Halt and Catch Fire 3 Seasons 2014

Season 1

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AMC's Halt and Catch Fire: In 1983, personal computing was anyone's game. The battle for CTRL begins. Only on AMC.

Starring:: Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy

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1. I/O

Rise of the PC era in the early 1980s.

TV-14 CC Language: English Runtime: 47 minutes Release date: June 1, 2014

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2. FUD

Joe faces off against IBM.

TV-14 CC Language: English Runtime: 43 minutes Release date: June 8, 2014

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3. High Plains Hardware

Joe needs capital to keep the lights on.

TV-14 CC Language: English Runtime: 42 minutes Release date: June 15, 2014

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4. Close to the Metal

Crisis threatens the future PC program.

TV-14 CC Language: English Runtime: 43 minutes Release date: June 22, 2014

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5. Adventure

Cameron bristles under a new manager.

TV-14 CC Language: English Runtime: 43 minutes Release date: June 29, 2014

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6. Landfall

A hurricane spurs personal revelations.

TV-14 CC Language: English Runtime: 42 minutes Release date: July 6, 2014

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7. Giant

Joe receives a visitor from his past.

TV-14 CC Language: English Runtime: 42 minutes Release date: July 13, 2014

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8. The 214s

Bosworth makes a sacrifice for the PC.

TV-14 CC Language: English Runtime: 42 minutes Release date: July 20, 2014

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9. Up Helly Aa

Complications menace the PC at COMDEX.

TV-14 CC Language: English Runtime: 42 minutes Release date: July 27, 2014

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10. 1984

The team takes stock after COMDEX.

TV-14 CC Language: English Runtime: 42 minutes Release date: August 3, 2014

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Bonus: The Characters of Halt and Catch Fire: Cameron Howe

Meet Halt and Catch Fire's Cameron Howe.

TV-14 CC Language: English Runtime: 1 minute Release date: January 1, 2014

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Bonus: Halt and Catch Fire: A Look at the Series

Go behind the scenes of AMC's new show.

TV-14 CC Language: English Runtime: 2 minutes Release date: January 1, 2014

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Product Details

Genres	Drama
Director	Juan Jose Campanella, Karyn Kusama
Starring	Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy
Supporting actors	Mackenzie Davis, Kerry Bishé, Toby Huss, August Emerson, Alana Cavanaugh, Morgan Hinkleman, Nick Pupo, Cooper Andrews, Gabriel Manak, Joshua Hoover, J. Elijah Cho, Mark O'Brien, Aleksa Palladino, Eric Goins, Justin Randell Brooke, Pete Burris, Randall P. Havens, Annabeth Gish
Season year	2014
Network	AMC
Purchase rights	Stream instantly Details
Format	Amazon Video (streaming online video)

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Love it as season one continues!

By Obi Wan TOP 100 REVIEWER on June 2, 2014

Be clear about what you are getting here. This is not a documdrama about actual events. It's a completely fabricated story with fictional characters based on things that happened in the 80's.

So you have to enjoy this as a fictional story, not as a dramatized version of reality.

That being said the opening episode was really captivating. I mean it's a challenge to get viewers glued to their seats watching 2 nerds hack a bios chip using LED's on a bread board to spell out individual characters in hexidecmial code, but somehow AMC pulled it off!

I was so captivated that I kept getting angry when it went to commercial.

The lead character (Joe MacMillian, played by Lee Pace) is a complete ass. Sort of like a Don Draper type, and it's a safe bet that AMC is looking to capture that essense with this character since it worked so well in Mad Men. You want to hate him, but you can't help but to be impressed by him.

The chief software engineer (Gordon Clark, played be Scoot McNairy) is an everyman's anti-hero. He is a simple family man who most of us can relate to. He has a ton of potential in terms of his computer engineering abilities. But in order to use his talent he has to do something semi illegal by reverse engineering how IBM bios software was written on their proprietary chip. He doesn't intend to just copy IBM's work. He just intends to look at it to see how it's made, similar to a chair maker lookign at another chair to see how it's put together. So you find yourself rooting for him.

