Peace 47

Maybe with a bit of the Joker mixed in? I.e., "You wanna know how I got these scars? Here's a complete lie."I would be (am) a bad visionary. I know that we're probably supposed to respect Joe's foresight and drive to make things happen, but I just felt bad for the guy who's his boss (forgot his name) when all the clients started jumping ship. This poor man asked for none of this: he just wanted to keep on doing what was working relatively well for the company. I was anti-Joe in almost every single one of his scenes. Why is Cameron so poor that she has no apartment and has to shoplift her clothes? She negotiated her salary up by something like 100%, right? She couldn't have negotiated an advance? And was she in school before, or did I misunderstand? If so, she wasn't living on the streets then, was she? One thing I like is how they zig when you expect them to zag on these supporting characters. Last week, it was Gordon's wife being a competent programmer in her own right; this week, it was that guy who was supposed to babysit Cameron at the office having that throwaway line to Joe that he found Cameron interesting (when you'd expect him to be a hostile bean-counter). I think I'm still a little bit on the fence overall. We'll see.

For me, it cleared the admittedly low bar of being quite a bit better than everything else that AMC tries to wedge into that extra Sunday night slot. And I have a soft spot for Lee Pace. But I couldn't help but think a few times that I would rather watch a show about that Texas Instruments engineer wife navigating a male-dominated field in the early 1980s with 2 kids and a depressed husband over watching all that was going on at Cardiff. Still, as you said in your article, Tara, it's a relatively unexplored era in our history, and there's potentially an interesting story to unfold here. That sex scene between "Always be Closing"-Lite and Computer Grrrrl was a little annoying in that it seemed to be a blatant attempt at selling sex early on in the program to keep the audience from switching off, but I know that they do what they have to do.