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The Dropout
2022 · Drama
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During the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, an unlikely trio - a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy - take personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world as they know it.
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Lee Pace
Joe MacMillan
Scoot McNairy
Gordon Clark
Mackenzie Davis
Cameron Howe
Kerry Bishé
Donna Clark
Toby Huss
John 'Bos' Bosworth
Aleksa Palladino
Sara Wheeler
Scott Michael Foster
Hunt Whitmarsh
Will Greenberg
Brian Braswell
Randy Havens
Stan
Alana Cavanaugh
Haley Clark
Graham Beckel
Nathan Cardiff
Mike Pniewski
Barry Shields
James Cromwell
Jacob Wheeler
Manish Dayal
Ryan Ray
Morgan Hinkleman
Joanie Clark
Mark O'Brien
Tom Rendon
Annabeth Gish
Diane Gould
Kathryn Newton
Joanie Clark
Matthew Lillard
Ken Diebold
Chelsea Talmadge
Vera
Benedict
March 2, 2017
**Perhaps the best show on television.** I found myself a new favourite among TV series. Exceedingly strong performances from the whole cast, a gripping, dynamic plot, and script and direction that will have you laughing aloud before hunkering at the edge of your seat. As TV goes, I honestly don’t think it gets much better than this. The character of Joe MacMillan is just unrivalled in complexity and depth. Lee Pace…
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CarsonTrent
November 24, 2021
An interpretation of the ending + the meaning of the series as a whole * * * SPOILERS AHEAD * * * It was about Joe all along. Profound conclusion to a transcendental experience 10*++ At first glance this series seems to be about the world of tech. It takes place during an exciting time in the evolution of this field and it gives us a glimpse into the background of that era, even if it is a fictitious account. But thi…
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July 5, 2026
This is an unusual show. It is conspicuously missing the stuff of a typical drama (ie: shoot-outs, nudity, car chases). In place of hyperdrama are the deepest and best characters in a TV series. The recount of the origin of personal computing is fictional and a mild abstraction from the real one so you won't learn much about personal computing history but you will absolutely learn about the type of people, the drive…
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