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AgentCIPHR commented on Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)   sceneandheardnu.com/conte... · Posted by u/walterbell
Slow_Hand · a month ago
Funny that this came up today. Last night I started re-watching the series after several years. Just this afternoon I was reflecting on how genuinely charismatic Lee Pace's Joe McMillen is.

You really feel it. Even when we know he's a manipulative sonuvabitch. It's mesmerizing. You have to admire his ability to spin shit into gold. The man has vision.

There's a sequence around S01E07 that I'm looking forward to reaching again, in which Joe is out on the front lawn with Donna's daughters during a hurricane and it's FEELS like magic. His performance feels earnest, and hypnotizing, and genuinely magical as he puts on a show for these young girls in the rain.

There's something intangible and hard to describe about the series. The writers have a way of making it transcend it's core drama and feel very different from just about any other show I can recall. Somehow it feels like pure creative expression that manages to defy outside expectations and tell a story that feels true to life and convey the ambitions of creative people who are fighting to make something beautiful.

AgentCIPHR · 25 days ago
Well said, I rewatch it every few years and few shows come close to making me feel the way this one does.
AgentCIPHR commented on A solver for Semantle   victoriaritvo.com/blog/se... · Posted by u/evakhoury
jml7c5 · 25 days ago
Regarding Semantle, I found that Pimantle (https://semantle.pimanrul.es/) is a much more satisfying implementation to actually play. It provides a 2D visualization of guesses, which lets you see the clusters and lines of similarity more clearly.
AgentCIPHR · 25 days ago
Oooh I love this, thanks for sharing.

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