Halt Continues
Season four of Halt And Catch Fire starts tonight. It's odd there's a season four--or that there was a season three or two. The show has never been particularly popular, or even that critically admired. And the ratings have gone down each season. I guess someone at AMC likes it.
What has stayed the same is the subject, and the leads: Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy, MacKenzie Davis, Kerry Bishe and Toby Huss. The show is a combination of computer wizardry and high emotions. The characters are fictional, so they respond to the latest developments, sometime seeing what the future holds--easy enough to do when a show is set in the past, but useful for dramatic purposes. (Because they're fictional characters, they can innovate, but not create something specific we've heard of.)
This is guaranteed to be the last season. Looks like the World Wide Web is going to be a big thing. Might as well stop there. Once blogs start everything falls apart.
posted by LAGuy @ 10:29 AM
2 Comments:
First season was absorbing - for those of us who lived it. They went to great pains to get the technology environment, the chronological order of major developments, and even the embryonic games correct. It was fun. Thanks
When the show started, some critics said it wanted to be another Mad Men, but set in the computer revolution of the 80s. But the show was too smart for that. And as absorbing as the first season was, each new season it looks at where it is and reinvents itself.
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