Set at the dawn of the tech industry boom of the 1980's, this drama follows a group of fictional individuals that help birth the technology that makes today's world possible. Two couples, a tech savvy married couple and a lusty on-again-off-again pair, team up with their old boss to ride the wave of the tech revolution. However, the main character of this series is technology itself. How quickly it became irrevocably entwined into our everyday lives, American life, and the entire world. Everything we use today, everyday, got its origins from human imagination and this fictionalized account of that genesis is both fun and nostalgic. If you were born in the 80s, you can peg the stages of your life based on what stage technology had advanced: from DOS, to Windows, to the internet, to social media. This series takes you through much of that timeline in a way that gets you excited about the history of it.
The storyline with the characters provides the human element to this tech tale. One of the characters has a self-destructive streak, which makes you go "omg, what's he going to do next?!?" He also has that necessary blend of genius and madman that is an absolute must for this kind of story. I do appreciate the endings for most of the characters. The characters move away from each other and back again through the course of the story since it takes place over many years. I also have to admit, I don't ever tire of watching "geeks" make money. Like, mega money. And drive pretty cars. A story about people having the brains, the ingenuity, and the passion to change the world and reaping the rewards from that is the American dream. That force of energy is the driving emotion in this series and carries the characters through their other more personal trials from beginning to end.
