![]() ![]() “Halt and Catch Fire” is dedicated to recreating an era through the eyes of its dreamers - how they saw it unfolding around them and how that perception is affected by our collective knowledge of the future. The series, for what it’s trying to accomplish, remained the same. However, she decided to join Cameron's hip, fledging company instead.Yet even as Pace changed his look, the pace remained the same (feel the fire of that hot wordplay, folks). Gordon offered her a job as the Head Engineer at Cardiff Electric. At the end of the season, Donna quits her job at TI. That flirtation backfires when Hunt steals the plans for Cardiff's PC, Bring it On style, and presents it first at a conference. While Gordon falls into work and becomes neglectful, Donna comes close to having an affair with her coworker and former High School classmate Hunt, played by Greek's Scott Michael Foster. Cameron may be a genius, but Donna is the show's secret weapon. She saved the day by recovering lost data at Cardiff, and subsequently discovered that Joe purposefully trashed it in the first place. At the end of the day, the two are intellectual equals and great partners. She makes it very clear that she has sacrificed for her family and her husband, and fights for what is hers. Her relationship with Gordon can be frustrating at times, but also disgustingly romantic in the dorkiest of ways. She also plays piano and has an amazing fashion sense indicative of a mature Molly Ringwald. At the start of the season, she worked at Texas Instruments. ![]() He then went hiking to visit an observatory and do some more stargazing. He really takes the title of the show literally. He's in love with Cameron, the young girl he recruits to write code, but his last significant relationship was with a man named Simon.Īt the end of the season, Joe torched the van with the first shipment of Giant computers. Joe MacMillan is also apparently bisexual, which is not common of leading men on cable or network television. He was severely injured and in the hospital for years. His mother was a drug addict, whose carelessness ended in him falling off a roof while stargazing. He is not on great terms with his father. Joe's dark past is hinted at throughout the season. He may not be good at computers, but he's good. The whole PC project started at Cardiff because Joe engineered it so that they legally had no choice. He temporarily sabotaged his own operation on multiple occasions to garner publicity or steer the ship in the directed he wants. He's not afraid to con or hurt people to get ahead. He disappeared from IBM for a year, came to Cardiff and created a team to build a personal computer that would compete with, if not beat, his former employers. While he is a charming liar who excels in sales, Joe is not a technical visionary. Some people might say that Joe MacMillan is nothing but an 80s Don Draper or Walter White. Here's Season 1 of Halt and Catch Fire broken down by each of the major players and their journey. I don't watch this show for programming language or engineering, I watch it for the characters. I never jammed with the console cowboys in cyberspace. However, while I may have grown up in an age of early personal computers, I don't know all that much about these machines that I rely on today for my livelihood and then some. So in many ways, as a period piece it looks to me like what Mad Men looks like to my parents. The first season took place in Dallas in 1983. At the very least, "Giant" is an homage to the 1956 film about Texas oil that starred James Dean. Halt and Catch Fire aims to make personal computing seem like the Wild West - which is probably why it's set in Silicon Prairie in Texas rather than Silicon Valley in California. The most depressing thing about Halt and Catch Fire? The desktop computer they built isn't nearly as intelligent or powerful as a cell phone today. The show focuses around a small tech company, called Cardiff Electric, fighting to design and put their personal computer, called the Giant, on shelves. This may not be a life hack, but let me recap Season 1 of Halt and Catch Fire for you, so that you're caught up when the series returns. Whether you're into 80s music, girls who code, or Lee Pace, this is definitely a show worth checking out. Mad Menmay be over, but AMC is still running strong with a new season of Halt and Catch Fire about to begin. ![]()
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