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I feel sorry for the lead character and he obviously has problems, but the wannabe CTO of EvilCorp reminds me more of Dexter. This is the first TV show I've enjoyed enough to schedule for it in a long time but that character (Tyrell Wellick[1]) is a bit too dark for comfort.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0514444/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2

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Tyrell seems more like Patrick Bateman than Dexter.

Yeah, he's a dead ringer for American Psycho, but with the added twist of his wife being an antagonist.

I'm more scared of his wife - looks like she's the brains in that relationship :-)

She is stunning though but yes, both are psychic but she is by far more scary and has him under total control.

> both are psychic

Their predictions of the future have been a bit off the mark...

By the way, what language do they speak? I get some "hits" in my rudimentary Norwegian language skills. So either a Norwegian dialect or one of the Norse family...

Tyrell speaks Swedish, and his wife speaks Danish.

It's no surprise that you get some "hits" (even with "rudimentary Norwegian language skills"), as the Scandinavian languages are so similar that we generally understand each other – Norwegian speakers even more so, according to Wikipedia [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Germanic_languages#Mutua...

There's also some Macbeth and Hamlet going on here.

Did you catch that she was trying in vain to get a spot out of linens in a recent episode?

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