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I alternated between laughing and being on the edge of my seat. Enjoyed the show and hope they get renewed.

On a side note (since I have to write a minimal amount), streaming services have really taken a short term view, killing several programs that I really liked. I canceled all but one service for this reason. They need to make a commitment up front. If they can't tell if a show is good or bad, they shouldn't be producing it. I mean, most people can tell after a single episode (sometimes only 15 minutes) whether they are going to like a show or not. Get a panel to preview pilots and then pony up. Shows like Warrior Nun will be bringing in viewers for a decade, at least. I class it with Buffy and Firefly.

I was expecting something like a mashup between Alex Rider and Black Panther. After all we have those as examples of highly successful, modern takes on similar story lines. But what I saw was just... garbage. The kind that has been sitting in the sun for a few days. I couldn't even make it through the first episode. The CW should just kill the show right now and replace it with reruns of something - anything - else.

I haven't seen any reviewers note the metaphor for school shootings. Friends being there one minute, gone the next. Panic, trying to escape. Constant funerals. Survivor guilt. Ineffective government response. Dark humor. No explanation. No answers. Loss, depression, eventual recovery.

This could have been great, but the decision to present this week by week instead of as a season drop makes watching it painful. Each of the first two episodes slowly builds to... the end of the episode. By the time the next episode shows up a week later, we're completely disengaged. This is a serial, not a procedural. Imagine someone swiping your novel each time you get to the end of a chapter - for a week. Yeah, not fun. We'll wait until the season is over and the series shows up on one of the networks that treats viewers better (Netflix, Prime). In the meantime I'll just read the novel.

The intro and outro are longer than the content. About ten sentences of dialog, and the program's over. Better to wait for the edited together re-release, which will probably run for 30 minutes. Watching it the way it is, is a waste of time.

I'm 61, and I've seen a lot of stand-up in my life. This was one of the funniest - totally in the top four.

I caught it on Netflix tonight, and was surprised I hadn't heard of Katherine Ryan before. Now I have to go see if she has additional programs. If not, I hope Netflix has the good sense to hunt down what's available and put it in their catalog.

Iron Fist falls short of previous Netflix Marvel productions.

The writing was sometimes cringe-worthy and while some blame the actors, there's only so much that can be done with a poor script.

The direction was also lacking, with oddly constructed scenes and action. It felt like the actors had little feedback on their performances, which led to the repetitive silliness.

The fight choreography... well, I'm not entirely sure there was any. Unlike Daredevil (for example), where there was a genuine sense of reality in the fight scenes, in Iron Fist it felt like the scenes in Arrow. Unlimited energy, unrealistic combat, no real damage.

That said, it's not actually horrible, and makes for a good weekend binge-watch. Just imagine you're watching a 13-hour Saturday Kung-Fu movie marathon, and set your expectations appropriately.

The first two episodes were great. Starting at episode 3, pretty much everything changed. The plot became simplified. The characters became stupid. Even the effect of the drug changed pretty dramatically. Brian Finch went from the smartest man on the planet on the drug to not even the smartest man in the room.

I don't know what happened. I had watched the first two episodes and told everyone on my social media that the show was great. Then episode 3. Hey maybe just an 'off' episode. Nope, worse at the 4th episode. Episode 5 was my last. It went from a great sci-fi show to a bad cop procedural faster than any show I've ever watched.

I'm sure that behind the scenes someone thought the changes were a good idea. Whoever that was, stop listening to them. They are idiots. They're the folks that cancel Firefly and make other horrible decisions. There are few enough shows worth watching - less every season. We don't need good shows turned into boring garbage for some lowest common denominator goal.

It quickly became clear that this was one of those shows that were centered around a mystery that was never going to be solved before cancellation.

Also, the overuse of shaky cam was starting to cause nausea; if you're similarly sensitive to excessive visual motion, you should probably give this a pass.

The plot is hard to accept, even for a TV show. Unknown person, linked to criminal activity. So the FBI makes them a member of the team and gives them a gun. Durr.

While the initial cluelessness of the lead unknown character was OK for an episode or two, the continued deer in the headlights performance was less than satisfying.

Holy crap, I love this show! How did this get on the USA network? It should have been gobbled up by HBO or Showtime.

This show is like the computer and networking equivalent of a medical or legal drama / thriller, something that's been sorely missing in TV.

USA put the entire pilot online (check YouTube). Everything about this is great: the acting, the script, the casting, the technical accuracy. None of that NCIS "four hands on the keyboard" and "I'll crack your 4K RSA key in 3 minutes" BS. I've never understood why obscure medical terminology is OK, but real computer and networking terminology is practically forbidden.

I could actually watch without constantly being knocked out of the story with stupid TV-OS made up garbage. This will be, by far, my favorite show of the season.

The first episode felt awkward and stilted - probably why it seemed Grace was reading off a teleprompter.

The second episode felt much smoother and natural (well, Grace natural). We have a "three episode minimum rule" for new shows, to account for bad first impressions, and it certainly paid off for The Grace Helbig Show.

Maybe there actually was a teleprompter in the first episode; who knows. But whatever change they made, it produced positive results.

We enjoy Grace's web videos, and having more to watch is always better (remember when there were five videos a week?). I'm kind of sorry that they're censoring it though; it's not broadcast. Can we pretend we're all grownups? Or at least young children? Has anyone seen the comments kids leave on YouTube videos? They know more curse words than the network censors ever will.

We'll keep watching.

While this documentary only covers the early period of Linux and Open Source history (up to about 2000), it provides great insights into how the software industry got itself where it is today.

Of course, since 2000, Linux has made great strides into the server market, the desktop market (even Walmart sells computers with Linux now), and the embedded market. Cell phones, Palm PDAs, cameras, camcorders, cars, networking, Tivo, cable boxes, etc. all run by Linux now (or soon will, according to announcements from manufacturers).

The days when you needed to learn a dozen different operating systems are gone. Learn Linux and you know how everything works. The best part is that if you don't like the way something works, you can change it. That, and it's free! Make copies for all your friends, legally. Tens of thousands of high-quality free software products (office suites, graphics packages, video processing, everything imaginable). Tech support is provided by tens of thousands of volunteers.

It's hard to understand how this change from paying for software to free software happened; for many people not involved in the process, it's still news to them.

If you want to know how this all happened, Revolution OS will give you the background you need to understand the way the software business works now, and in the future.