[0xCMP]

It's a shame that it is such a niche show in practice. The acting of Lee Pace and Mackenzie Davis in particular are so good across all 4 seasons.

I recommend it at every chance I get, but few people ever watch it. They're more likely to give Silicon Valley a try.

[Unai]

Lee Pace is just bigger than life, and Mackenzie Davis is electric in every scene, but my favourite on the show was Scoot McNairy's character. A very specific type of nerd that's rarely written with such depth and nuance. Although I guess that could be said of all the main (and not so main) characters in the show.

If anyone else loved these actors watching HACF, I would recommend watching The Fall (Pace), Fargo S3 (McNairy) and Station Eleven (Davis).

[rigonkulous]

(Lived the HACF era/story personally, so it was a poignant watch.)

What HACF got right, imho, was the collection of the various personalities that were attracted to the rising computer technology, of the era.

I've known plenty of Joe's and Camerons and Donna's, but the ones I chose to remember were the Gordons .. alas, there are the odd Gilfoyle and Josh stains among the sheets of memory too, though ..

[burnte]

> Scoot McNairy's character. A very specific type of nerd that's rarely written with such depth and nuance.

AGREED! I became an instant favorite of that actor just from this part. I'm the rare nerd type who is extremely outgoing and comfortable in any kind of social situation, very capable of getting along and communicating with both the business types and nerds, but I'm still extremely technical to a degree that surprises the jocks and the nerds. "Gordon", the character, is the exact type of nerd that I wind up getting along best with, and I loved that character in the show.

[intothemild]

Same. Having experienced the growth of computing in those eras, the show itself had a very well researched yet very nostalgic sense of "oh yes. I'd forgotten about that".

[riddley]

All four leads are flawless and I can't really think of a single bad performance.

[whateveracct]

Silicon Valley is also pretty good. I went in expecting not to like it (in a Big Bang Theory "about nerds but not for them" way) but came out loving it. It may read as parody to some but it barely is. It's a comedic but accurate take on west coast tech industry of the 2010s

[intothemild]

The best part of Silicon Valley was that it had a very south park quality to it.. in that things that were actually happening at the time were parodied on the show.

[bananaflag]

I sometimes tell people that HCF is why I wanted to become a programmer and Silicon Valley is why I didn't become one.

(I watched both of them years after I decided not to go into industry.)