Halt and Catch Fire

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Season 3
  • Network: AMC
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 1, 2014
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 77 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 66 out of 77
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 77
  3. Negative: 5 out of 77
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  1. AngryIgor
    Apr 2, 2018
    0
    is just as boring as you would expect.... when you got boring topic you cant have interesting story... its just big meh.
  2. KillaCook
    Dec 14, 2017
    3
    Made it through most of season 3. I really hate to go against the grain here, but this fictional account of the early days of the personal computer revolution is seriously flawed. I get that it's fiction, but like good science fiction, it's supposed to be based on facts. The technology timelines are faltering at best and smell like they were written by someone who didn't live through them.Made it through most of season 3. I really hate to go against the grain here, but this fictional account of the early days of the personal computer revolution is seriously flawed. I get that it's fiction, but like good science fiction, it's supposed to be based on facts. The technology timelines are faltering at best and smell like they were written by someone who didn't live through them. The environment is better, but still flawed. Cameron Howe's character is simply a phony construct of someone's idea of what a revolutionary young woman would look and act like. They should have modeled her on a more believable real person(s). The other characters are more believable, but not endearing. I find myself wishing for their plans to fail (which they all do) rather than rooting for them. I do appreciate the contentional relationship shown between sales and engineers. That is depicted rather well.
    The commercial use of Commodore 64s is ludicrous. I loved my C64, but it didn't have ANY commercial following and the IBM XT was actually very short lived. Where is Intel depicted (a major player)? They got the concept of time sharing totally wrong, as if technology leaped from Main Frames to PCs in a single bound. What about the entire era of minicomputers (Control Data, DEC PDP and VAX, Data General Nova. Hewlett Packard 3000 2100 and 1000 series)?
    I know I sound like a technology snob, but I lived through this revolution (like millions of others) and I found that I could not overcome the blatant misrepresentations of this series. As a tv show it has managed to hold my attention. Unfortunately it has done so in much the same way as a train wreck attracts observers. No matter how this series ends, I will not feel good. Too much misinformation and a lack of decent human behavior make this a sad attempt at presenting a great time in history.    … Expand

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#29 Best TV Season of 2016

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Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Aug 26, 2016
    100
    Halt finally looks like a series going someplace important, and worth viewers going there with it.
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  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    Aug 25, 2016
    80
    One of the better dramas on TV--particularly right now in the waning days of the summer.
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  3. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Emily VanDerWerff
    Aug 25, 2016
    100
    The first five episodes of that third season are as good as anything I’ve seen on TV this year.
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