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Those who stayed patient with Halt season 1, or those who come to the show now that the quality has gone up significantly, will be rewarded.
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AMC's computer-industry period drama, Halt and Catch Fire, returns for its second season a fresher, better, stronger series.
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It now has a compelling subject, the emergence, through modem clicks and whistles, of the wired Internet era we live in. Like many a good period piece, it’s really our own origin story.
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AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire, a series about tech entrepreneurs, albeit ones in 1980s Dallas, begins its much-improved second season having undergone a pivot of its own.... The adjustment may sound slight, but as successful pivoters--billionaires on paper, anyway--would surely be happy to explain, the right pivot can make all the difference.
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The performances from Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy, Mackenzie Davis, and Ketty Bishe are solid, [but] the characters don't do much, favoring tech jargon over real drama. [29 May/5 Jun 2015, p.100]
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You can see Halt reach for that something. You can't quite shake the sense that Halt doesn't know what that "something" is.
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As with the first season, the actors all do their best, and the loving but challenging relationship between Donna and Gordon remains the show's most appealing, layered element. But Halt and Catch Fire still lacks a point of view that would make this trip back to the '80s feel relevant.
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Four episodes in, the writers have taken steps to reconnect the key characters, but it’s a too-slow update of the software on a concept that came back with a relatively shallow pool of goodwill and critical buzz.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 82 out of 86
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Mixed: 1 out of 86
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Negative: 3 out of 86
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Jun 1, 2015
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Jun 1, 2015
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