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Halt and Catch Fire (2014)

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ชื่อภาษาอังกฤษ
Halt and Catch Fire
ประเทศ
สหรัฐอเมริกา
ออกอากาศครั้งแรก
1 มิถุนายน 2557
จำนวนตอน
40 ตอน (4 ซีซัน)
ความยาวต่อตอน
ประมาณ 52 นาที
สถานะ
จบแล้ว
ตอนล่าสุด
EP10/10 (14 ตุลาคม 2560)
ช่อง/แพลตฟอร์มต้นทาง
AMC
ผู้สร้าง
Christopher C. Rogers, Christopher Cantwell
เรตผู้ชม
TV-14
คะแนน TMDB
7.9/10 (600 โหวต)

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During the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, an unlikely trio - a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy - take personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world as they know it.

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นักแสดง Halt and Catch Fire

  • ลี เพซลี เพซรับบท Joe MacMillan
  • Scoot McNairyScoot McNairyรับบท Gordon Clark
  • Mackenzie DavisMackenzie Davisรับบท Cameron Howe
  • Kerry BishéKerry Bishéรับบท Donna Clark
  • Toby HussToby Hussรับบท John 'Bos' Bosworth
  • Alana CavanaughAlana Cavanaughรับบท Haley Clark
  • August EmersonAugust Emersonรับบท Malcolm 'Lev' Levitan
  • Morgan HinklemanMorgan Hinklemanรับบท Joanie Clark
  • Annabeth GishAnnabeth Gishรับบท Diane Gould
  • Cooper AndrewsCooper Andrewsรับบท Yo-Yo
  • Nick PupoNick Pupoรับบท Carl
  • Gabriel ManakGabriel Manakรับบท Arki

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เจาะลึก Halt and Catch Fire: เนื้อเรื่อง การสร้าง และเสียงวิจารณ์

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 is a reference to Halt and Catch Fire (HCF), an idiom for machine code instructions that would cause a 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 reverse engineer an IBM PC and build a 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. Several publications have ranked it among the greatest shows of the 21st century.

Premise

Taking place over a period of more than ten years, Halt and Catch Fire 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 series begins in 1983, just as IBM is cornering the personal computer market with the IBM PC. Entrepreneur Joe MacMillan joins Cardiff Electric, a fictional Dallas-based mainframe software company, and has a vision of building a revolutionary computer to challenge IBM. For the project, he enlists the help of computer engineer Gordon Clark and prodigy programmer Cameron Howe. Taking advantage of the open architecture of the IBM PC, the characters reverse engineer its BIOS and set out to build a clone called the "Giant", but obstacles both internal and external threaten to derail the project. Halt and Catch Fire follows the protagonists' endeavors in the computing industry, their shifting partnerships and competitive relationships, and the personal costs of pursuing their professional ambitions.

Main

Lee Pace as Joe MacMillan: an entrepreneur and former IBM sales executive who joins Cardiff Electric and instigates a project to reverse engineer the IBM PC. Joe is a charismatic, slick-talking businessman and a tech visionary obsessed with pursuing "the next big thing", despite a lack of technical skills. Owing to the creators' original conception of him as an antihero, Joe uses manipulative tactics in his endeavors, bending people to his will to get what he wants. He is portrayed as an enigmatic figure with a dark backstory, having left IBM under mysterious circumstances. The Sydney Morning Herald described Joe as an "acutely damaged man underneath the slick suits, bravado and motivational speak", while Pace said his character was hiding behind a persona. Critics compared Joe to the Mad Men character Don Draper. In subsequent seasons, Joe is humbled by his professional failures and how his actions affect other people, and as he comes to terms with his behavior, he becomes what critics felt was a more empathetic character. Pace said that Joe's bisexuality was a reflection of the character being a "mutable person", "a questioner and a disrupter", and someone who "doesn't feel limitations". The idea for the character was inspired by co-creator Christopher Cantwell's father, who was a software salesman. For Joe's personality, Pace recalled "corporate raiders and that kind of spirit of '80s excess" upon reading the pilot, and he took inspiration from real-life figures Steve Jobs, Ivan Boesky, and Michael Milken, as well as the fictional characters Patrick Bateman and Gordon Gekko. Later in the series, Joe initiates projects involving time-sharing, antivirus software (MacMillan Utility), the NSFNET computer network, and a search engine (Comet).

