I wish H&CF got more Emmy love, then it'd be harder to shut it down due to critical acclaim (imagine USA trying to ditch Mr Robot after all the Golden Globes and Emmy glory of the past year). But ah well…

Well, it's certainly between Saul and this for the current throne in this post-Mad Men, post-Breaking Bad AMC world. They would do right to hold on to both shows as long as they can and not end a great thing here.

Funnily enough I first got online as a high schooler in the early/mid 90s with Prodigy and AOL. Never used CompuServe myself, but remember seeing other people's addresses (those iconic numbers-based usernames!).

But it's got to be a slightly-alternate world, because Mutiny is so much like that LucasFilm (before LucasArts) social/chat/game/avatar program "Habitat" and yes, MacMillan's Citadel anti-virus is clearly a McAfee nod, etc. etc.

Great point…. hadn't thought about how Joe's interactions with his own board kinda bode ill for what Cameron with a board of directors would be like.

I think it was a little of both. Donna lied to her that Diane said they couldn't just up and fire the two SwapMeet guys and so she had to stomach them… and after the asshole one called her a man-hating bitch, she had a one-on-one with the nicer one to see if she could get along with them, even asking him if he'd be…

I think she actually did more of the delegating stuff to coders work back at Cardiff, but she had just gotten rid of that odious manager she couldn't stand and was probably trying to impress Joe with how well she could run the software side of things. She no longer has all those motivations, since it's her company and…

Also true, but Cameron's pretty blunt and honest. If she really didn't want to IPO EVER, I think she'd have just come out and said it. Especially during that meeting before it got heated.

Yeah… they coulda… shoulda… woulda… but TV show and all.

I don't think that Gordon giving Cameron a heads-up about Donna's IPO rush job scheming constitutes a betrayal of Donna necessarily, but I do agree that the timing was pretty awful.

I don't think it's that Donna thinks Cameron is replaceable, I think it's more that Donna thinks Cameron will come round after she calms down and not end up quitting.

Yeah, I gotcha. If she's a bit too resistant to the IPO and Donna's a bit too rushing into it… Donna's thinking of everyone getting paid and Cameron's perhaps a bit too trusting that their valuation will remain high for 1-2 years.

Yeah. Look at how much work and effort Joe has had to put in to attain any technical sophistication… right up to going to school to learn to code and running into a professorial Cameron there (props to him for not being too embarassed, though!).

How I feel about the direction in this episode in terms of where the rest of this season is going depends so much on whether there's going to be a season 4 or not…

I can't wait to see Cameron's version of burning the first delivery truck full of Cardiff Giants…. egad.

I mean, her ideas aren't always terrible… but when she's set in her ways and has her mind fixed on something being the way to do it… she just has a super stubborn resistance to others' ideas.

Also, it seems like what they're fighting about is IPO IMMEDIATELY vs. IPO 2 years from now. Whereas Donna sounded (earlier in the episode) as if 3 months out was a possibility and Camera seemed to be giving a 1-2 year range for all her plans to be implemented.

My wife and I binged season 1 in two days weekend before last and then season 2 during the evenings last week… so we were all caught up and watched last week's ep on the weekend and this week's ep live.

Luby's has fried okra. But it's a Texas cafeteria chain, so it isn't as widespread as Cracker Barrel.

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