Sex, drugs, and crypto.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine
• Position: 'Startup' TV series - Briefly Noted - Television program review - Brief article

The first episode of Startup has three sex scenes and a startlingly good description of how cryptocurrency works--and the latter is actually more compelling TV.

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The show debuted in September on Crackle, Sony's bid to compete with Hulu and Netflix. It follows a prickly, sexy hacker (Otmara Marrero), a pretty boy investor (Adam Brody), and a Haitian drug lord with scruples (Edi Gathegi) trying to go legit by building an entrepreneurial venture using the bitcoin competitor she invented. On theirtrail is the inevitable corrupt, conflicted FBI agent (Martin Freeman).

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