Just started it today.
Staunchly anti-capitalist so far. Seems really good. If anyone’s seen it I’d like to hear their feedback.
It’s a good show. I just finished it. As for the politics of it, the show isn’t Marxist despite its anger at the super rich.
The show makes a number of mistakes in its analysis of the world. Firstly, it acts as though the problems of Capitalism began in the 1980s. We know that Capitalism has always been horrific. The show also falls for the Great Men Fallacy. At one point we see all of the the bad, rich people who run the world in a room together. Capitalism is more pervasive than that. The guy who owns a fast-food franchise is just as much a Capitalist as a CEO. These mistakes work for the themes of the show, however. It is a show about hacking and conspiracies. In reality, a group of super hackers can’t expose the big bads who rule the world and steal their money, but it does make for an entertaining show.
Its great, but dont fixate too much on the anti-capitalism vibes, its more of a character driven show
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If you think all character suck, but you want the world building, stop after s1, it won’t progress much after that
How far are you? By season 3 I found the main character’s resistance to actually resisting capitalism was becoming annoying.
Starts really good and gets worse as it goes on
It is mostly radlib anti-capitalism, and there is a huge recession and a lot of bailouts for E-Corp after their heist. So, I believe that it is season 2 and 3 where several characters are starting to say things like “maybe overthrowing capitalism and revolution are misguided”. But if you just want a character based drama with a lot of twists, it is not bad.
That’s really disappointing to hear. I’ll still probably watch it but the first episode gives heavy revolutionary vibes, no? I mean he’s literally just ripping apart capitalist society and the drones it produces lol
It’s more like adventurism. Yankee productions have this idea of “revolution” that is basically “step 1: independently sabotage one specific critical bit of the government, step 2: ???, step 3: communism”. It’s funny that Ecorp is a bit of a shorthand for corporations like Amazon, but Amazon bought exclusive rights for online distribution of the series, which I bet impacted the writing. But you can finish the first season, it remains good until the finale or so.
You’re right, but it gets worse than that.
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After the success of the attack on the world financial system, global capital basically just pivots and recovers while life gets worse for normal people. I think that’s a good and interesting direction to explore, but the solution the show’s middle posits is basically that trying to change the system was a mistake. The solution is presented as trying to work within the evil company to undo the attack and reform the global financial system from within. By the end, it somehow gets even worse by revealing that the real problem with capitalism was always China, and specifically one insane evil Chinese trans person. The score and acting remain terrific throughout, but the plot outside the character drama starts revolutionary and nosedives into disgusting lib shit really hard.
