Halt and Catch Fire
2014
AMC
4 Seasons
40 Episodes
The fourth will also be the final season for this 80s show about computer geeks and the very first steps of the internet
8.6
(22 votes)

AMC Won’t Pick Up Halt and Catch Fire for Season 5

Current Show Status
Halt and Catch Fire Season 5 — Canceled
Latest Episode Aired Sat 10/14/2017 Ten of Swords Season 4: Episode 10
Next Episode Show ended 40 episodes total
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As it was already been announced last October, Halt and Catch Fire will end after the fourth and final season, so ratings and viewing figures no longer matter. However, looking at the numbers, it somewhat explains why the show was capped at the season 4 mark. Having to beat viewership ratings of shows such as Breaking Bad or The Walking Dead, Halt and Catch Fire didn’t manage to connect with its audience as well as it was expected, although the network praises the drama as a strong creative effort. Even such amazingly strong approval ratings as a very impressive 8.3 out of 10 stars on IMDb, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes and 83% on Metacritic couldn’t save the show. After all, the series originally garnered an audience of over 1 Million viewers for the first episode, but that then dropped to under 0.3 Million for some of the latest episodes. This is the main reason, why the show ends after the fourth season, which will be on October 21st, 2017 with the episode “Ten of Swords”.

Storyline and production info

Halt and Catch Fire is a popular drama series, which originally debuted in 2014 on the American network AMC. Set in the 1980s in Texas, it was created by Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers, executive produced by Cantwell, Rogers, Jonathan Lisco, Mark Johnson and Melissa Bernstein and hails from AMC Studios, Lockjaw Productions and Gran Via Productions. The current ten-episode fourth installment premiered on August 19th, 2017 and it will also be the final season.

The personal computer boom is portrayed through the eyes of people who came together to create Mutiny, a fictionalized innovative company that has the guts to confront corporate giants of that time, such as IBM. Texan Silicon Prairie in Dallas serves as the setting for the clash of the three protagonists’ egos – Mutiny’s CEO Cameron (Mackenzie Davis) and co-founders Joe (Lee Pace) and (Gordon (Scoot McNairy) risk everything to bring their vision of a new generation of personal computers to life and start a revolution, which also involves the very first steps of the mighty internet.


Episodes

Season 4 Season 3 Season 2 Season 1
#NameAir Dates
1So It Goes Aug 19, 2017
2Signal to Noise Aug 19, 2017
3Miscellaneous Aug 26, 2017
4Tonya and Nancy Sep 9, 2017
5Nowhere Man Sep 16, 2017
6A Connection is Made Sep 23, 2017
7Who Needs a Guy Sep 30, 2017
8Goodwill Oct 7, 2017
9Search Oct 14, 2017
10Ten of Swords Oct 14, 2017
#NameAir Dates
1Valley of the Heart's Delight Aug 23, 2016
2One Way or Another Aug 23, 2016
3Flipping the Switch Aug 30, 2016
4Rules of Honorable Play Sep 6, 2016
5Yerba Buena Sep 13, 2016
6And She Was Sep 20, 2016
7The Threshold Sep 27, 2016
8You Are Not Safe Oct 4, 2016
9NIM Oct 11, 2016
10NeXT Oct 11, 2016
#NameAir Dates
1SETI May 31, 2015
2New Coke Jun 7, 2015
3The Way In Jun 14, 2015
4Play with Friends Jun 21, 2015
5Extract and Defend Jun 28, 2015
610Broad36 Jul 5, 2015
7Working for the Clampdown Jul 12, 2015
8Limbo Jul 19, 2015
9Kali Jul 26, 2015
10Heaven is a Place Aug 2, 2015
#NameAir Dates
1I/O Jun 1, 2014
2FUD Jun 8, 2014
3High Plains Hardware Jun 15, 2014
4Close to the Metal Jun 22, 2014
5Adventure Jun 29, 2014
6Landfall Jul 6, 2014
7Giant Jul 13, 2014
8The 214s Jul 20, 2014
9Up Helly Aa Jul 27, 2014
101984 Aug 3, 2014

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0 0 Richard  June 19, 2023
I have season 1 and 2 on DVD. AMC will not sell season 3 and 4 Halt and Catch Fire on DVD to complete my Series. You can pay to stream load it on T.V. put i prefer to watch the whole series when i want to. I shot them an email but they don't know if they are going to or not.
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0 0 Adam 1  December 23, 2017
It is a pity that this show got cancelled. I never knew it existed until after it’s demise. I get that ratings had gone down. I have purchased and watched all four Seasons in the last month.
This series has it all.
Great character and storyline development. Great acting by all of the cast. This also means, great directing and editing.
All of the above made this series a rare treat in a landscape that too often supports mediocrity in all of those categories.
The last episode left me wishing that A&E would have at least wound it down with some class and respect. Maybe HBO could pick it up and run with it now.
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0 2 andaline  October 18, 2016
Joe MacMillan was a Mutiny's cofinder? REALLY? Watch first season to see how they all met, what was the history of Mutiny and what was BEFORE Mutiny, because all the story in the first season is about what happened before and that is very important part, it is base and beginning of all this. Mutiny appears at the last episode of first season, so NO, the story was not about this company at the beginning. What's moreover - NO, Mutiny does not compete with IBM, because Mutiny does not produce computers. CARDIFF ELECTRIC DID. And Cardiff Electric is the beginning of whole story. Have you ever watched this show at all or asked anyone who HAS watched?
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0 1 Rick G andaline  October 21, 2016
Amen, Andaline. The content of this synopsis is [censored]y. I love this show and am saddened that a season 5 will not happen though it is good that loose ends will be tied up.
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