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I'm almost through Season 2 of Halt and Catch fire. The series switches gears from computers to online services, for a company run by Cameron that has online games, and later chat during the year 1985. Along the way they touch on Commodore 64s, IBM mainframes, UNIX, and even Nintendo. It's interesting that they deal with areas where I have familiarity. I was involved with online services. Also worked with UNIX systems and IBM mainframes There were some liberties that the show has taken, and there was an implication that they stumbled upon broadband before it was available. Also they pretend to put together a UNIX client in 24 hours, but it's really a Commodore client they already had Like Season 1, there's complications that appear in every episode, to the point where I don't find the show enjoyable. Too much happens all the time. I don't know what the writers were thinking. I keep going back to that I don't like the Cameron character I have a feeling that Season 3 is going to switch gears again