Halt And Catch Fire [AMC] [** Spoilers **]

Looks good alright.

Halt and Catch Fire is an upcoming 2014 period drama that is set to air on AMC. Its 10-episode first season is slated to premiere on Sunday, June 1, 2014. The name is a reference to the fictitious machine code instruction Halt and Catch Fire (HCF) which causes a computer's central processing unit to cease all meaningful function. The show is set in the early 1980s, and depicts a fictionalized insider's view of the personal computer revolution.

the pilot is available on the usual sources

Watch: AMC Releases the Premiere Episode of 'Halt and Catch Fire' on Tumblr

I'm really excited for this, I think it could be great.

Is 'Halt and Catch Fire' the Next 'Mad Men'?

Did not especially enjoy the pilot. I couldn't care for any of the characters, the amount of clunky exposition put ST Voyager to shame, the whole set up and it was painful how much of an effort was clearly being made to make the show scream 80s!!!!!! Compared to The Americans, a show set in a similar era, it came off really badly. In The Americans characters go about their lives while happening to live in the 80s, in HaCF some of the characters go around with a heavy handed 80s 'tude. It's eye roll inducing but at the same time badly done. Like how when Gordon's family came out of the cinema there were Return of the Jedi posters up, yet not one single person exited the cinema looking as if they'd just come out of Return of the Jedi. It felt like a sloppy imitation of bad 80s movie rather than an 80s setting.

I'll probably watch the next episode to see if it gets better now that the premise has been established and the characters are in place. But I'm not expecting much.

I was primed to like it, but it's just OK so far. I'll continue giving it a chance for a while.

In some ways Silicon Valley felt more insightful, even though it's a comedy. That one didn't hook me in the pilot either, but the season as a whole was strong.

SligoQueries wrote: »

There's no way a stereotypical punk girl like that was involved in the real story of this.

In real life it was three nerdy looking white guys, exactly like you'd expect.

In fiction, they're going to take heat if they made a show with an all male cast, but they could have at least gone with someone more representative of women working in the field and not strained credulity so much. The engineer's wife is a reasonable portrayal, though wouldn't have worked as the outsider.

I just keep seeing Lee Pace as an Elf from The Hobbit films
anyone else thinks that they are trying to make him into the next Don Draper?

This has been really good, can defo see it sticking around for a while. Last nights episode was one of the best so far for me.

donnas on board woot

i didn't realise the thing they showed at the previous comdexshow where he had a meltdown was an electroic piano that donna played i thought it was just another computer

I like Joe and Donna's characters as well. Dislike Cameron's but hate Gordon :pac:

Bosworth is really drinking the Kool-aid as the yanks say

Skerries wrote: »

that was a fantastic episode, I didn't think it was as set in reality as it was but that ending!

please say people are watching this

Great ending.

Great ending.... the promo for the finale was very clever too (no escape, no alternative, no ctrl).

good ending, that was one hell of resignation letter from joe.

poor debbie

what would season 2 be about?

Halt and Catch Fire Bosses Talk Season 2 Hopes, Answer "Burning" Finale Questions
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Halt-and-Catch-Fire-Season1-Finale-Postmortem-1085225.aspx

expectationlost wrote: »

good ending, that was one hell of resignation letter from joe.

poor debbie

what would season 2 be about?

Cardiff Computers battle with Apple for the nascent handheld computer market.

Apple come out with the Newton and change the world.

Did I read somewhere that this is going to be on Netflix in April - worth a watch?

Arciphel wrote: »

Did I read somewhere that this is going to be on Netflix in April - worth a watch?

definitely! one of, if not my favourite new shows last year

Interesting start to season 2 with the soft reboot. I'm in the same boat as most punters in thinking it was a slow burn for the first half of season 1 but that it really started to pick up in the second half.

Not sure I was blown away by this week's episode; felt like they took all the promise that was in the first episode and threw it out the window. This week's episode felt poorly constructed and the writing harked back to the completely unsubtle style of season 1. The Bosworth/Cameron Catherine scene was rushed and took an amazing "a-ha!" moment with two genuinely skilled actors with good screen chemistry and just bumbled through it.

Gordon, who looked like he might get a minor personality reboot in episode 1, reverts immediately back to type and is an overbearing and annoying character. No points awarded to the writers for the least subtle foreshadowing ever in the doctor's office!

Donna/Cameron excel together - this was the single best idea that has played out from the writer's room between season 1 and season 2. They are excellent together and I'm not sure if it's the writing for this pair specifically or it's the acting chops (or a bit of both) but I'd basically watch a show where they're the main characters and Gordon and Joe get written out :pac: - I'm not even going to mention Joe's story in episode 2. It's boring and we all know he won't remain isolated from the group for long.