http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/arts/television/review-inventing-a-better-bitcoin-in-startup-new-on-crackle.html 2016-09-06 00:02:00 Review: Inventing a Better Bitcoin in ‘StartUp,’ New on Crackle This drama brings together an unlikely threesome in Miami in an effort to get a new digital currency off the ground. === Jerry Seinfeld is going to run out of cars someday. Mr. Seinfeld’s droll series She plays Izzy Morales, a tech wizard who thinks she has invented a better Bitcoin, which she calls GenCoin. Her hunt for a financial backer leads her to Nick Talman (Adam Brody), who is restless in his job as a cog in some large financial institution. Nick happens to have money to invest because his father, who operates on the wrong side of the law, has some he needs to hide. Soon the improbable duo of Nick and Izzy becomes an even more improbable threesome: They find themselves in a reluctant partnership with Ronald Dacey (Edi Gathegi), a high-ranking member of a Haitian gang. The series is set in Miami, so of course there are drugs. (Can a location become a cliché? If so, Miami has.) And there is sex, deployed with a dismaying reductiveness; it seems in the first episode as if every character who is introduced has to be immediately shown in bed (or, in one case, in the shower), always gratuitously. “StartUp” is trying to meld the high-finance sheen of series like “Billions” with the gee-whiz digital jargon of, say, “Scorpion,” but it never seems innovative, only imitative. The casting, however, is refreshing, even if the plot strains credulity. Ms. Marrero is the find, giving her blunt, brainy character an appealing pithiness. Izzy, who is Cuban-American, is an outsider trying to break into the tech bubble, knowing she has a marketable idea but unable to get insiders to take her seriously. You might find yourself wishing that the character and the actress would make their way into a more believable series.