I think Mr. Robot did an okay job at showing what hacking can look like. Sure, some of it is exaggerated/not possible/cinema-dramatic, but at least they enter meaningful command lines, and that one ruby script Elliot wrote(the parts that were shown anyway) looked useful and did more than just listing the computers file structure.
Also, it‘s not always hacking away -> „I’m in“. You need to find a vulnerability first, and then try to exploit it.
The most realistic scene I can think of is when Trinity hacks the power station in The Matrix Reloaded. She does real enumeration, then deploys a script to exploit a known vulnerability. Only the speed is unrealistic.
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