First episode is up here

http://www.amctv.com/full-episodes/halt-and-catch-fire/3571290828001/i-o-full-episode

SPOILER ALERT

I think I might have just seen what might be the shortest game of Centipede I've seen played since the days of the old arcade video game show Starcade (not "Starrcade," which is different)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starcade

Ol' girl seems to be going for a Some Kind of Wonderful-era Mary Stuart Masterson vibe, from the short hair on down



After watching, I'll keep watching but I was kinda eh on it. It's a good pilot, it does what it's supposed to do plot-wise as far as setting up the premise of the show, but the characters aren't all that interesting to me yet.

Joe (Lee Pace) and Gordon (Scott McNairy) show promise, and of course you can't possibly know everything there is to know about the characters in the pilot, but they were still kind of... stock: the renegade and the buttoned-up genius are fitna team up! And, seeing as the show's set in Dallas, you'd think Toby Huss' drawl wouldn't have been bothersome, but it stuck out like a sore thumb and threw me out of the show a couple of times.

I will mention that I am glad that the setting (1983), at least in the pilot, is not a character on the show, like it is on a show like, say, The Goldbergs. There's no real fetishizing/pimping of nostalgia for 80s artifacts like the Porsche or the Centipede arcade game or the Speak-n-Spell. These objects exist in this world, but they're NOT the world: in other words, the show isn't showing me these items in order to elicit a nostalgic reaction. Granted, this is supposed to be a drama and The Goldbergs is allegedly a comedy, but the difference is refreshing.

I'll just cop to wanting to see where it goes.

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