Hacker Cinema
Scorpion
2014 · TV series · 4 seasons
Created by Nick Santora
Eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits comprise the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats of the modern age. As Homeland Security’s new think tank, O’Brien’s “Scorpion” team includes Toby Curtis, an expert behaviorist who can read anyone; Happy Quinn, a mechanical prodigy; and Sylvester Dodd, a statistics guru.
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OMG, that brief clip was more painful than a whole episode of scorpion.
Thanks for introducing me to something that sets such a low bar on TV technobabble!
Reminds me of a Scorpion episode where Walter automates texts to follow up on a date.
Silicon Valley, Halt & Catch Fire, Scorpion, Mr. Robot. Lots of TV shows center around programmers. As with doctor shows however they don't focus on the medicine but the interactions of the people.
Oh, you reminded me of that horrible horrible TV Series "Scorpion". Could not get past the second episode and watched the second only too see how much more stupid can it get.
Not only do I disagree with the description of Big Bang Theory as "nerd blackface" (and, in fact, find that description offensively trivializing of the actual nature and impact of blackface, but that's getting tangential), but clearly the description is more applicable to Scorpion, in which, unlike Big Bang Theory:
1. All the hyper-intelligent characters that are part of the main recurring cast are male (BBT has a 4:2 gender ratio in the characters portrayed as unusually intelligent),
2. The one female character that is part of the team with those characters is a female who is explicitly part of the team to, as described upthread, "lubricate their social interactions." (BBT has a range of social ineptitude among the intelligent characters, including one of the intelligent female characters as particularly socially inept.)
3. Is, rather than a deliberately and overtly ridiculous sitcom, a drama billed as reality-based.
In the version told in the Star Trek: Voyager episode Scorpion, the girl is a fox and the snake is a scorpion (hence the show's title)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708968/quotes?item=qt0492714
I just watched this episode this morning. I was thinking the same thing. It kind of went off the rails a bit. But the show is based off a comic book and the hacking in this episode is not the most far fetched thing they've done. I just laugh it off as entertainment.
Another show that uses quite a bit of over the top hacking in the plot is Scorpion[1]
[1] http://www.cbs.com/shows/scorpion/