013– )

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post #36
post #8

Note that this show is terrible. They are trying to make Silicon Valley and startups look like Hollywood and scriptwriting. The first episode has the main characters (startup co-founders) hanging out at a trendy bar and programming there. Of course one is a stereo-typical aspie guy with no social skills but is a genius with computers. Then they go to a house party thrown by a big name VC that I think is supposed to b…

wow. It's a tv show. Not a reality show.

I hope you see the irony in that statement...

For people outside the US, "reality shows" in the US are even crazier and are even more hyper-stereotypical than normal scripted TV shows.

Re: Betas (TV Series 2013– )

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

wow. It's a tv show. Not a reality show.

I hope you see the irony in that statement... For people outside the US, "reality shows" in the US are even crazier and are even more hyper-stereotypical than normal scripted TV shows.

Yep my bad, yet hopefully you get my point. I should have said documentary instead :)

I watch a bunch of TV shows with the CIA or FBI in them. I don't for a second think that they depict anything realistically.

Re: Betas (TV Series 2013– )

#40
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Note that this show is terrible. They are trying to make Silicon Valley and startups look like Hollywood and scriptwriting. The first episode has the main characters (startup co-founders) hanging out at a trendy bar and programming there. Of course one is a stereo-typical aspie guy with no social skills but is a genius with computers. Then they go to a house party thrown by a big name VC that I think is supposed to b…

Yeah, I found it pretty bad. I watched a whole 2 eps, then bailed. I think Amazon has a hit with Alpha House, though. Very, very funny. Good cast, too.
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