The first promo for AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire aired last night during the finale for The Walking Dead. From what I’ve heard that finale was disappointing. I was tuned in to Showtime, catching television’s more underrated comedy-drama Shameless. But from what I can see, this half-minute promo looks promising.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rpjfl_DeyQ
From AMC’s official page:
“Halt and Catch Fire is set roughly one year after IBM all but corners the market with the release of its first major product – the IBM PC. In this fictional drama, a former IBM executive, Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) plans to reverse engineer the flagship product of his former employer and forces his current company, Cardiff Electric, into the personal computer race. MacMillan enlists the help of Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), a once great engineer who dreams of creating a revolutionary product while trying to manage his initially unsupportive wife Donna (Kerry Bishé), and Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis), a volatile prodigy who puts her future in jeopardy to join MacMillan’s rogue PC project. Halt and Catch Fire thrives on the spirit of innovation and explores what it’s like to stand at the forefront of something world-changing and work towards it, no matter the risk.”