The problem with this documentary is the acted out interviews of Claude Shannon, his wife and the interviewer... who all unfortunately come across as amateur actors even though they aren't. The pausing for every thought is tedious to watch. The construct detracts from the actual information contained in the documentary and seems to take up at least a third of the overall running time. It made me think that I was watching some sort of mockumentary at first.

As a software engineer, admittedly my desires for this documentary skewed more to the academic side than what might interest other viewers, but even then, the explanations were so superficial that I don't see how any of us could find this fulfilling.

In regards to the equivalence between circuitry and Boolean logic, there were a few equations that flashed up for half a second.

For the connection to entropy, an even briefer flash of an equation, with even less explanation about what any of the symbols are referring to.

When researchers introduced a proof of concept for the Shannon limit, the narrative was "fancy that, these French and Thai people who I was ignoring happened to have made an incredible discovery. I wouldn't have thought it would be them." Who is this woman giving us her gossipy take on information theory? I didn't come for your cattiness, I wanted to hear *explanations* of Shannon's insights, along with his personal history.

In terms of personal history, he wasn't a rock star or anything, so that wasn't sufficiently interesting to keep things going. What we ended up with was a simplistic tale of "smart guy did this and that thing which you don't really understand. Computers and tech and stuff".

Incessant mentions of how he was the founder for all this, while mentioning Von Neumann just once; and Turing, never! Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace similarly got no mention at all. What a waste of material for a piece of entertainment.

Let me make this clear from the start. My review is in no way targeted at the real Mr. Shannon, who indeed was a great and very interesting man.

I am very much talking about this so called documentary, which fails at almost every level. What made me quit it about halfway through though was the absolutely abysmal acting of Judith Ivey and even more John Hutton as Mrs. and Mr. Shannon.

I have rarely seen such merciless and annoying overplaying. Any person from the street would have done a better job and it totally destroyed the rest for me.

This was not a documentary, but a totally failed attempt at quote - entertainment - based on facts. A mumbling and nervously laughing John Hutton pretending to be Claude Shannon makes it a really bad TV-movie and I am not into that.