Halt and Catch Fire (2014)
Halt and Catch Fire (2014)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Lee Pace
Joe MacMillan
Scoot McNairy
Gordon Clark
Mackenzie Davis
Cameron Howe
Kerry Bishé
Donna Clark
Aleksa Palladino
Sara Wheeler
Toby Huss
John Bosworth
Ola Maslik
Production Design
Julia Cho
Producer / Writer
August Emerson
Malcolm Levitan
Mark Lafferty
Supervising Producer / Supervising Producer / Producer / Writer
Alana Cavanaugh
Haley Clark
Alison Tatlock
Supervising Producer / Supervising Producer / Producer / Writer
Morgan Hinkleman
Joanie Clark
Angelina Burnett
Co-Executive Producer / Supervising Producer / Co-Executive Producer / Writer
Zack Whedon
Co-Executive Producer / Co-Producer / Co-Executive Producer / Producer / Writer
Annabeth Gish
Diane Gould
Nick Pupo
Carl
Steph Accetta
Co-Producer / Unit Production Manager / Co-Producer / Unit Production Manager
Andrea Stilgenbauer
Co-Producer
Christopher Cantwell
Writer
Christopher C. Rogers
Writer
Lawrence Epstein
Post Production Supervisor
Katie Edgerton
Writers' Assistant / Writers' Assistant / Writer
Lisa Albert
Consulting Producer / Writer
Evans Brown
Director of Photography
Gohar Gazazyan
Casting
Joani Yarbrough
Hair Department Head
Paul Haslinger
Original Music Composer
Mark Johnson
Executive Producer
Melissa Bernstein
Executive Producer
Sharon Bialy
Casting
Sherry Thomas
Casting
Jeff Freilich
Producer / Director
Donna M. Premick
Makeup Department Head
Christopher Brown
Production Design
Craig Stearns
Production Design
Nelson Cragg
Director of Photography
Jeffrey Jur
Director of Photography
Monty Schuth
Hair Department Head
Adria Murray Schneider
Post Production Supervisor
Christina Perez
Post Production Supervisor
Randy Loveridge
Post Production Supervisor
Sarah Elizabeth Jones
In Memory Of
Roberto Villarreal
In Memory Of
Juan José Campanella
Director
Karyn Kusama
Director
Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Director
Michael Morris
Director
Phil Abraham
Director
Kimberly Peirce
Director
Larysa Kondracki
Director
Stacie Passon
Director
Reed Morano
Director
Jon Amiel
Director
Tricia Brock
Director
Andrew McCarthy
Director
Jake Paltrow
Director
Meera Menon
Director
Iran Kuykendall
Second Assistant Director
Diane Calhoun
First Assistant Director
Terry McDonough
Director
Ed Bianchi
Director
Johan Renck
Director
So Yong Kim
Director
Craig Zisk
Director
Robert Komatsu
Editor
Rachel Goodlett Katz
Editor
Jonathan Lisco
Executive Producer / Writer
Nathaniel Smith
Associate Producer / Co-Producer
Michael Saltzman
Co-Executive Producer / Writer
Jamie Pachino
Co-Producer / Writer
Dahvi Waller
Co-Executive Producer / Writer
Jason Cahill
Co-Executive Producer / Writer
Scott Michael Foster
Hunt Whitmarsh
Will Greenberg
Brian Braswell
Randy Havens
Stan
Graham Beckel
Nathan Cardiff
Mike Pniewski
Barry Shields
James Cromwell
Jacob Wheeler
Manish Dayal
Ryan Ray
Mark O'Brien
Tom Rendon
Kathryn Newton
Joanie Clark
Matthew Lillard
Ken Diebold
Chelsea Talmadge
Vera
Brian R. Norris
Elliot
Sasha Morfaw
Tanya Reese
Cristian Gonzalez
Cecil
Anna Chlumsky
Katie Herman
David Wilson Barnes
Dale Butler
Molly Ephraim
Alexa Vonn
Kenny Alfonso
Mike Houseman
Rich Ceraulo Ko
Millennium Lead
Joshua Sawtell
Millennium Team Member
Connor Hammond
Dennis
T.C. Carter
Vince
Jamie Miles
Bonsai Enthusiast
Kristin Brock
Dinner Party Guest
Alano Miller
Gavin Green
Charlie Bodin
Trip Kisker III
Matthew Cornwell
Shep
Frank Hoyt Taylor
Gilson
David Mackey
Elias Amador
Brenton Schraff
Calnect Engineer
Lily Donoghue
Vanessa
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 1, 2014
StatusEnded
Seasons4
Episodes40
Running Time43m
Content RatingTV-14
Filming LocationsAtlanta, United States of America
Genres
Wiki.
Halt and Catch Fire is an American period drama television series created by Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers. It aired on the cable network AMC in the United States from June 1, 2014, to October 14, 2017, spanning four seasons and 40 episodes. It depicts a fictionalized insider's view of the personal computer revolution of the 1980s and the early days of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s. The show's title refers to computer machine code instruction Halt and Catch Fire (HCF), the execution of which would cause the computer's central processing unit to cease meaningful operation (and in an exaggeration, catch fire).In season one, the fictional company Cardiff Electric makes its first foray into personal computing with a project to build an IBM PC clone, led by entrepreneur Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) with the help of computer engineer Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy) and prodigy programmer Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis). Seasons two and three shift focus to a startup company, the online community Mutiny, headed by Cameron and Gordon's wife Donna (Kerry Bishé), while Joe ventures out on his own. The fourth and final season focuses on competing web search engines involving all the principal characters.
Halt and Catch Fire marked the first jobs that Cantwell and Rogers had in the television industry. They wrote the pilot hoping to use it to secure jobs as writers, but they instead landed their own series with AMC. The initial inspiration for the series was drawn from Cantwell's childhood in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, located within northern Texas's Silicon Prairie, where his father worked as a software salesman. The creators subsequently researched the contributions of Texan firms to the emerging personal computing industry during the 1980s. Self-produced by the network and mostly filmed in the Atlanta, Georgia, area, the series is set in the Silicon Prairie for its first two seasons and Silicon Valley for its latter two.Halt and Catch Fire experienced low viewership ratings throughout its run, with only the first episode surpassing one million viewers for its initial broadcast. The series debuted to generally favorable reviews, though many critics initially found it derivative of other series such as Mad Men. In each subsequent season, the series grew in acclaim, and by the time it concluded, critics considered it among the greatest shows of the 2010s. In 2022, Rolling Stone ranked it the 55th-greatest television series of all time, based on a poll of 46 actors, writers, producers, and critics.