Gordon Clark may no longer be with us, but he still appears in flashbacks throughout Saturday’s Halt and Catch Fire.
We begin the episode at the end of the Fourth of July weekend in 1977. Gordon and Donna are living in a small San Francisco apartment with baby Joanie, and the in-laws have just left for the airport. After Donna brings up her parents’ offer to buy them a house if they move back to Dallas, the young couple gets into an argument. Donna isn’t opposed to her folks’ idea, but Gordon wants to stay in California and build a computer.
We begin the episode at the end of the Fourth of July weekend in 1977. Gordon and Donna are living in a small San Francisco apartment with baby Joanie, and the in-laws have just left for the airport. After Donna brings up her parents’ offer to buy them a house if they move back to Dallas, the young couple gets into an argument. Donna isn’t opposed to her folks’ idea, but Gordon wants to stay in California and build a computer.
- 10/8/2017
- TVLine.com
Warning: The following post-mortem interview contains major spoilers from Saturday’s Halt and Catch Fire. Do not proceed unless you’ve finished watching Season 4, Episode 7: “Who Needs a Guy.”...
- 10/1/2017
- TVLine.com
The fourth and final season of AMC’s excellent Halt and Catch Fire features a Veep alum from tonight — Anna Chlumsky! Anna plays brainy library scientist Dr. Katie Herman in the potboiler, which sees her character accept a job inside Silicon Valley startup Comet. She will work alongside Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy) and Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace), with previews suggesting she will reach a “personal crossroad” in her new position. In our clip below, Chlumsky’s character hired as “Chief Ontologist” after an amusing send-up where she talks about classifying her brother’s death-metal CD collection. Viewers first fell in love with...read more...
- 9/9/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Halt and Catch Fire reboots again in its fourth and final season, which is now 10 years removed from when we first met tech visionaries Joe MacMillan, Cameron Howe, Gordon Clark and Donna Clark Emerson.
RelatedHalt and Catch Fire EPs Talk ’90s Pop Culture, Lee Pace’s ‘Stupid’ Haircut
Saturday’s two-hour premiere features the AMC drama’s second major time jump in just three episodes, quickly moving the story along to the year 1994. It’s a creative decision that has not only given creators Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers a means to have Joe and Cameron reconnect, but...
RelatedHalt and Catch Fire EPs Talk ’90s Pop Culture, Lee Pace’s ‘Stupid’ Haircut
Saturday’s two-hour premiere features the AMC drama’s second major time jump in just three episodes, quickly moving the story along to the year 1994. It’s a creative decision that has not only given creators Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers a means to have Joe and Cameron reconnect, but...
- 8/20/2017
- TVLine.com
It’s easy to look at AMC’s “Halt and Catch Fire” going into its fourth and final season as a completely different show than the one that premiered in 2015. The drama series about technology gurus in the early days of the 1980s computer boom initially told a story about two colleagues — Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) and Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy) — who were engaged in a Steve Jobs vs. Steve Wozniak style relationship. Working to create an Ibm competitor, the two clashed on producing hardware and how to market the products. Season 2, however, presented a dramatic shift. Joe and...
- 8/17/2017
- by Carli Velocci
- The Wrap
Veep‘s Anna Chlumsky has signed on for a recurring role in the fourth and final season of AMC’s period drama series Halt and Catch Fire. Chlumsky will play Dr. Katie Herman, Chief Ontologist, a crucial role in this season’s Search business venture. Halt and Catch Fire chronicles the tech industry and the birth of the Internet in the 1980s and early 1990s. Chlumsky will join stars Lee Pace as Joe MacMillan, Mackenzie Davis as Cameron Howe, Scoot McNairy as Gordon Clark…...
- 6/9/2017
- Deadline TV
Author: Andy Furlong
We caught up with talented character actor Scoot McNairy to talk about his latest film, Aftermath, which also stars Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the interview Scoot also talks about bringing a sense of humanity to the complicated characters he plays, the differences between depicting characters in movies and on TV, and starring in Fargo Season 3.
In Aftermath you play a character burdened by guilt of a different kind to that of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character, despite your character being at least indirectly responsible for events. You brought a great degree of sympathy to the role. Was it important to you, to bring a sense of humanity to this character?
Yeah, 100%. I mean I definitely try to bring a sense of humanity to all the characters that I play to sort of ground them. But for this one it was a tough one, you’ve kind of nailed it in your question,...
We caught up with talented character actor Scoot McNairy to talk about his latest film, Aftermath, which also stars Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the interview Scoot also talks about bringing a sense of humanity to the complicated characters he plays, the differences between depicting characters in movies and on TV, and starring in Fargo Season 3.
In Aftermath you play a character burdened by guilt of a different kind to that of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character, despite your character being at least indirectly responsible for events. You brought a great degree of sympathy to the role. Was it important to you, to bring a sense of humanity to this character?
Yeah, 100%. I mean I definitely try to bring a sense of humanity to all the characters that I play to sort of ground them. But for this one it was a tough one, you’ve kind of nailed it in your question,...
- 4/4/2017
- by Andy Furlong
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Are you overwhelmed by how much television is available right now? Is life getting in the way of keeping up with the shows you wanna try out? We feel your tube-related pain. Here’s a handy feature that’ll help you locate the hidden gems in this era of Peak TV.
Halt And Catch Fire
Network | AMC
Created By | Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers
RelatedPeak TV Treasure: Humans
Number Of Episodes | 30 over the first three seasons
Episode Length | 60 mins.