Scoot McNairy as Gordon Clark: a computer engineer at Cardiff Electric who Joe recruits to reverse engineer the IBM PC and lead the Giant's hardware team. After the failure of the Symphonic, a computer he built with his wife Donna years earlier, Gordon gave up on his dreams and retreated to a dead-end job before having his ambitions reignited by Joe. Farhad Manjoo of The New York Times likened Gordon to Breaking Bad's protagonist Walter White, calling him "apparently brilliant but underutilized in his job, and smugly depressive about his lot in life". Cantwell said that McNairy was cast in the role because the creators wanted an actor "who could be a nebbish, with his shoulders shrunken in, but then also reveal himself unexpectedly to be a budding alpha male." Despite not having a background in computing, McNairy related to his character as a fellow tinkerer and builder, drawing from his interest in fixing engines, radios, and air conditioners and his experience in carpentry. McNairy built the foundation of his character on having a chip on his shoulder and something to prove, which were personality traits he came across from researching computer engineers of the past. Critics also compared Gordon's working dynamic with Joe to that of Steve Wozniak with Steve Jobs, two co-founders of Apple Computer. Gordon's talents are frequently undercut by poor decisions and bad luck, as well as his deteriorating mental state due to toxic encephalopathy, the result of extended exposure to lead solder; Dennis Perkins of The A.V. Club called him "Halt's tragic hero—the dreamer without the necessary piece to ever truly succeed". In subsequent seasons, Gordon works at Mutiny, runs the CalNect Internet service provider, and co-founds the Comet search engine.

Mackenzie Davis as Cameron Howe (born Catherine Howe): a computer programming prodigy who is recruited from a university by Joe to join Cardiff Electric and write the Giant's BIOS. The creators made the character female and a punk because they wanted to depict someone who was disruptive to the 1980s corporate culture of the tech industry, while her interest in video games was meant to signify the coming generation and its technology. Davis said that her character "doesn't fit into this male-dominated computer world, nor does she fit into the idea of feminine beauty of Texas and the South" with her androgynous appearance. A video game designer, Cameron later forms her own startup company, the online gaming service Mutiny, which she runs with Donna. To prepare for the role, Davis drew from prior experience writing HTML in a high school class, and she watched online programming courses from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while trying to get into the mindset of a college student. She also researched the history of women's roles in the tech industry, as well as early hackers such as phone phreakers. Her character was inspired by people such as Sierra On-Line game designer Roberta Williams, Centipede designer Dona Bailey, and pioneering programmers Grace Hopper and Ada Lovelace. Cameron is anti-social, and finds the "truest expression of herself" through her work. James Poniewozik called her an "idealist who saw computing as art—the machines could have personality, could inspire emotion, could be a place to play". Filling the void left by her father's death during the Vietnam War, Cameron's frequent co-worker John Bosworth becomes a father figure to her. After Mutiny, she goes to work for Atari and develops the successful Space Bike game series.

Kerry Bishé as Donna Clark (née Emerson): a computer engineer at Texas Instruments. After a failed attempt to build a computer with her husband Gordon years earlier, Donna put her dreams on hold to focus on raising their two daughters, and she has misgivings about him getting involved in the Giant's development. To dispel the notion that her character was merely the disapproving, "wet blanket wife" in a television drama, Bishé was adamant that she be able to adroitly disassemble and fix the children's Speak & Spell in the series pilot, hinting at the depth of her character. Donna is eventually enlisted by Gordon to aid Cardiff Electric with the development of the Giant. Contrasting with her character's technical expertise, Bishé described herself as a Luddite, and in preparing for the role, she did not find it necessary to "understand the way the computers work" but rather she wanted to "understand the people that understand the way computers work". The backstory and first initials of Gordon and Donna were references to Gary and Dorothy Kildall, the married couple who founded Digital Research and whose CP/M operating system was displaced after IBM's introduction of DOS. After Gordon's pursuit of his dreams in the first season, Donna takes the opportunity to pursue her own ambitions when she joins Mutiny to co-manage the company with Cameron. There, she reluctantly "becom[es] den mother to Mutiny's nerdy employees", her pragmatism contrasting with Cameron's manic work style. Donna grows into a "savvy businesswoman", and after Mutiny, she joins a venture capital firm, culminating her evolution from "unfulfilled sidekick to cutthroat Silicon Valley executive". Like Cameron, Donna was partially inspired by Williams, Bailey, Hopper, and Lovelace.

