Halt and Catch Fire
SETI
TV Flash files “SETI” as a desk essential hour — Halt and Catch Fire (2014–2017) on AMC, season 2, episode 1, aired 2015-05-31, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 11 of 40 in the Halt and Catch Fire guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 2015-05-31 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “1984” (S01E10). Next is “New Coke” (S02E02).
Essential hour: “SETI”. SETI is a listening title as the show finds its soul mid-run — tech history as human drama, not gadget porn.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In the Season 2 opener, Cameron and Donna's fledgling gaming company, Mutiny, finds itself at a crossroads. Meanwhile, Joe and Gordon are reunited in the wake of Cardiff's sale.
Viewer FAQ
Where does SETI sit in the Halt and Catch Fire guide?
S02E01 is listed hour 11 of 40 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.
When did Halt and Catch Fire S02E01 air?
SETI aired 2015-05-31 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is it slow at first?
It found its soul mid-run. Seasons 3–4 are the critic-consensus peak; starting at one teaches the beige-box ambition the later years earn.
In the series
Why this series still plays
1980s clones to early web: Joe's pitch, Gordon's hardware heartbreak, Cameron and Donna building companies the industry still would not credit. AMC's critics' darling that found its soul mid-run. Tech history as human drama — ambition in beige boxes, and a prestige show actually about making the future.
The flash is a beige box and a pitch that should have been a premiere. Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers's AMC drama (2014–2017) — Lee Pace's Joe MacMillan selling the next computing revolution, Scoot McNairy's Gordon taking the hardware heartbreak, Mackenzie Davis's Cameron and Kerry Bishé's Donna building companies the industry still would not credit, Toby Huss's Bosworth in the blast radius. Texas clones to early web. Relationships crash as hard as stock prices. The museum guard will call it…
Filed against
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- Scoot McNairy as Gordon Clark
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- Mackenzie Davis as Cameron Howe
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- Kerry Bishé as Donna Clark
Kerry Bishé's Donna Clark built companies the industry would not credit on Halt and Catch Fire — AMC's 1980s-clones-to-early-web critics' darling, beige-box ambition, hardware heartbreak with a woman's ledger. TV Flash files her as 2010s…
- Toby Huss as John Bosworth
Toby Huss’s Artie the Strongest Man turned The Adventures of Pete & Pete into kid logic as literature — endless summer, garage bands, a suburb like an indie film — then walked Halt and Catch Fire’s beige-box ambition. Nickelodeon poetry…