Premise | This 1980s-set drama focuses on four tech visionaries who try to make their mark at the dawn of the PC revolution.
Halt And Catch Fire
Network | AMC
Created By | Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers
RelatedPeak TV Treasure: Humans
Number Of Episodes | 30 over the first three seasons
Episode Length | 60 mins.
Premise | This 1980s-set drama focuses on four tech visionaries who try to make their mark at the dawn of the PC revolution.
- 3/29/2017
- TVLine.com
The show's never had good ratings but AMC keeps renewing Halt and Catch Fire anyway. This time around, the cable channel is moving the series to Tuesday nights. Will the numbers improve or get worse? Will the show be cancelled or renewed for a fourth season? Stay tuned.The story of Halt and Catch Fire picks up as Mutiny leaves Texas for the big leagues of Silicon Valley. Founders Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis) and Donna Clark (Kerry Bishé) search for the idea that will launch Mutiny as a player, but new collaborators test their partnership. Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy) struggles to find a place within his wife’s company as Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) builds upon his empire, reinventing himself with a bold play that shocks the Valley and sends him back into the lives of his former partners.Read More…...
- 10/13/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Timing is everything.
Joe's entire arc just crashed and into Gordon's after a simple suggestion from Cameron. The way that all came together was brilliant.
But the best Donna could do to fix things with Cameron on Halt and Catch Fire Season 3 Episode 6 was a fantasy conversation while on 'shrooms. God. I love this show.
Cameron appeared to be at ease after marrying Tom, but using him like a security blanket probably wasn't the best idea. It's not something she really thought about until Joe pointed it out to her, but she wasn't happy.
A happily married person would be shouting it to the world, not hiding away their ring in their jeans pocket. Like everything else in her life, she wanted it to be a secret, something she could keep private and pull out when she needed it.
But like Tom said, he'd be joining her soon. She'd have...
Joe's entire arc just crashed and into Gordon's after a simple suggestion from Cameron. The way that all came together was brilliant.
But the best Donna could do to fix things with Cameron on Halt and Catch Fire Season 3 Episode 6 was a fantasy conversation while on 'shrooms. God. I love this show.
Cameron appeared to be at ease after marrying Tom, but using him like a security blanket probably wasn't the best idea. It's not something she really thought about until Joe pointed it out to her, but she wasn't happy.
A happily married person would be shouting it to the world, not hiding away their ring in their jeans pocket. Like everything else in her life, she wanted it to be a secret, something she could keep private and pull out when she needed it.
But like Tom said, he'd be joining her soon. She'd have...
- 9/21/2016
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
The third season of “Halt and Catch Fire” premieres tonight, and it’s the drama you’ve been waiting for — even if you missed the first two seasons. Here’s why the drama about the early days of computing may be your next great Esc. It’s kind of a reboot: You don’t have to have seen the previous two seasons, because this one starts after the central characters have abandoned the Silicon Prairie of Texas for Silicon Valley. What you basically need to know is that Gordon Clark (Scoot McNair) and Donna Clark (Kerry Bishe) have an imperfect marriage,...
- 8/23/2016
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
"Many companies start doing one thing, and then change direction," Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) notes midway through the third season of AMC's '80s computer drama Halt and Catch Fire, which premieres tomorrow night at 9(*). He notes, for instance, that Coleco started off as the Connecticut Leather Company, then began manufacturing toys, and by the '80s was in the video game business, just as Joe himself stumbled into his current, hugely lucrative career selling anti-virus software after several prior computing ventures went sideways. (*) AMC snuck the season's first episode on last night in a timeslot that was listed as the second hour of Talking Dead, perhaps in hopes that Fear the Walking Dead fans would watch/record it by accident and give this very different show a try. But tomorrow will not only feature that episode again at 9, but the season's second episode in what will be the regular...
- 8/22/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Halt and Catch Fire, AMC’s smart, slick series about the fledgling computer industry of the 1980s, is California dreamin’. Joe, Cameron, Gordon, and Donna have all left Texas’ Silicon Prairie for Silicon Valley. “It gets out of the garage very quickly and we’re in the big leagues now,” series star Lee Pace tells HitFix of Halt’s new season debuting later this month. Halt and Catch Fire (which takes its name from an early computer command) started off with salesman/visionary Joe MacMillan’s race to compete with Ibm’s personal computer. Season 2 shifted its focus to online gaming. Now Halt and Catch Fire is going into its third season, which is longer than either of Pace’s previous television shows lasted. His team-ups with Bryan Fuller, Pushing Daisies and Wonderfalls, were canceled before their time, in the former case cutting short Pace’s endearing, Emmy-nominated role as the pie-maker Ned.
- 8/5/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
In my early days on the beat, NBC had an ad campaign encouraging people to watch summer reruns, promising, "If you haven't seen it, it's new to you!" In the age of Peak TV, that slogan seems less cynical than accurate. The rise of streaming services have put the bulk of TV history only a click or two away, which means that people are constantly discovering The Wire, or Arrested Development, or Terriers (sigh) for the very first time. In lieu of a summer rewind this year, I wanted to offer up primers of shows you can stream, whether an older series available in full or something current you can catch up on before its next season begins. Last week, I did one of the former by extolling the virtues of the CW's musical comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and while I intend to get to some vintage stuff soon, I wanted...
- 7/14/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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