Brody is charmingly well-cast as the perpetually clueless guy who mostly succeeds with his good looks Gathegi is a thrilling performer adding dimension to the thankless role of “thug” and though Marrero isn’t quite as compelling, her character at least comes part and parcel with a loud and dysfunctional family that is more fun to watch than 90 percent of the rest of the show. ![]() It’s with Nick (Adam Brody), Izzy (Otmara Marrero), and Roland (Edi Gathegi) that the cross-cultural founding of GenCorp emerges, and each supporting character offers different strengths to the plot. The prestige drama tropes swirl around him - antihero! repression! good cop gone bad! - but the actual story seems to run in the other direction. The odd thing, too, is that Freeman, as the show’s Big Bad, is largely superfluous. But it’s also that “Startup” is playing with pornographic imagery because it assumes that is what makes a drama “prestigious,” when in fact it is padding its episodes with pointless, male-gazing sex scenes because it doesn’t know what else to do with all the time it has to fill its 10-episode order. Perhaps that is why episode three opens in a brothel. Freeman is the FBI agent - and though one cannot laud his choice of roles, he plays Phil Rask with unsettling repressed anger, a lot of it tied up in resentment towards women. Watch it on Amazon Prime □□ Girlboss NastyGal Brand Storyīased on real events, Girlboss is the story of Nasty Gal's founder Sophia Amoruso that chronicles the millennial's rags-to-riches rise from thrift store hustler to vintage fashion empire and her famous hastag #GIRLBOSS.“Startup” is a hacking thriller grafted onto an action movie, primarily so that Martin Freeman can walk around menacingly while speaking in an unsettlingly bland American accent. This series centers around a visionary founder, an engineer and a tech prodigy whose ideas confront the corporate status quo of the time led by companies like IBM. This fictional show takes place during the 1980s and is based on the technological boom at the onset of personal computing. Watch it on HBO □□ Halt and Catch Fire 1980s Startup Boom The parallels to real tech giants and startup scenarios is clear. The series is a parody of Silicon Valley culture, starting Thomas Middleditch, a programmer who founds the fictional startup Pied Piper, and his biggest competitor tech giant Hooli. The cryptocurrency drama is on the darker side and is not based on a true story, but shows the length they will go through to protect their ideas, their families, and change the system.Ī hilarious satire about the world of startups, this well-researched yet, over-the-top parody is funny and entertaining because it's true. The rebel team, led by a brilliant female coder comes up with the idea for a new digital currency she creates on the blockchain and dubs "GenCoin". Startup is the story of an unlikely trio in Miami (A Haitian-American, Cuban-American and American) that form a bond to rail against the US financial system and the circumstances that suppress them. It's a wild ride of business deception, lies and fraud. Amanda Seyfried plays the Stanford dropout with a vision health care testing that could run hundreds of blood tests on a single drop of blood. The story of health-tech startup Theranos and the real-life, bizarre and fascinating story of tech charlatan Elizabeth Holmes. This show is based on the best-selling book "Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber" by Mike Isaac and dramatizes one of Silicon Valley's most successful and destructive companies. This TV series starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a dramatized retelling that chronicles how Uber disrupted the long untouched taxi industry and the outing of it's CEO Travis Kalanick. Watch it on Apple TV □□ SuperPumped The Uber Story It's a real look into the 'cult-like' nature of tech startups that examines what really motivates and influences us in the workplace. The series starting Jared Leto and Anne Hathway reenacts and retells the story that began in 2010, of the shared workspace company's growth to billions of dollars in valuation and a botched IPO. WeCrashed The WeWork Storyįollow the meteoric rise and love of eccentric WeWork founder Adam Neumann. Here is a list of tv series and tv shows about these larger-than-life tech companies (both dramatized and fictional) and the eye-opening and entertaining retelling of startup stories, their triumphs and troubles, and the rise and fall of the eccentric founders who created them. ![]() Tech startup culture and the time of Silicon Valley unicorns like Uber and WeWork had a fascinating impact on tech and what UX/UI, Product Designers and engineers do.
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