![]() ![]() It’s one of the main reasons I had trouble getting into the television series Arrow during season one-it was lousy with Surface tablets.”Īpparently Microsoft is pushing this thing even further. But telling me a company so advanced they’ve invented time travel is passing out Surface tablets to all of its employees? That’s just silly. “I love Surface tablets,” he wrote in an article titled “ Quantum Break's Microsoft Product Placement Is Killing Me.” “It’s a fine product. “However, the idea that an entire group of various people with various income levels and various backgrounds use the same brand is just bad representation.” Over at Kotaku, Mike Fahey had a similar response to another show. “I find it completely believable that a young doctor living in the city would use a Surface Pro or a Nokia Lumia 930,” Molly McHugh at The Daily Dot wrote of The Mindy Project. Splinter’s Katherine Kreuger also found the Microsoft placements in Get Out absurd, especially the use of Bing. I’m not the only one who has noticed all the unnatural Surface plugs. Unless they live in the alternate universe of Hollywood-produced TV and film, in which case, they do. But nobody just casually… pulls out a Surface. ![]() I had adjusted my suspension-of-disbelief dial to accept literally everything about the Marvel universe, and was along for the ride until Wesley pulled out that Surface. With the sound on, it’s supposed to be the man in the suit - James Wesley, the show’s main villain’s right-hand man - threatening the man on the bench, Clyde Farnum, a cop who is deep in debt, by showing him live video of his daughter and threatening to kill her if Farnum doesn’t cooperate. If the show were muted, this is genuinely what the scene would look like. The first man’s mouth drops open, stunned at the versatility of this next-generation tablet/laptop hybrid. He whips out a device from the Microsoft Surface line, stands it up on the table using its built-in kickstand, and begins a product demonstration by streaming video to its high-resolution display. The first man tries to brush him off and starts to walk away, but the man in the suit stops him. He is approached by another man in a dark suit who sits down next to him. In the first episode of the first season of Daredevil, a middle-aged man is sitting alone in a park eating a sandwich. ![]()
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