In the end, Halt and Catch Fire was more Six Feet Under than Mad Men

The A.V. Club

Sean O’Neal says both Halt and Catch Fire and Six Feet Under “were portraits of perpetually uncertain, unsatisfied people, always believing that their next big, life-changing leap will finally be the thing to make them feel whole. Both shows were about how their search for that fulfillment causes them to shut out and repeatedly hurt the ones they love. And both were dramas that overcame their somewhat-gimmicky premises—a family who lives in a funeral home; a mysterious yuppie helping geeks build a computer—to find their greatest resonance in small, quietly devastating, human interactions.”

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• Kerry Bishé says she read the final script with the cast, “and then I reread it later in my car and I wept”
• Halt “thoroughly and humanely depicted the profound ways a small cast of characters changed each other”