#Halt and catch professional
Eventually, it’s impossible for people this committed to their work to separate their personal values and their professional ones, and while that conflict might sound cliche, in the hands of Halt and Catch Fire’s cast, it’s enthralling. These seemingly pedestrian moments dominate the show’s central relationship between Donna Clark (Kerry Bishé) and Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis), two women who attempt to found a tech company and spend the next few years discovering what they’re willing to sacrifice in the effort. Instead, they faced an endless, thankless series of intractable workplace decisions about integrity, product quality and business logistics. The characters never achieved lasting success or transformation, perpetually stymied by the major players in a nascent and clunking industry. It’s a miracle, then, that Halt and Catch Fire, a show originally meant to fill the hole left by Mad Men, has managed to make it to the end of its fourth and final season, which concluded this weekend in the US.Ī tech drama that takes place entirely between the first iteration of Microsoft Word in 1983 and Windows 95, Halt and Catch Fire kept its focus squarely on the haze of an emerging field, without any of the fist-pumping moments that might have come from a show focusing on the rise of Google or Facebook. In 2017, there’s simply too much out there to guarantee that the best series will attract the biggest audiences. I f it was ever possible to maintain the illusion that good work will attract an audience simply by virtue of its quality, it isn’t now.
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