‘Halt and Catch Fire’ and AMC’s Push to Reset Dramas

Programming

While ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ is a promising pilot for the network, how many montages of pasty engineers poking at circuit boards can a show uncork before becoming a bore?

Published May 30 2014 5:45AM EDT

articles/2014/05/30/halt-and-catch-fire-and-amc-s-push-to-reset-dramas/140529-romano-halt-fire-tease_cs8dcw — James Minchin III/AMC

AMC is in trouble.

OK, not trouble trouble. Not we’re-in-imminent-danger-of-vanishing-from-TV trouble. But consider where the network finds itself right now. Breaking Bad—one of the greatest television dramas of all time, with a finale that attracted 10.3

Andrew Romano

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‘Halt and Catch Fire’ and AMC’s Push to Reset Dramas

While ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ is a promising pilot for the network, how many montages of pasty engineers poking at circuit boards can a show uncork before becoming a bore?

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Andrew Romano