Hope Dragon is back and healthy.
Are people really that simple minded that their mind defaults into thinking every character and scene from the new boys season somehow promotes upcoming shows in the universe?!?
Like a character can still have good scenes and be well written while promoting?!?
I genuinely think the hate for the new season is as simple as a hate train that everyone has jumped on.
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Seriously, go back and watch it now. I just did.
... Media corporations controlling politics, AI-generated personalities replacing humans, information overload, advertising infecting everything, cynical news culture, society numbed by nonstop entertainment... it was basically predicting the internet age before most people even owned a VCR.
And Matt Frewer absolutely crushed that role. The stuttering delivery could have been a gimmick, but instead it became iconic. The show had this weird cyberpunk satire vibe that somehow felt goofy and genuinely unsettling at the same time.
Also worth giving a shout out to Charles Rocket, who was perfect in that slick corporate-media-world role, and Chris Young as Bryce Lynch, the brilliant socially awkward hacker kid before Hollywood turned that archetype into a cliché. Bryce honestly felt more authentic than most “genius hacker” characters that came decades later. (Best line from Bryce IMHO: "there's no such thing as a failed experiment, there's just more data.")
It’s one of those shows that looked bizarre in the 80s but feels uncomfortably plausible now.