Halt and Catch Fire: The best TV show no one watched. The series premiered in 2014, but almost 10 years later it is still one of the best shows out there. The period drama, set in the 80s, follows the PC revolution and the early days of the internet. It stars Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy, and Mackenzie Davis as a cut-throat entrepreneur, a computer engineer, and a prodigy programmer, an unlikely and discordant trio making their foray into personal computing. Originally developed by AMC to replace Mad Men following its finale, it focuses on the mirage created by an emerging industry, and the continuous barrage of obstacles that impede — and sometimes breed — innovation.

This isn’t to say that it’s strictly business — the interpersonal dynamics (and delicious drama) between the characters keep you hooked just as tightly as the technological stakes at hand. There are no good or bad guys on the show — every character is flawed and every character has a wealth of strengths. The show is as much about failure as it is about success, and borrows its name from a computing term — a line of code that causes a computer’s CPU to lock up and cease operation, forcing the user to restart it. Sometimes, however, this bit of code causes the computer to overheat in the process, and, you guessed it, catch fire.

WHERE TO WATCH- You can catch the show on Apple TV.

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