![]() ![]() The second season of Halt and Catch Fire sets up another-the one that involves Donna (Kerry Bishé) and Cameron (Mackenzie Davis). I wonder if he’ll ever be ready: Some wounds never quite heal. “I’m not… ready to do that,” he says to his friend and former colleague, Bos (Toby Huss), of fond reminiscences. When Gordon dies, near the end of the series’ fourth and final season, it’s Joe, and not his (now ex-) wife, who takes it the hardest. ![]() Though their relationship’s platonic, it resembles a marriage, growing and changing, becoming deeper, and more complex, with time if it originates with an illicit arrangement-the pilot episode, “I/O,” features their first night together, reconstructing hardware in Gordon’s garage-the partnership emerges as a meeting of soul mates, stronger together than they are apart. Opposites attract, I suppose: In 1983, the latter, a smooth operator with plans to undercut IBM, entices the former, a frustrated engineer with a wife and two children, to create a PC to compete with the tech giant, and over the course of the next decade-plus, the two succeed, spar, fall out, fail and finally repair the damage, bearing key witness to the dawn of the Web. The first season of Halt and Catch Fire sets up a romance-the one that involves Gordon (Scoot McNairy) and Joe (Lee Pace). ![]()
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