Why Halt and Catch Fire was this decade's best show

Thrillist

The 2014-2017 AMC period drama on the birth of the computer revolution "was not the most viral show of the decade," says Esther Zuckerman. "It was generously praised by critics, but it wasn't the most consistently acclaimed either, and it was largely ignored during awards season, so loving it felt like being part of a small but passionate club. But perhaps more than any other show that began during this decade, Halt and Catch Fire captured the agony of trying to navigate a world where it's easier and easier to hide behind a computer screen. In documenting the beginning of the boom that brought us to where we are, creators Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers created characters who reflected universal anxieties through their longing."