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| HBO | National Geographic | Season Premiere Date: January 13, 2019 |
Summary:
Matthew Carnahan's six-part limited series mixes real-life documentary interviews with scripted drama to illustrate the rise and fall of three early 1990s dot-coms: Netscape, the early web browser; TheGlobe.com, an early social network; and Pixelon, a video streamer.
Creator:
Matthew Carnahan
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary, Tech & Gaming
Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E7. Part 5: Segfault
Air Date: January 27, 2019
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S1:E7. Part 5: Segfault
Air Date: January 27, 2019
Jan 14, 2019
Jan 11, 2019
An idea that works when it probably shouldn't and, in fact, generates a considerable amount of joy and entertainment as it moves quickly through an important and complicated retelling of not only the "browser wars" that kicked off when the internet was something people had never heard of, but also the myriad other elements at play in the period.
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Jan 14, 2019
Each chapter’s pace flows well, but there can be a herky-jerky energetic inconsistency between episodes as Carnahan throws in one diversionary gimmick after another. ... Such contrivances come at the expense of gravitas, but given the frequent opacity of the stories behind what actually happened, a viewer can’t fault Carnahan too severely for doing all he could possibly do to keep the story light and limber.
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TV Guide Magazine
Jan 3, 2019
With everyone playing to the camera, from actors who break the fourth wall to their real-life counterparts who sit for interviews, the result is system overload. Boom is entertaining yet can be exhausting as it is illuminating. [7-20 Jan 2019, p.11]
IndieWire
Jan 9, 2019
Dec 20, 2018
The portion of this hybrid scripted-nonfiction show drawn from interviews with real-world tech pioneers and scenesters (among them, recognizable faces including Mark Cuban and Arianna Huffington) is light but enlightening. By contrast, the time the show spends dramatizing the stories its talking heads explain is poorly spent, spinning a relatively thin narrative into a six-episode run through repetitious and tiring use of post-modern storytelling techniques that are as tired today as a dial-up modem.
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Collider
Jan 10, 2019
Valley of the Boom’s skimming voyage across the biggest moments in Silicon Valley’s late-90s scene is educational, and even a little nostalgic. But it also feels like a missed opportunity to dive deeper into what should have been learned (and wasn’t) in terms of tech growth, or to explore a different prospective other than from those who happened to ride a investment wave at exactly the right time.
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Mar 9, 2019
I thought it was rather boring, I feel the entire series could have been rapped up in one episode.
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Air Date: January 13, 2019
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S1:E7. Part 5: Segfault
Air Date: January 27, 2019
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S1:E7. Part 5: Segfault
Air Date: January 27, 2019
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