Halt and Catch Fire Review: This Show's Gimmicks Are Growing Tired

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Halt and Catch Fire Review: This Show's Gimmicks Are Growing Tired

Episode 2 brings more of the same... but are good performances from the lead actors enough to make up for the repetitive technobabble?

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[lacktheknack]

I kind of want to watch it just because it's named after one of my favorite computer jokes.

 

[gridsleep]

This is a television show? They made this...into a television show. A show about computer designers and developers and programmers. I guess if you take Mad Men and The Big Bang Theory and CSI and mix it all together in a double boiler and pour it into a new mold, you'll get a show that sort of sits in between. A sort of episodic Pirates of Silicon Valley but leaning more toward Soul of a New Machine. Not that I'll be watching. I don't have cable.

 

[Briantb]

I watched the first episode and I was like how the hell did this get approved to be AMC's new show? Its not bad but its really isn't that interesting either.

 

[antigodoflife]

This is probably my new favourite show on TV, it hits in all the right places to me. Also, I'm pretty sure Mackenzie Davis' character, Cameron is textbook aspergers. Hear me out, she's socially awkward/has bad social timing, has a strange fashion sense (military), is uncomfortable in different clothing/looking different, she's incredibly sexually awkward/has bad sexual timing, and most importantly, she has an obnoxious obsession with computers/coding, among other things. I'm sure this will become a larger focus in future episodes and she'll probably have a meltdown by season's end.

 

[McMarbles]

I've been meaning to watch this. Thank god for Ji- I mean, for On Demand.