To get away from Six Feet Under, The Wire, Mad Men, or The West Wing for a bit, there's a series I had stumbled upon that blew my mind. I watched it again this week and it transported me again. But most of all, episode 8 - what the writers call the "turning point", where the protagonist(s) decide(s) to face their destiny - had a strong effect on me. It did it again.
The show is Halt and Catch Fire and the episode in question is called "The 214's."
It's nice to see a series thought out from the ground up. It doesn't feel like the writers are tricking themselves and constantly having to justify previously made-up nonsense. The characters are consistent. It goes somewhere. It's telling something.
In this eighth episode, after the dramatic setbacks we've come to expect before the climax, the three main characters make the decision to take the plunge and throw themselves into the void. Except that here, it's not the usual writing exercise seen a thousand times. I believed it. I was with them. Everything that had happened previously suddenly made sense and made me want to hit the road with them to Comdex.
And the opening credits were quite something.
I can't seem to find the subsequent seasons in VO. And I may be a little afraid of being disappointed. But if you have any leads...
