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Anyone catch the first episode this past Sunday? I thought it started off pretty good and plan to keep watching it, see how it turns out Synaposis: Halt and Catch Fire is a fictional drama based I would say in the very early 80's, at the beginning of the PC boom. Joe Macmillan, played by Lee Pace, is a former IBM salesman who sees a future where PC's will take over the world and wants to be a part of that. To do so, he gets hired at Cardiff Electric. While there, he teams up with a reluctant Gordon Clark, played by Scoot McNairy, a hardware engineer who caught his eye by a article he wrote in a computer magazine Byte. Did Joe go to this company just to meet Gordon? We don't know yet. Joe also tracks down a college attending computer genius by the name of Cameron Howe, played by Mackenzie Davis, who makes the final person in his team. Joe gets Gordon to reverse engineer IBM's latest PC which then forces their company into the PC race. This Article goes into more detail on the history of the show. Thanks Sober! Top 3 Characters  Joe Macmillan played by Lee Pace (the recent Hobbit movies, Lincoln) I would call him a Steve Jobs type personality. He is the dreamer of the show that sees personal PC's taking over the world and will do anything to be a part of it. He brings together the team to make that happen.  Gordon Clark played by Scoot McNairy (12 Years a Slave, Argo, Non-Stop) Another dreamer but one who had an earlier dream fail. His passion has been reigned in by his past failure and by the responsibilities of having a family. His wife has also kept him down which is evidenced when they are introduced to us. But the passion is there, just waiting on a spark to ignite it again.  Cameron Howe played by Mackenzie Davis (That Awkward Moment) Cameron is the young genius/hacker type who is of course, also rebellious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcVwF8XyD-8 Thoughts: I always make a point to catch AMC's new offerings if they look interesting and this one was no exception. For a first episode, I felt the writing and the pace, while a bit fast, was not too bad. My favorite character so far was Gordon. I felt Scoot McNairy did a fantastic job showing how low his life has become, especially the scenes around his family in his house. As he received more air time to show "his life", I hope the other actors are afforded the same luxury. bryn987 fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Jun 6, 2014 |
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OP updated, hope it's much better
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Jun 5, 2014 00:48
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Thanks for the link, added to OPSober posted:I dunno if you want to stick this in the OP, but this article kinda describes what HCF is based on. Basically it's a fictional retelling of Compaq 'copying' the IBM PC.
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Jun 6, 2014 23:41
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2nd episode was not as good as the first I felt. Like another poster states, Pace's character bothers me. I think it would be better if they slowed the story down some. In this episode, we went from the lawyers to Cameron's "genius" moment
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Jun 10, 2014 02:37
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Disappointed in this episode. I mean, did anything really happen?
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Jun 18, 2014 01:20
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Agreed, Donna was the best part of last episode
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Jun 26, 2014 12:39
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Doctor Butts posted:Rubicon was way more interesting, though. And I won't miss HCF as much as I miss Rubicon. Loved Rubicon
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Jun 27, 2014 02:24
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Really enjoyed this last episode.
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Jul 1, 2014 02:28
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Meatwave posted:Anyone have some recommendations for music like Trentmoller's intro? I know of Kavinsky but that's about it. The intro is Trentmoller? Haven't heard that name since his famous essential mix way back when
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really liked this episode but gutted about Bosworth. Really great acting but the writers didn't do his character justice.
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