Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Halt and Catch Fire 2.04

Play with Friends

- Joe tries to lure Gordon into working with him on a project at his future father-in-law's company; Gordon goes along with Joe's idea but only after some negotiations about how the work will proceed; Gordon is hoping that his efforts will help raise mutiny after he almost destroyed their network in the previous episode.
- Donna and Cameron continue to squabble over the Community application after the network crashed; the usage of the Community application continues to outpace the growth or recovery of users on the game platform which Donna heralds as a reason to keep it but Cameron fails to see the value of Community until she finally gives it a try and then inadvertently posts something snarky about Donna for everyone to see
- Boz starts working for Mutiny; his first job is (in the wake of the network's meltdown) reaching out to some of their most active users but soon thereafter Cameron enlists him to try and get the company into better shape since they are so cash poor that they can't afford to pay their employees
- Gordon collapses while working on the mainframe for Joe; he shrugs it off but I'm starting to wonder if it isn't connected to the nose bleed from the first episode of the season
- Tom and Cameron kiss; I was starting to wonder if he was gay; at first I thought I saw a spark between the two of them but then there was nothing and I started to read him as possibly being gay; now I'm a bit disappointed that he isn't but maybe he is and this is just a phase; I hate it when people assume that somebody is gay just because they don't date or show interest in members of the opposite sex frequently; there was more to my assumption of his sexual preference than the fact that he didn't seem to be interested in Cameron after they first met; it had a lot to do with the way he acted, dressed, and didn't seem to want to be one of the guys at Mutiny, until towards the end of this episode
- at the very end of the episode Donna is locked in the bathroom with what I'm guessing is a 1980s style home pregnancy test; this of course comes after Cameron's snarky message board comment about her getting saddled with two kids; if she is pregnant, whether she chooses to keep the baby or not, whether she is able to keep it or has a miscarriage, there is lots of fodder for future episodes in this development
- another great episode; I keep getting sucked in; I don't love everything about it; there is a scene where the gang at mutiny are playing a game in the house that is similar to the game that she wants to create for the network; the way that it is shot just didn't speak to me, although it was pretty clear what they were doing
- you couldn't pay me enough to stop watching this show

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