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The way that Halt and Catch Fire was unrealistic is that the women I've known who enjoyed and were good at programming were not emotionally volatile at all. HB
by narrator 9y ago
The way that Halt and Catch Fire was unrealistic is that the women I've known who enjoyed and were good at programming were not emotionally volatile at all.
HBO's Silicon Valley does a much better job portraying this personality type.
- amyjess 9y agoI stopped watching HCF after the first season because I was tired of the show going out of its way to point out that all the main characters are a bunch of screwed-up emotionally unstable whackjobs. Not just the female characters, either. Remember Gordon's breakdown when he dug up his backyard? Watching the show made me feel like I was babysitting every less-than-stable person I've interacted with all at the same time, and it was so emotionally exhausting I couldn't bring myself to watch another season. It's a shame, too, because I really love the premise of the series. A show about the early days of the PC industry set in my hometown? I was so excited about it... but I just couldn't continue.