I watch the show and it's not bad but I don't look forward to the episodes at all. It's one of those I feel more obliged to watch than actually enjoy.
I thought that the first season was reaching to be 'high concept' like Madmen but it failed - not miserably, though. It's reach exceeded its grasp. Most of the time I thought it was flailing around trying to find some meaning in building a better computer. But you can't really do that w/o focusing on the broader industry - which you can't really do w/o it turning into a documentary.
Even the dramatic interactions between the characters often felt contrived. The only ones that really range true where the few scenes between Joe and his father and between Gordon and Donna.
The latest episode bothered me because they seemed to imply that you could multiplex one central office line into many local lines - except I don't think that's how an old pbx system would work. You still need a separate CO line for every call that is active, but I guess I could be wrong about that.
I'm hoping this season is better and by taking the story in a couple different directions, maybe it will be. But I'm not getting my hopes up yet.
