Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
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Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
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Re: Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
#2And as I understand it loosely based on the fantastic and seminal book Soul of a New Machine.
I had a great EM once who said I need to read it because nothing has changed in 40 years, and I keep a copy on my desk.
Touching as well, as it's on Joe MacMillan's desk in the final scene of third season.
What's so great about it is:
- mushroom theory of management works - trust new graduates and juniors to win by not understanding the possible - throw all the corporate bs away, just build - competing teams (skunk-works, vs roadmap team) works - real innovation is built by tinkerers, from the ground up, not top down
as a startup weirdo in the age of AI, who pines for the golden era (as they call it the golden prarie) i highly recommend this show!
Re: Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
#3Lee 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 screen.
edit - a great example and one of my favorite scenes from the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOR8mk0tLpc
Re: Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
#4Lee 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…
he reminds me of truly the best bosses
also something about him with a good engineer
reminds me of me and my boss, i hope lol
Re: Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
#5Great show and fantastic music. This show and Driver were two soundtracks that captured that early/mid 2010s vibe for me personally.
Re: Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
#6A great watch if you are nostalgic for the early BBS days or early WWW days. The post 2000 generation may not get it.
Re: Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
#7The first seasons were excellent, the latter seasons not so much.
Re: Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
#8So good
Re: Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
#9This series is great at multiple levels:
- the archetype characters and their motivations to do what they do (100% valid today)
- struggles and exhilaration of startups
- as a pseudo-documentary of the early years of personal computing
Highly recommend it!
Re: Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
#10It’s great but it ain’t no Mr. Robot.