"have you tried turning it off and on again"

already used the line once today and it's only 10am.

(yes. of course. it worked)

Mr. Robot for its hacking scenes. A bit dramatized but much better than the infamous CSI hacking screen.

Silicon Valley. Yes a lot of stuff is exaggerated for comedic effect, but not nearly as much as an outsider would think.

Better Off Ted was always just a little too close to being an accurate portrayal of corporate life. Still one of my all-time favorite sitcoms.

Mr robot for sure. Nobody haha the mainframe by fisting a keyboard. I don't think I caught one inaccurate thing.

Parks & Recreation hits too close to home on dealing with the public.

I doubt you really need to worry about Halt and Catch Fire hurting your education. It’s a narrative show taking place in tech, not a step by step guide to building a bad OS.

Doctors watch Grey’s Anatomy, Cops watch Brooklyn 99, Chefs watch The Bear. I can’t imagine anything you take away from a show will outweigh the reality of you being in the domain day to day. The problem really only applies to careers you aren’t involved in.

That said, I’m in tech and Silicon Valley gets a lot of fun things right (while also being absurd and hyperbolic like any TV show)

Huh… never heard of that show but I’ll be watching it now.

Thanks.

As others have said, Silicon Valley and Mr Robot were pretty close for my area of work.

Halt and Catch Fire doesn't get into the nitty gritty enough to spoil whatever you're studying. It's a really entertaining look at that time period though. If you're gonna wait till after the final, wait because you really don't need this distraction.

Person of Interest did a lot of things right and was often prophetic in the things that were a fantasy.

It had a system that spies on people. A year later Snowden revealed the truth about PRISM.

Contagion was very accurate for pandemics IMO. They got a lot right.

The physics of the space scenes in the Expanse is mostly accurate, but I don't work there :(

Veep is far and away the most accurate political show we’ve ever had

In Halt and Catch Fire one of the main characters uses the term "killer app" which I'm not sure is period correct for the early eighties. Always bugged the crap out of me.

Severance. Pretty accurate to how we feel/are treated working for our corporate overlords. Minus the brain surgery (yet).

I have yet to encounter time travel shenanigans.

Archive 81: Not accurate.

Not a TV show, but one of the Matrix movies (the 2nd IIRC) has Trinity use nmap and a well known exploit at the time to hack into a system.

Scrubs is well known to be the only really accurate depiction of American hospitals. Mostly because it's the only show where nurses even exist.