Following the struggles of an ambitious engineer, who plans for inventing a computer that can change the future during the technological revolution, receiving help from a prodigy. A new season begins with Gordon faces terrible in his work.
The thing Halt and Catch Fire is so clear-eyed about that many other tech-based stories miss is how technology doesn't make people different. Instead, people take technology and bend it to their will.
The cast is at their very best. They know their characters so well it feels less like watch TV than peering into history itself. These are the people I wish had been responsible for bringing us into the modern technical age.
The show has always focused more on the process. Its visual style manages to charge meetings, coding sessions, or a group of people standing in front of a whiteboard with creative potential.