The female lead (Cameron Howe, played by Mackenzie Davis) is not a well explored character in the pilot so it's hard to see where they are going with her.Read more ›

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Selling Self-Destruction -- Halt and Catch Fire

By EisNinE on August 12, 2014

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This brilliant 10-episode series takes the viewer into terra incognita in terms of television storytelling. With movies like 'The Social Network' (*****/*****) and 'Jobs' (**/*****) exposing a widespread public interest in the history of computing, 'Halt and Catch Fire' gives us a fictional behind the scenes look at the dawn of the PC revolution. Set in 1983, we follow the struggle of a small Texan electronics company to build a better PC, a featherweight journeyman talked into a fight with the uncontested heavyweight champion of computing, IBM. Lee Pace gives an incredible performance as Joe MacMillan, the slick former IBM exec who manipulates the employees and management of Cardiff Electric, pushing them into the development of a PC that will outperform IBM's machines. The fact that he's playing with the jobs and livelihood of hundreds of people doesn't seem to bother MacMillan; but his core personality is buried under so many layers and masks and lies, even he seems confused about who he really is and what he truly feels. Scoot McNairy, who was excellent in 'Killing Them Softly', once again impresses as Gordon Clark, a family man working as an engineer at Cardiff. Though he and his wife have settled into safe, dull jobs, the two were once idealistic geniuses who developed a radical and promising new take on personal computing; unable to sell it, however, their project was ultimately a failure, and the couple abandoned their dreams to support their child. MacMillan seeks out Clark as his partner, and eventually manages to rekindle the idealistic spark. He then recruits a prodigious code programmer and punk-rock college student who is far ahead of everyone else, played perfectly by Mackenzie Davis.Read more ›

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10 Episode First Season is Worth a Season Pass

By Richard P. Comerford on June 13, 2014

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So Halt and Catch Fire debuted the same Sunday HBOs Silicon Valley ended their 8 episode season.
Silicon Valley is a genuinely great comedy about the present day.
Halt & Catch Fire is a very serious but also very good show about the early 80s beginnings of personal computers.
Only two episodes have aired so far.
But I love the stylish cinematography, the electronic score by Tangerine Dream member Paul Haslinger,
and Mackenzie Davis makes a good cyberpunk.
The lead Lee Pace is not a good guy, more of an amoral anti-hero.
The engineer is more of a stereotypical computer nerd, and I'm a Kerry Bishe fan who plays his wife and also works for Texas Instruments, not a housewife.
It's an unpredictable show, no way to know for sure what will happen next.

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By John A Gurule on June 2, 2014

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Good characters with stellar acting. Appeals to the nerd in all of us and is spot on. Love the interactions between the characters and is flawless.

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Authentic and Engaging - Hurry up Season 2

By A. Jackson on July 31, 2015

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If you were in high school or college from 1980-1988 and intro computers, you need to watch this show. Outstanding attention to detail and very clever tie-ins to the real world. Very far-fetched, but a great ride.

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If it's good enough for the inventor of the internet it's good enough for me!

By D. C. Cocke on June 16, 2016

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Found out about this series from a Tim Ferriss Podcast with Marc Andreesen, who recommended it. According to him, all the things in the series that you think are too crazy or would never happen, happened at startups he's aware of. I like the 1980s-era vibe, kind of like The Americans in that regard.

My only gripe, and it's minor, is that the series is supposed to be in Dallas, but the neighborhoods they show don't look like any part of Dallas I've ever seen--too many hills and trees.

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I was writing code starting in the late 70's and ...

I was writing code starting in the late 70's and early 80's. This brings back some of those trials and tribulations. Read more

Published 3 days ago by Daniel L. Isley, Jr.

So far so good. Three strong characters. Good period piece. Tad overacted but fine.

Published 20 days ago by Robert OBrien

running out of steam

Interesting story but I think its running out of steam

Published 1 month ago by Rene'

Interesting subject for a fairly good dramatic series.

We bought this on the recommendation of my wife's son. As my wife and I are both retired computer professionals, it was quite interesting. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Rick C.

love it

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Awesome show. Totally luv it! Cameron and Donna are so badass and are my idols.

Published 1 month ago by Makayla Gurick

Glad to be catching up on this series

The details are mythical, but the culture of the early PC/Internet era...and Texas in season 1, are well captured. Glad to be catching up on this series.

Published 1 month ago by Terry M.

Wanted to like this show . . .

I wanted to like this show. I really did! However, randomly and senselessly killing 3 animals in 4 episodes for NO reason was a HUGE turn-off for me. Read more

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