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I've been enjoying this show, based on a 2014 William Gibson novel. The first season is trickling out and is almost complete.
No spoilers; just watch it. It is pretty satisfying, if all y'all can get over the Texas drawl of a number of main characters. It's Gibson all the way; jack in and enjoy the ride.
While I am at it, I do need to bitch about the video quality of Amazon algorithms. It's sharp, but it sucks in a terrible and pedestrian way: the foreground high contrast images are sharp and good, but out-of-focus backgrounds kind of freeze in a blotchy way, and update at the rate of a few blotches per second.
I am a bit of a purist, having spent the best years of my life developing video-compression algorithms. And my focus was always riding the noise, while all the fools out there were DCT'ing 8x8 blocks of pixels and chopping off arbitrary co-efficients. So I am particularly offended when backgrounds are posterized and blotchy. It's just poor taste.