Toby Huss as John "Bos" Bosworth: the senior vice president of Cardiff Electric who hires Joe. John is a back-slapping businessman known for his folksy, "good ol' boy" charm. In the first season, he represents the "established Texas American capitalist patriarchy", according to Huss, and is positioned as an antagonist to the other characters building the Giant. Huss said the creators initially envisioned the character as "an older, sedentary kind of conservative Republican Texas guy", but they decided to shift course for the character after Huss gave an unexpectedly energetic performance in his audition. The writers subsequently wrote to what Rogers called a "really surprising warmth and vulnerability" that Huss brought to the character, as well as his unexpected chemistry with Davis during their scenes together. John subsequently becomes a father figure to Cameron, having neglected his own family over the years due to his job. John was based on "Black" Jack Bertram, an IBM executive. For the character, Huss took inspiration partly from his uncle Tom Rollins, a long-time employee of the oil industry in Houston, and he developed John's accent by blending the speaking styles of his Iowan father and the Montanan Rollins. Amidst the changing landscape of the technology industry, John grapples with how to adapt to avoid becoming a "dinosaur aging out of the business". In the process, he becomes more open-minded and acknowledges the brilliance of the young developers and their innovations. After Cardiff Electric, he is hired by Cameron to provide managerial experience at Mutiny, and later by Donna to oversee the search engine Rover.

Aleksa Palladino as Sara Wheeler (season 2): A freelance journalist and Joe's romantic partner.

Conception

Halt and Catch Fire was created by Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers, who met while working at the Walt Disney Company. Cantwell's online movie company was acquired by Disney and he was moved into its marketing department, while Rogers was hired by Cantwell's team to manage Disney's editorial program for social media. After a year of working together, they learned that they had each graduated from screenwriting programs in college—Cantwell from the University of Southern California as an undergraduate student, and Rogers from the University of California, Los Angeles as a graduate student. Rogers referred to himself and Cantwell as "dream-deferred writers". In August 2010, they agreed to partner as screenwriters. For their first collaboration, Rogers helped Cantwell with creating a television adaptation of his film screenplay Very Prepared Men, a story about a secret society of the ultra-wealthy. Rogers shared the script with Chris Huvane, a former colleague from Condé Nast who had become a talent manager at Management 360. Huvane and his coworker Jennifer Graham offered to represent Cantwell and Rogers, while urging them to produce another script they could use as a staffing sample. Since the managers thought it was unlikely a network would option a script from first-time writers, their intent was to use the sample script to land Cantwell and Rogers entry-level writing positions in the industry. The managers advised them to write something in which they were personally invested.

Cantwell and Rogers initially discussed "men under pressure" stories like Glengarry Glen Ross, although they did not want their subjects to be doctors or police officers, believing them to be well-trod territory in television. As they brainstormed, Cantwell recalled his childhood; in 1982, when he was just six weeks old, his family moved from Elgin, Illinois, to Plano, Texas, so his father could take a job as a systems software salesman for UCCEL Corp. During his childhood, Cantwell had been unaware of Texas's role in the personal computer revolution of the 1980s, but after speaking to his father and researching the era with Rogers, they learned how the Silicon Prairie of Dallas–Fort Worth (in which Plano is located) became a secondary technology hub behind California's Silicon Valley. Companies in the Silicon Prairie included Texas Instruments, Electronic Data Systems, Tandy, and RadioShack, while elsewhere in Texas, Dell (in Austin) and Compaq (in Houston) were also prominent players in the PC industry. Executive producer Jonathan Lisco said: "[Texas] was viewed by a lot of people at the time, per our research, as sort of a catch basin for people who had not succeeded [in Silicon Valley]. On the other hand, there was a lot of wonderful tech going on here." Cantwell said that he and Rogers were intrigued by the lesser-known players and settings of the tech industry: "We wanted to find the place you didn't know. Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, IBM, Microsoft, all those stories and companies have been exploited dramatically to great effect." In their research, Cantwell and Rogers came across stories of computer engineers at Compaq taking risks by attempting to reverse engineer the IBM PC. The duo conceived the pilot for Halt and Catch Fire in January 2011. The first eight pages of the script followed their protagonist Joe MacMillan at IBM. In May, Cantwell quit his job at Disney, though Rogers remained until the future of their project was assured.

Development

Cantwell and Rogers finished the draft of their pilot in the summer of 2011. Their agents liked the script but were not optimistic about selling it. After a few unproductive meetings, Cantwell and Rogers turned their attention to writing film scripts; one of them called The Knoll, about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, appeared on the Black List of popular unproduced screenplays. At the end of that summer, Cantwell and Rogers asked their agent again to shop the Halt and Catch Fire pilot to television networks, leading to meetings with HBO and Showtime that were mostly introductory in nature. In late October, they met with AMC, by which point Cantwell had been out of work for five months and was quickly diminishing his savings. He and Rogers were surprised to find that the AMC executives had a copy of their script at the meeting. One of them, Ben Davis, said: "We were really interested in trying to tap into that world—into the spirit of innovation, and the tech world specifically. I loved the idea that it took place in Dallas and that I didn't hear Steve Jobs' or Bill Gates' name. It approached it from the backdoor instead of straight ahead." After a second meeting with Cantwell and Rogers on December 5, 2011, AMC optioned the script the following day.

