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Halt and Catch Fire is AMC's latest prestige drama. Set against the tech boom of the 1980's the show follows a cunning salesman, an engineer and a programming prodigy as they attempt to reverse engineer the IBM PC and change the face of the industry forever.

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From AMC, Halt and Catch Fire captures the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, during which 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.

While charting the changing culture of Texas' Silicon Prairie, tensions build within the group as they attempt to navigate the thin line between visionary and fraud, genius and delusion, and as their drive to do something that matters runs up against their ability to truly innovate.


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Interview with Kate Kneeland (Risa from Comet)

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2025/01/30
16:40 UTC

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Nice library of good-quality images

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/59659-halt-and-catch-fire/images/backdrops

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/59659-halt-and-catch-fire/images/posters

I've been searching for some cool merch/shirts, but haven't found anything to my liking, so I started looking for high-res images that I might be able to use to make my own custom print and I ended up finding these nice libraries. These are probably not technically high-resolution, but they are decent-good size/resolution and quality -- should be good enough for a decent quality small-medium sized print. Many of the images look like they were probably AI-upscaled. Quite a few options that I think that can be adapted nicely for shirt prints.

10 Comments
2025/01/30
00:14 UTC

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Interview with Dahvi Waller (Writer - Episodes 1.05, 1.08, 2.04)

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2025/01/27
17:38 UTC

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Why does literally everyone sleep on this show??

66 Comments
2025/01/24
13:42 UTC

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Interview with Gabriel Dib - Assistant to Composer Paul Haslinger

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2025/01/23
15:37 UTC

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Interview - Wes Holland as Macky from Comet (season 4)

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2025/01/20
18:57 UTC

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First time watcher (only 3 episodes in): I love how the show looks

Anyone else just love how the show looks?

When i watch Netflix, Apple TV+, or Disney+ MCU shows for example, most of the shows seem to be visually crafted like every other show on the said platform. (Although all 3 platforms have their own distinctive look and feel)

^ Maybe this is why I love how the show is shot and color graded...anyone with me?

14 Comments
2025/01/18
17:29 UTC

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Interview with Zack Whedon (Writer - Episodes 1.06, 1.08, 2.05, 2.08, 4.03, 4.08)

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2025/01/16
15:43 UTC

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Interview with Tricia Brock - Director of Episode 4.07 (Who Needs a Guy)

2 Comments
2025/01/13
15:41 UTC

0

Cam and donna are annoying as hell

Just started s3 and i can't, just can't bare to see them on my screen, cameron is annoying and a terrible person in general but donna just soured the series for me after she extorted gordon just to keep their marriage on (im not giving gordon a pass on cheating)

16 Comments
2025/01/13
05:19 UTC

113

I'm taking this as cannon

24 Comments
2025/01/11
17:44 UTC

45

G-Gordon?

Saw an ad on reddit and noticed this particular fellow looks a lot like Gordon.

3 Comments
2025/01/11
02:24 UTC

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Interview with Cait Pool and Cason Lauer Richter - Mutiny Party in 2.08 (Limbo)

4 Comments
2025/01/09
16:38 UTC

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Music in S4E2 “Signal To Noise”

At the start of S4E2 when Joe is talking to Cam over the phone and telling her the story of the song being played by an ice cream truck while a woman is being attacked by bees and eventually Joe asks if Cam is still there and stays on the line.....

The music that's playing during that scene, is that part of the released soundtrack??

1 Comment
2025/01/08
05:14 UTC

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Interview with Lisa Mae Fincannon and Kimberly Wistedt (Location Casting)

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2025/01/06
18:45 UTC

5

Lovelace

You know how Cam wants to name it Lovelace after Ada Lovelace? Turns out she's Lord Byron's daughter. Always has been.

9 Comments
2025/01/03
02:45 UTC

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Interview - CJ Sykes as Dogget from Mutiny (season 3)

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2025/01/02
17:19 UTC

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S3 E7-The threshold, should have ended the series

I’m revisiting this brilliant show and have never gotten this far in. I’ve watched the first season a few times but never got to see how ridiculously annoying Cameron becomes. Mackenzie Davis does a phenomenal job playing the role, but the redundancy of her childish selfish crybaby bullshit is on the writers. When she quits and Gordon gave 49% to Joe. That should have been it. I’m gotta finish watching. But…Cameron is like the worst character in any show. Lmao

37 Comments
2025/01/01
17:55 UTC

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Bonus Interview with Dan Bricklin on what COMDEX was really like in the 80s

4 Comments
2024/12/30
19:32 UTC

75

Baby mine.

Y'all, I'm not ok right now.

Just saw Gordon's death scene. How beautiful and breathtaking it was.

Goddamn.

11 Comments
2024/12/30
03:34 UTC

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Interview with Alison Tatlock (Writer / Episodes 3.04, 3.08, 4.04)

1 Comment
2024/12/26
19:22 UTC

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Bonus Interview - The Computers of HACF with Dan Berman of the Rhode Island Computer Museum

2 Comments
2024/12/23
18:21 UTC

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Earth-shaking Interview with Cristian Gonzalez (Cecil from Rover)

1 Comment
2024/12/19
17:07 UTC

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Who Needs A Guy

This is the episode that completely broke me. I have done countless rewatches of the series but every time this episode brings me to tears.

5 Comments
2024/12/19
03:58 UTC

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Why didn't they...(S1E9)

Instead of just saying "nobody wants this", why didn't Joe think of selling Cameron's OS and the memory upgrade as an optional addon kit for power users? It would've been a compromise that could've kept Cameron on board and blown even more balls off the numbers.

Bundles and upgrades were extremely common back then, you'd have systems having optional bundles with an extra disk drive or hard drive and a dozen other things with their machines, why did they close that door on the Giant?

17 Comments
2024/12/18
07:11 UTC

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Only 2 things about this show that grind my gears

How nearly everyone treated/exiled Joe, and how that damn champagne bottle at the end of episode 9 season 3 sounded when they sat it on the ledge.

Drives me up a wall. Why does it sound like its being sat on a wood table, its a concrete ledge. Reeeeeee

10 Comments
2024/12/18
05:23 UTC

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Interview about Pop Culture and Halt and Catch Fire with Panelists Mo Ryan (Vanity Fair) and Danielle Turchiano (Made Possible by Pop Culture)

2 Comments
2024/12/16
16:24 UTC

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December 15, 1994. The Netscape Navigator 1.0 browser is released.

19 Comments
2024/12/16
00:56 UTC

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