Halt and Catch Fire

Scoot McNairy, Lee Pace and Mackenzie Davis in Halt and Catch Fire

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AMC, Sunday, Aug. 3, 10 p.m.

In the season finale of Mad Men in the 1980s with Computers in Dallas, the team of craven salesman Joe (Lee Pace), bungling techie Gordon (Scoot McNairy), and punk-rock coder Cameron (Mackenzie Davis) are about to send their proto-laptop to the manufacturer. They have been at each other’s throats all season, so it will be a tense hour. With luck, Joe will create another bisexual subplot, making the weird romance between him and Cameron even more awkward and upending more Texas conservatism. If you haven’t started watching, catch up online; the intensity and close observation of gender and power are fascinating.

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