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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 Gormo »

walterbell wrote: post #148
metamet wrote: post #81

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You're making me really want to start a rewatch. It's shocking how few people have seen this show, let along watched it. Part of that probably has to do with how inaccessible it is on streaming. It's only readily available on AMC+. And no one has AMC+. This is one of those shows that would likely shoot to the top if Netflix got the rights to it and even did a mild push. It's genuinely peak prestige TV.

40-episode box set is $30 ($16 today) on Apple TV.

Apple TV is distributing physical media?

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Post by raffael_de »

rbanffy wrote: post #279
telesilla wrote: post #255

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He's also extraordinary in Apple's Foundation, some say he carries the show. I treasure The Fall and every frame of it, in this he's uniquely blended with other great actors and images.

Last season's Brother Dude was awesome. I really felt sad for him. I have to say, however, my tolerance for manipulative sociopaths is very low - I'd totally punch McMillen in the face. I was only aware of The Fall for its brilliant photography.

The Fall is a great movie but still more style than substance imo.

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Post by rbanffy »

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…

I got really disappointed at the mainframe booting into PC-DOS with a CGA font on a 3278 terminal. The show made such an impeccable job at rebuilding the 3033 CPU and the 3278 terminal just to make such a horrible job depicting its boot process. A VM/SE banner or an MVS login screen would have been sufficient (if inaccurate, if we are looking at the operator console). Did the research point out mainframes don't run PC operating systems?

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Post by kgwxd »

nephihaha wrote: post #231
fud101 wrote: post #156

Hm it's on amazon but you gotta pay for the secondary sub. Did look interesting but oh well.

Everything is like that on Prime. Makes me wonder what the point of a subscription is if you've got to pay for practically everything?

It's gotten so ridiculous, my wife was in tears trying to get at a show a few days ago and we have like all the subscriptions. Now that it's cross-services subs to services within subs, some hosted by the top level, some a separate app/site/login even though you signed up somewhere else, it's a friggin' nightmare!

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Post by walterbell »

Gormo wrote: post #281
walterbell wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

40-episode box set is $30 ($16 today) on Apple TV.

Apple TV is distributing physical media?

Scroll past the subscription options to find the full series listing. "Box Set" licensing terminology is as anachronistic as "Seasons", but both are used in Apple TV product listings for non-subscription streaming media purchases.

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Post by rbanffy »

raffael_de wrote: post #283
rbanffy wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last season's Brother Dude was awesome. I really felt sad for him. I have to say, however, my tolerance for manipulative sociopaths is very low - I'd totally punch McMillen in the face. I was only aware of The Fall for its brilliant photography.

The Fall is a great movie but still more style than substance imo.

It's forgivable, as long as it has A LOT of style.

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Post by bwv848 »

caycecan wrote: post #84

HACF is a goodie but there's a lot of great shows no one's heard of. In an effort to sing the song of underappreciated works of greatness... Patriot - a CIA hitman who writes folk songs about his exploits imdb.com/title/tt4687882/ Counterpart - not a multiverse, just a biverse imdb.com/title/tt4643084/ Scavengers Reign - Robinson Crusoe by way of a nature documentary of a very bizarre alien planet. imdb.com/title/tt2…

HACF only has four seasons, but it features great character arcs and a beautiful ending. I don’t think it’s on the level of The Wire, but it’s way more than enough to stand apart.

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Post by jackp96 »

kgwxd wrote: post #200
caycecan wrote: post #84

HACF is a goodie but there's a lot of great shows no one's heard of. In an effort to sing the song of underappreciated works of greatness... Patriot - a CIA hitman who writes folk songs about his exploits imdb.com/title/tt4687882/ Counterpart - not a multiverse, just a biverse imdb.com/title/tt4643084/ Scavengers Reign - Robinson Crusoe by way of a nature documentary of a very bizarre alien planet. imdb.com/title/tt2…

Station Eleven. Wouldn't have made it past a few episodes if I didn't know how good Mackenzie Davis was from watching HCF 1000 times. I stuck through a few things I didn't care for at first, now it will probably remain my favorite show of all time.

Station Eleven is so beautiful and human. Great pick. Highly recommend The Leftovers if you liked that one. Its exploration of life and grief and humanity following a secular rapture is stunning, and the performances are outstanding.
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