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It's Not Too Late for <em>Halt and Catch Fire</em>

There’s still time to catch AMC’s dazzling drama about the dawn of the internet as the show enters its final season.
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For years now, America’s best TV drama has consistently been one of its least watched. With now in its fourth and final season, ratings don’t really matter anymore, especially since the show is airing on AMC on Saturday nights (an audience dead zone if there ever was one). What’s important is that the series gets to complete its story, and will likely be discovered as a hidden gem on some streaming service once it’s finished and easy to binge. That’s because has told the best, most definitive account of the birth of the computer age, the rise of the internet,

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