To continue to develop the project, AMC brought in Gran Via Productions' Mark Johnson and Melissa Bernstein, who were producing the network's hit drama series Breaking Bad at the time. They helped Cantwell and Rogers refine the pilot and create a 20-page pitch document, which Rogers said they worked on "day and night". The creators called Johnson and Bernstein their "advocates... with the network". In March 2012, Cantwell learned that AMC would not make a decision about the project until autumn; by that point, he and his wife had depleted their savings. In April, Cantwell and Rogers presented Halt and Catch Fire at AMC's annual pilot script showcase, dubbed the "Bake-Off"; network executives opted to keep the project in consideration. On October 23, 2012, Cantwell and Rogers pitched the network on how they envisioned Halt and Catch Fire as a potential series. The network ordered a pilot the following month. The project was Cantwell's and Rogers's first jobs in the television industry. Cantwell said, "The first writers' room we walked into was our own." In July 2013, the network announced a series order of 10 episodes.

Casting

In February 2013, it was announced that Lee Pace had been cast in the lead role of Joe MacMillan, and Mackenzie Davis in a co-starring role as Cameron Howe. Actors that were considered for the role of Joe included David Harbour, Ryan Phillippe, and Wes Bentley. The role of Cameron took the longest to cast, with actors such as Dakota Johnson and Brie Larson auditioning for it. After Davis's screen test, the creators were convinced they had found the perfect person to portray her.

In March, it was announced that Scoot McNairy had been cast as Gordon Clark and Kerry Bishé as Gordon's wife Donna; it was a reunion for the two actors, who had played a married couple in the film Argo a year prior. Actors that auditioned for the role of Gordon included Jimmi Simpson and Jason Mantzoukas, while Karen Gillan was considered for the role of Donna. During the casting process, McNairy emailed the creators to tell them how the pilot's story resonated with him, as he grew up in Dallas and his father had been a salesman. Also in March, David Wilson Barnes was cast as Dale Butler. Barnes was initially credited among the main cast in the pilot episode, but his character was written out after just two episodes when the story went in a different direction.

For season two, Aleksa Palladino joined the cast as a regular, while James Cromwell and Mark O'Brien joined as recurring characters. For season three, Manish Dayal was cast as Ryan Ray, an Indian-American computer programmer native to San Francisco. Cantwell and Rogers created the character to match the change in demographic after the series's setting shifted to Northern California. Matthew Lillard and Annabeth Gish were also cast in recurring roles. For season four, Kathryn Newton and Susanna Skaggs were cast to play teenaged versions of the Clarks' daughters, and Anna Chlumsky joined in a supporting role.

Prior to the fourth season, AMC addressed the gender pay gap among its four leads by giving Davis and Bishé salary raises to match what Pace and McNairy were earning. Davis and Bishé were relatively unknown when they signed their original deals at lower salaries; Davis was earning the minimum rate at the time. Their characters were given more screen time beginning with the second season, but the actresses did not feel they were being equitably compensated for their work. Before Davis and Bishé could renegotiate with AMC, the network gave them unsolicited raises.

Showrunners

Since Cantwell and Rogers were new to the television industry, AMC wanted someone with more experience to be the series's showrunner. The network consequently hired Jonathan Lisco for the role in July 2013 as part of a two-year deal, following his three-season tenure as an executive producer of the drama series Southland. Lisco was impressed by the pilot script for Halt and Catch Fire but initially was unconvinced that he was best suited to be the showrunner. He did not view himself as a technophile and wondered if there would be "enough stakes in the bits and the bytes", saying the subject matter did not "dramatically blow your hair back". The network assuaged his concerns by telling him that they believed he could delve deep into the characters to create stakes. Lisco also felt an immediate creative connection with Cantwell and Rogers upon meeting them, and sensing they had a strong vision for the series, he signed on as showrunner. Leasing office space in Studio City, Los Angeles, Lisco guided Cantwell and Rogers through the process of assessing and hiring writers.

After two seasons, Lisco stepped down as the showrunner to work on the TNT television series Animal Kingdom. Joel Stillerman, AMC's president of original programming and development, called Lisco's departure "completely amicable". Cantwell and Rogers took over as showrunners prior to the third season. Rogers called Lisco the duo's mentor, saying: "He kept us creatively involved and really showed us the ropes, and we felt like it was a master class in how to run a room, both in terms of getting a great story out of people, and in terms of being a really good and decent and fair person in what can sometimes be a brutal industry."

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