When AMC’s Texas-set computer company drama Halt and Catch Fire returns on Sunday, May 31, fans should brace themselves for a wild ride into the high-tech year of… 1985. “It’s about 14 months after the end of season 1,” says executive producer Jonathan Lisco. “I think the price of a stamp was skyrocketing to 22 cents and everybody was watching Moonlighting—it’s that era.”
In the first season of Halt and Catch Fire, the show’s main characters moved heaven, earth, and a whole lot of computer chips to create a PC called the Giant. The season finale found Scoot McNairy’s much-harassed systems builder Gordon Clark presiding over the launch of the computer, Lee Pace’s besu...
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