The Billion Dollar Code
The Billion Dollar Code Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.4 |
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About
"Scrappy dreamers versus a tech giant's amnesia"
This German miniseries tells the true-ish story of a scrappy group of Berlin artists and hackers who, in the 1990s, built an early virtual-globe program called Terravision, then years later sued Google over Google Earth. It cuts between the giddy, analog-tech creativity of their youth and a tense courtroom battle in their middle age. The tone is part hacker-nostalgia hangout, part underdog legal drama, moving briskly across four episodes. It's carried by warm performances and a genuine sense of wonder about early digital invention, even when the courtroom stuff feels more functional.
the nostalgic, lovingly detailed recreation of 90s hacker culture and early internet invention.
you want a tightly plotted legal thriller rather than a nostalgic character piece.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Episode #1.1 | 8.0 | 439 | 68 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Episode #1.2 | 7.9 | 359 | 63 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Episode #1.3 | 8.0 | 345 | 59 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Episode #1.4 | 8.4 | 357 | 77 min |