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- They Set It in Texas Because The Area Wasn't "Exploited."
- The Show's Title Is A PC Command.
- The Cast and Crew Did A Lot of Reading to Prepare.
- The Female Characters Have Real-Life Inspirations, too.
- Scoot McNairy and Kerry Bishé Had Played Husband and Wife before.
- It Made Internet history.
- Cameron Played Centipede in The Pilot Episode For A reason.
- The Vintage Computers Are Real.
- Lee Pace Thinks His Character Is A Walking Greek Tragedy.
“We wanted to find the place you didn’t know," Cantwell explained. "Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, IBM, Microsoft, all those stories and companies have been exploited dramatically to great effect.” But Texas, Cantwell pointed out, was also a pretty big tech player. "You had companies like EDS, you had Michael Dell making computers in his dorm ro...
"Halt and Catch Fire," or "HCF," was originally a fictitious machine code that would make a machine's CPU self-destruct. Computer programmers later made real HCFs.
The writing staff read Tracy Kidder's 1981 nonfiction book The Soul of a New Machine, which documented a computer engineering team's attempt to build a new computer, and watched documentaries like Triumph of the Nerds. Both Scoot McNairy and Lee Pace read Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography for research. Pace also read up on Ivan Boesky. Pace to...
Rogers said that, in creating Cameron and Donna, he and Cantwell were inspired by the likes of Roberta Williams, Donna Bailey, Grace Hopper, and Ada Lovelace. "Looking ahead, should we be so lucky as to do a third season," Rogers added in 2015, "the respective rises of [Facebook COO] Sheryl Sandberg and [Yahoo! CEO] Marissa Mayer are of great inter...
Bishé and McNairy played Kathy and Joe Stafford, respectively, in Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning Argo. Neither actor believes that Argo had anything to do with them being cast as a married couple in Halt and Catch Fire. "It was just a happy coincidence," Bishé said.
Halt and Catch Fire became the first television show to ever premiere on Tumblr. It debuted on the social media platform two weeks before it premiered on AMC.
"I feel like we wanted to make her representative of the wave that was coming next, both generationally and technologically," Rogers recalled. "To us, games were that, and Centipede felt just the right blend of addictive and frenetic to mirror Cameron's mental state in those pilot scenes. Also, after season one, we learned the story of Donna Bailey...
They get the 1980s relics from the Rhode Island Computer Museum in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Some of the parts don't always work, but they're the real thing—including the Atari Cameron played in season two.
"He’s not a bad guy, that’s the secret to him," Pace saidof his character, Joe MacMillan, before season two began airing. "There’s an idea I’ve been playing with this season—the gods hate Joe. There is a sense that no matter how hard he works, he might fail, no matter how hard he tries to be agreeable to the people he’s with, they still don’t see h...
- Roger Cormier
During the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, an unlikely trio - a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy - take personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world as they know it.
I discovered "Halt and Catch Fire", a little by chance (heard of it in r/mrrobot, a masterpiece if you ask me) few weeks ago. I'm wondering how historically accurate is this show? Is it really representative of the 80-90s dynamic in the computer/Internet field?
Oct 4, 2016 · AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire ended its penultimate season 3 episode with a bombshell shocker for the ‘80s-set tech-boom drama: a suicide, marking the first major character death in the show’s...
- Marc Snetiker
October 14, 2017. (2017-10-14) Halt and Catch Fire is an American period drama television series created by Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers. It aired on the cable network AMC in the United States from June 1, 2014, to October 14, 2017, spanning four seasons and 40 episodes. [1][2] It depicts a fictionalized insider's view of the ...
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Halt and Catch Fire is an American period drama television series created by Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers. It aired on the cable network AMC in the United States from June 1, 2014, to October 14, 2017, spanning four seasons and 40 episodes.
