Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-20 (Thursday)

On Feb 21, 2025 at 10:46:31 AM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:34:21 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 
I watched the first couple of episodes of ZERO DAY. This is a new show
just released on the Netflix. The premise is it is a modern day and we
are watching the day of an ex President. He is having a meeting with a
representative of a publisher who has paid the ex-President for a
book. She's supposed to help the book come together but the President
isn't interested in the help so she leaves. Then we see her car get
rammed by a train as it turns out the nation is under attack.
 
Someone has managed to initiate a cyber attack that has shut down
every electronic device across the nation for one minute and then they
turned them all back on. The attackers then put a message on every
phone that the attack will return.
 
So with people freaking out the President forms a commission to find
the people responsible.  The ex-President is called on to head up the
commission which has been given far reaching abilities to find the
guilty parties. Which it turns out looks to be the Russians but isn't.
 
What did you watch?

Episode 4 of PRIME TARGET on the Apples. This is turning out to be a really
good show.

About a Cambridge post-doc math student whose life starts unraveling when he
turns in his proposed thesis about some revolutionary new math concept
involving prime numbers, and his mentor immediately freaks out and burns the
student's work before (supposedly) going home and killing himself. Then people
start following the student and he learns another Cambridge student proposed
the same theory back in the 90s and she died under mysterious circumstances
and her work was scrubbed from the archives. Meanwhile, the NSA has prominent
mathematicians all over the world under surveillance so they can be alerted if
any of them come up with something that could affect national security and the
analyst who's assigned to the student and his mentor starts asking questions
which ends up getting her whole team slaughtered and her on the run.