Im assuming that the internet of the future is based on a viewer based economy, which has been proposed by futurists tons of times - facebook friends, twitter followers, etc are becoming a new kind of prestige and class system. That the Darknet perhaps works mostly on this sort of economy, and somethow remains funded…

The showw is not bad, but it's what's to be expected as it's based on Grimes' own novel. It's way to self-agrandizing of the CIA while at the same time being grounded in a realism like Tinker Tailor. Grimes is basically too perfect. I mean the CIA fuck up three times in this episode, and I don't see them react in…

After everything Scrubs did for him!

No. She's about as convincing as Siri in reading her lines, but she has a wider range of emotion. By that I mean she has the emotional modes she goes to - i.e "crying" and "angry" and "determined", but those are about as convincing as one of those "real crying baby" dolls.

But Spader is not Bruce Willis. If he turns out to be Alan Rickman than that would be a good but predictible twist.

I thought the receptionist was an android or something, and they had special android stopping guns. That the name was part of it.

Unfortunately the overwrought terrorist name sounded so generic to me, I worried about the opposite.

It's really a mish mash of all futures we have seen that aren't post apocalyptic.

Ealy as a stand in for minorities I thought was the right take, but gay? That is interesting. The only ones allowed to joine the police force are out, but regimented and toned down to make their partners comfortable. Of course this applies to racial minorities, too.

You got it wrong, the US annexed Canada during the Franchise Wars.

It hasn't been said, strangely enough. Unfortunately that part of the world building is at issue with me. I get a Chicago vibe from it, it seems to be a mix of San Angeles (Blade Runner) and Robocop's Detroit.

As I said above, two shows last night tried to pull a Die Hard (now a trope variation of the Bottle Show), and this one was the best.

You assume that it's capable of doing so in its current state.

I want to see them go up against some sort of Luddite guerilla movement, that finds weaknesses in overreliance on tech and exploits that rather than use crazy advanced tech themselves.

I hope we meet his personality programmer or whatever equivalent there is, because Dorian is the kinda guy I want to hang out and not have a beer with.

So this and Blacklist did the Die Hard bottle show, and Almost Human won by a longshot. They had a little help from Lethal Weapon, sure, but it was a great ride.

Yeah, she's just not convincing as a hard as nails FBI agent with a heart or whatever she's supposed to be.

Im voting for Queenie for Supreme.

Kudos to them for keeping it secret then.

You know what might have been an interesting tie in? Wrecking Crew. Problem is now if they're ever introduced, they'd have a similar origin.