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Critic Reviews
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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.
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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