AMC Won’t Pick Up Halt and Catch Fire for Season 5
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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
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | So It Goes | Aug 19, 2017 |
| 2 | Signal to Noise | Aug 19, 2017 |
| 3 | Miscellaneous | Aug 26, 2017 |
| 4 | Tonya and Nancy | Sep 9, 2017 |
| 5 | Nowhere Man | Sep 16, 2017 |
| 6 | A Connection is Made | Sep 23, 2017 |
| 7 | Who Needs a Guy | Sep 30, 2017 |
| 8 | Goodwill | Oct 7, 2017 |
| 9 | Search | Oct 14, 2017 |
| 10 | Ten of Swords | Oct 14, 2017 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valley of the Heart's Delight | Aug 23, 2016 |
| 2 | One Way or Another | Aug 23, 2016 |
| 3 | Flipping the Switch | Aug 30, 2016 |
| 4 | Rules of Honorable Play | Sep 6, 2016 |
| 5 | Yerba Buena | Sep 13, 2016 |
| 6 | And She Was | Sep 20, 2016 |
| 7 | The Threshold | Sep 27, 2016 |
| 8 | You Are Not Safe | Oct 4, 2016 |
| 9 | NIM | Oct 11, 2016 |
| 10 | NeXT | Oct 11, 2016 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SETI | May 31, 2015 |
| 2 | New Coke | Jun 7, 2015 |
| 3 | The Way In | Jun 14, 2015 |
| 4 | Play with Friends | Jun 21, 2015 |
| 5 | Extract and Defend | Jun 28, 2015 |
| 6 | 10Broad36 | Jul 5, 2015 |
| 7 | Working for the Clampdown | Jul 12, 2015 |
| 8 | Limbo | Jul 19, 2015 |
| 9 | Kali | Jul 26, 2015 |
| 10 | Heaven is a Place | Aug 2, 2015 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I/O | Jun 1, 2014 |
| 2 | FUD | Jun 8, 2014 |
| 3 | High Plains Hardware | Jun 15, 2014 |
| 4 | Close to the Metal | Jun 22, 2014 |
| 5 | Adventure | Jun 29, 2014 |
| 6 | Landfall | Jul 6, 2014 |
| 7 | Giant | Jul 13, 2014 |
| 8 | The 214s | Jul 20, 2014 |
| 9 | Up Helly Aa | Jul 27, 2014 |
| 10 | 1984 | Aug 3, 2014 |
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Comments 4
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.