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

Post by caycecan » Wed, Feb 18, 2026, 5:27 AM UTC

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Patriot is amazing, more people should watch it, everyone I know who has was enthralled by it. Counterpart was great but structure made it hard for to watch knowing it'd been cancelled. Scavengers Reign was great; I couldn't get into Common Side Effects. Evil is exactly the Catholic X-Files, which is an amazing concept, but by the end of the 2nd season it is all the way off the rails and hurtling into a canyon. Given…

Adding it as well

Post by walterbell » Wed, Feb 18, 2026, 5:28 AM UTC

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It's fairly well known to some of us. It's one of the few shows I own DVDs of.

Where can one even find the seasons? I only found season 1 on Blu-ray.

Post by randrus » Wed, Feb 18, 2026, 5:29 AM UTC

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And 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 under…

My father was an unnamed DG marketing executive in the book, who joked that his greatest career regret was asking Kidder to be unnamed in case the book wasn’t any good (it won Kidder the Pulitzer). I’ve been meaning to go through his old notebooks, as he took detailed notes on everything, to see if there is anything left from that era.

Post by protocolture » Wed, Feb 18, 2026, 5:31 AM UTC

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The guy gives me chills, he reminds me of every sales douche who has ever tried to pull the wool over my eyes, or sell a customer something so horrendous and undeliverable as to be actively business ending. An absolute legendary performance.

> The guy gives me chills, he reminds me of every sales douche who has ever tried to pull the wool over my eyes, or sell a customer something so horrendous and undeliverable as to be actively business ending. The thing is, Joe is supposed to actually have substance and vision. He's not faking it. The difference is that all those sales guys are pretending to be someone like Joe.

Post by nnevatie » Wed, Feb 18, 2026, 5:31 AM UTC

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how dare you mention Lee Pace and -not- mention his role in Foundation, he carried that entire show on his way too muscley back

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.