Incredibly prescient show, I loved it at the time and it's definitely worthy of a rewatch soon.

> I also find it pretty crazy and, frankly, a little sad to think that something like the Machine, which seemed like pure science fiction at the time, isn't all that far from our reality today.

Yeah. "You are being watched. The govt. has a secret system - a machine - that spies on you every hour of every day". The opening words from the show's title sequence - Jumped straight to mind after the revelations of Microsoft building "a machine" for the IDF on Azure not so long ago.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-isra...

I love how well done the several versions of this opening statement are depending on the story line.