If you're in Britain and have never seen #HaltAndCatchFire, it's now been added to #Channel4 so now's your chance to see THE BEST TV PROGRAMME EVER MADE!

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/halt-and-catch-fire

#HACF #LeePace #MackenzieDavis #KerryBishé #ScootMcNairy #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #HistoryOfComputing

@Jyoti An overlooked classic. No Emmys — outrageous.

@CultureDesk

Because geek culture is always ignored unless it can be milked dry for the mainstream like Big Bang Theory.

:-/

@Jyoti @CultureDesk BBT was truly the worst. It was more what Boomers thought nerds were like instead of reality. Found Community, IT Crowd and Silicon Valley resonated a lot more.

@jbwharris @CultureDesk

Still does my nut in that Linehan is one of the UK's major transphobes. Such a fucking horrible, horrible person.

What annoyed me most about BBT is the things they got WRONG. They're meant to be pedantic geeks but it's obvious the writers were not.

@Jyoti @CultureDesk I once saw a deep dive into BBT about how the show spent a lot of time punching down at nerd culture instead of being part of it. I find my enduring memory was how the President of a previous company kinda made Sheldon the mascot of the development department. He thought the show was hilarious, while at the same time not being a tech nerd himself, he was more of a sales/accounting guy.

@jbwharris @CultureDesk

I have to be careful here as the last time I criticised BBT for being fake geek, I got leapt on by a load of geeks who love it.

Soooo... to each their own!

But def not my cup of tea.