But even the conflict seems to please Joe, who walks off with a self-satisfied grin. “So we’re just building another boring beige box?” Cameron asks. Computers, she pronounces, should have photorealistic screens and be able to beat her at chess – and the audience knows she’s on to something there, but everyone else thinks she’s nuts. And here’s the conflict: Gordon says it’s impossible while Cameron thinks it isn’t nearly audacious enough. Joe writes on a whiteboard “2 X FAST, 1/2 PRICE” and noisily recaps his pen to punctuate what he feels is clearly very important point. Once the lawyers are gone, it’s time to get talking about what they’re going to build – which feels a bit late considering they’ve already told IBM they’re building it. Joe, however, is confident, and in his usual smarmy fashion tells them they have nothing on Cardiff and may as well go home. The story opens where last week’s left off: an army of IBM lawyers has defended on the Cardiff Electric offices, posturing and threatening. If you want to catch up before reading this review, Halt and Catch Fire airs on AMC Sundays at 10/9c and you can stream the most recent episode on AMC’s website.
However, it’s probably not the best hour of TV you’ll watch this week. Though some of the shine is starting to wear off of the premise – and some of the drama feels exaggerated – it’s worth watching for the solid performances of the main cast… and I still have hopes that the show might be heading somewhere good in future episodes. This latter seems to be a theme with Joe, who last episode smashed up his apartment when he was frustrated. This week’s episode features more prescient technobabble, plenty of office politics, and Joe wrecking havoc on an electronics store for no apparent reason. Unfortunately, IBM’s none too happy about this and they’ve sent in a fleet of lawyers to try to shut the project down… but Joe has a plan to outsmart them. He’s formed his dream team of the rebellious Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis) and Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy). Last week on Halt and Catch Fire we saw Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) maneuvering everyone else into place so the he could push Cardiff Electric, his new employer, into building a clone of the IBM PC.
The 40-episode series went on to be critically acclaimed over its four-season runtime, with the series as a whole having a 90 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and its fourth and final season having earned a rare 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score.Episode 2 brings more of the same… but are good performances from the lead actors enough to make up for the repetitive technobabble? The series stars Lee Pace as Joe MacMillan, Scoot McNairy as Gordon Clark, Kerry Bishé as Donna Clark, and Mackenzie Davis as Cameron Howe, as well as Toby Huss as John Bosworth. The series takes place in the early 1980s during the early days of the personal computer and focuses on four primary characters attempting to innovate against the changing backdrop of technology and Texas’ Silicon Prairie. Halt and Catch Fire originally aired between 20. The first season is set to premiere on the service on Thursday, December 16, with a new season set to roll out each Thursday over the following three weeks, until all four seasons are available to viewers commercial-free. AMC Network has announced that the critically acclaimed drama series Halt and Catch Firewill be making its way to their streaming service, AMC+.