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Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)

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Post by walterbell »

Carl Ledbetter interview (2024), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-k8p0dbB4

  Carl was a Technical Consultant across all four seasons of Halt and Catch Fire, providing industry insight and script review.  Hear what he had to say about his experience on the show, a breakdown of specific scenes, and some of his favorite memories.

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Post by swyx »

nnevatie wrote: post #139
deaddodo wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not cancelled, there’s a fourth season on the way. But yes, him and Jared Harris are pretty much the primary reasons to watch. And given the limited Harris screentime, definitely Pace carries it.

People are using past tense, as David S. Goyer is leaving the show behind.

oh no, this is how i found out my favorite show is dead wtf

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Post by walterbell »

rerdavies wrote: post #155

As someone who lived through that era, I couldn't watch it. A deep sense of uncanny valley. The 97% that they got completely right was ruined by the 3% that that they got wildly wrong. Often senslessly so. Stuff that a technical consultant would have caught in an instant. I did rather enjoy the way that they captured the manic energy of the generation of dirtbag sales and marketing people that drove the PC industry i…

Carl Ledbetter (one of three technical advisors) interview, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056314#47057719

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Post by loevborg »

danielvaughn wrote: post #3

Lee Pace's performance in that show is one of my all time favorites. It's incredibly hard to play a charismatic marketing guru because in some sense, you're not acting. In a given scene, the character might be trying to convince people around him of some crazy idea, but if he hasn't convinced you, the viewer, then the entire illusion falls apart. So he really has to do in real life what he's pretending to do on scree…

If you like Lee Pace, check out The Fall (2006). It's my favorite film, incredibly ambitious and funny and yet virtually unknown to the public. Lee's performance is incredible, as is his young co-star's.

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Post by aqme28 »

tptacek wrote: post #19

It's quite good, but it gets very Six Feet Under by the end, and you have to suspend a lot of disbelief about technology; it's a little like Hackers in the sense that it's trying to communicate a feeling about operating in specific eras of computing, but not so much trying to realistically depict what it was like. Christopher Cantwell, the showrunner, is also doing the new series of The Terror (aka North Pole Bear Sh…

A new The Terror? The one that came out some years ago was incredible, and very under-discussed I think.

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Post by SquareWheel »

_boffin_ wrote: post #154
tptacek wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

S2 is the weakest season, and S1 isn't the strongest.

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Many people will likely be watching this show for the first time based on this thread. Please don't spoil major plot events for them.

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Post by shinycode »

rerdavies wrote: post #155

As someone who lived through that era, I couldn't watch it. A deep sense of uncanny valley. The 97% that they got completely right was ruined by the 3% that that they got wildly wrong. Often senslessly so. Stuff that a technical consultant would have caught in an instant. I did rather enjoy the way that they captured the manic energy of the generation of dirtbag sales and marketing people that drove the PC industry i…

It’s very hard to capture everything in such an era. Maybe they made other choices that aligned with the fiction they were writing. It’s not a documentary. And TV shows can’t capture as much as books. The show successfully gives enough to people to haven’t lived in that era. It’s an amazing show.

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Post by unsnap_biceps »

nnevatie wrote: post #139
deaddodo wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not cancelled, there’s a fourth season on the way. But yes, him and Jared Harris are pretty much the primary reasons to watch. And given the limited Harris screentime, definitely Pace carries it.

People are using past tense, as David S. Goyer is leaving the show behind.

The articles I can find say he's staying on as a EP, just stepping down as the main show runner. That seems very different than leaving the show behind.
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