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He’s always been an anti-hero, but as Donna and Cameron choose to team up again, it’s worth wondering how many more times all of their usual patterns might continue to repeat. An obvious question is what we’re meant to make of this final decision, and of Joe. It seems Joe’s done that here-scrapping everything once more and starting fresh. It’s a computing process in which problems of increasing size are solved by using the same method over and over again. As the bell rings, he steps into the classroom and delivers the same opening line he gave at the top of the first episode: “Let me start by asking a question.”Ĭameron had introduced a computer-science term earlier in the hour: recursion. Pictures of Gordon, Cameron, and Haley adorn his office.

#Halt and catch fire cast series

As the series comes to a close, we find Joe sitting in his new office he’s a humanities teacher. For Joe, however, it seems no such peace could be found in California-especially once his and Gordon’s final joint venture, Comet, officially got out-maneuvered by Yahoo! So he moved back to Armonk, New York-where his family is from, and where IBM is headquartered. Donna, true to form, managed to keep a composed facade despite her own struggles Cameron found some comfort through opening up to Donna Gordon and Donna’s daughters, Joanie and Haley, found solace in one another. In many ways, Joe seemed to struggle the most with processing Gordon’s loss. “And for a while it did.” Then Joe left without so much as a goodbye, disappointing Cameron once again.

But as Joe told Cameron, when he talks about computers as “the thing that gets you to the thing,” the thing he’s really been trying to get to is. Had Donna not started where she did in Season 1, her words would not have felt nearly as earned.Ĭameron’s will-they, won’t-they romance also came to a conclusion ultimately, they did not end up together. But only at the end of the series was she in position to give this speech. In Season 2, she and Cameron created something greater than any of the men Season 1 had focused on so intensely. At first, she was an overworked wife vying for a seat at the table as her husband and his co-workers chased glory. The biggest shift between Halt’s first season and the rest is the way it’s treated Donna. The you that’s never satisfied with what you just did because you’re obsessed with whatever is next. And if that person is a man, it might not even be better-it just might get more attention. One of the many things I’ve learned is that no matter what you do, somebody is around the next corner with a better version of it. That always comes with a price, but I did them. I can’t sleep at night sometimes worrying if I’m seeing my kids enough, or if I’ve been there enough for them, or if it’s already too late. I am a woman who lost a marriage to, among other things, this line of work. I am a woman who voted her female partner out of her own company-the company she founded. “I’ve been in tech for 18 years,” Donna tells a bevy of female colleagues. Then, in the series’ final hour, Donna offered a retrospective on her own life and career-one that, especially in the context of this week’s events, is perhaps even more poignant: This drama has certainly grown a lot-but now, with the pieces all in place, it seems fair to say that it was also brilliant from the start. But as Joe Macmillan capped the series finale by intoning the same exact words he used in his initial sales pitch four seasons ago, it’s hard not to look back fondly even on Season 1, as though each of these characters’ memories, and their journeys, have been our own. Sometimes they’ve collaborated, and sometimes they’ve stabbed each other in the back. And as a group, they’ve demonstrated the computer command referenced by the show’s title: each has followed their ambitions, competing ruthlessly to get to an unseen top of the food chain. With each subsequent season, all of the show’s five main characters-Joe, Cameron, Gordon, Donna, and Bosworth-has become irresistibly complex.

But in Season 2, Halt shifted its focus toward its two female protagonists-particularly Donna, wife of tech wiz Gordon Clark, taking charge of a company of her own. Coming on the heels of AMC’s Mad Men, the series premiere felt like well-trod territory: a charismatic womanizer in a suit talking strangers into making big, disruptive decisions. It’s become common practice as a Halt and Catch Fire fan to disavow the show’s first season. This post contains spoilers for Halt and Catch Fire’s two-part series finale.