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If you’re seeking substantive analysis that calls upon an intimacy with the series as a whole, look elsewhere. And be aware than aside from the three new episodes AMC made available for review, I have not watched an entire season’s worth of episodes of this show since its turgid first. So please note that “Halt and Catch Fire” returns for its fourth and final season Saturday at 10 p.m. My job is to point out the scripted pearls hiding in the Peak TV slurry.
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Much of what professional viewers of television write about is viewed out of obligation as opposed to heartfelt desire. My personal feelings about a series don’t factor into whether it merits coverage, of course.
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Erring on the side of honesty and full disclosure feels like the way to go here.
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And Cameron is more right than she knew about the would-be PC pioneer still being that little boy upon the roof with his psychotic mother – inside, that’s exactly what Joe believes he is, so he’s gonna jump before anyone else can drop him.Many respected critics declare “Halt and Catch Fire” to be one of the best dramas on television right now. Cameron may be skeptical, but Gordon and Donna both had come around to the idea that Joe MacMillan was indeed capable of leading a company, not just killing one and building a new one in its carcass. If the show does work – and let’s just say, for argument’s sake, that it does – then the best way to understand Joe’s actions at the end of the episode is as a one man’s tragic misunderstanding of himself. If it were, would he have gone to Cameron, encouraging her to do basically whatever she wants with her life as long as he could be a part of it? Would Gordon’s praise and thanks at the party, and afterwards when there’s no audience to impress, have been so sincere? Would his admission of defeat regarding his big “killer app” scheme after the coders quit and the test-computer problem was found to be a fluke have felt so genuine? Would his craziness have been capable of rallying everyone to his cause, transforming their lives in the process, as Gordon so eloquently and passionately described before their trip to Las Vegas? Halt and Catch Fire wouldn’t work as a show if the answer was no. Here’s why not: Halt and Catch Fire has labored mightily to make us believe that’s not all there is to Joe. 'Halt and Catch Fire' Recap: Abort, Retry, Fail? Just ask Gordon, whose encounter with an electrocution victim a few episodes back sent him on a similar journey. That’s a question-your-choices moment if ever there was one. While she can see the faces of her two daughters, who are presumably the subjects of the pictures in the frame, the camera’s placement ensures that we can’t – a subtle but chilling reminder that if things had gone another way that night, Donna would never have seen them again either. Watch Donna’s face when she and Gordon finally return home late that night: arm broken and nerves frayed, she stares at a double photo frame on an end table. Is that where their road really leads?īut you don’t even need to turn to the event’s symbolic resonance. The end result? Getting tossed out of the car in the middle of the road by an armed man while her husband watches helplessly from a distance. Donna departs one symbol of Gordon’s success (the party) in another symbol of Gordon’s success (the Porsche). Perhaps the carjacking that provided the episode’s single most dramatic moment is the key.
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As Donna puts it in code later in the episode, when Gordon presents her with the engagement-slash-decoder ring he promised her nine years back, “I darf you very gerp.” The two of them have decided that their fight about Donna’s borderline infidelity and Gordon’s job-related neglect was about real issues – ones that pale in comparison to the even realer love and respect they share. They walk off to bed, Gordon stomping and swinging in faux-fury. “I’m still very mad at you,” he replies, pointing at her, and surrendering. “Get in there!” she demands, directing Gordon to the bedroom she insists she’ll be sharing with him tonight. Finally, Gordon attempts to settle in on the couch where he’s been sleeping – but Donna has had enough.
Dishes are washed, beers are drunk, TV is watched, all joylessly, silently. The final Halt and Catch Fire of Season One begins with the show’s single most likeable sequence: Things are tense in the Clark household, where Gordon and Donna have evidently not recovered from the COMDEX debacle.
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