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I didn't watch (yet) Halt and Catch Fire, but given your description, I think you would like Silicon Valley too. There the protagonist has a big idea but struggles to make it a real product. Also the jokes told there make it both really funny and interesting, because there's always something true about them.

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Have watched both, very different shows but brilliant in their own way.

The first season of HCF in particular was spectacular (the others are still amazing but for a first season HCF smashed it out the park).

I completely agree. Seasons 2,3,4 were great, but the first one was amazing on how it portrayed the feel of the time, the struggle, everything. They could have stopped at season 1 and I wouldn't have been disappointed.

I DID stop at season 1... Just couldn't get into it after that

I suggest you to continue watching all others seasons if I can give you an advise :). That's right, to me the first serie is amazing, by the way the other ones aren't bad too. I appreciate in HCF the explanation of a company life where problems can happens in any time, fight between people and the risks and possibilities to fail

Same here but I might try again

The other seasons are good, you should persevere.

Agree. I've always wondered that if maybe I'd just been born 10 years earlier, if I might have been involved in some of this stuff instead of just a kid playing with the stuff they made. Watching it was a sort of reverse-vicarious experience.

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