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Ep. 85: 'The Andy Greenwald Podcast' With Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers

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The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.55.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

'Halt and Catch Fire' showrunners Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers join Andy Greenwald to discuss the show's brilliant third season and its bold play for the future. Note: This interview was conducted before 'Halt and Catch Fire' was renewed for a fourth and final season by AMC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello my name is Andy Greenwald, welcome to my podcast.

0:13.7

Today was an exciting one.

0:14.7

I finally got to talk to the creators and now showrunners of one of the best shows on

0:19.8

TV in 2016 and certainly one of the most underappreciated Halt and Catch Fire, which is on AMC

0:25.1

and just finished a pretty spectacular third season last night.

0:29.0

I was really excited to talk to you, these guys Christopher Cantwell and Christopher Rogers.

0:33.9

Because when they took over the show this year, I think they took it in places that I even

0:37.4

didn't expect it to go.

0:38.4

It was really a tremendous drama, but particularly because of their journey, I definitely liked

0:44.4

the first season but didn't love it and then felt like many critics fell completely in

0:48.4

love with the second season of the show and watching that evolution.

0:51.9

These guys are very young.

0:53.8

They created the show off of the spec script, which is something we talked about.

0:57.1

Seeing the evolution of them as writers has been part of the pleasure of watching the evolution

1:01.5

of the show itself.

1:03.5

So we got into all the manner of things.

1:05.4

If you have not seen the season three finale of Halt and Catch Fire, do yourself a favor,

1:10.0

go see it.

1:11.4

Then listen to this podcast because I talked to the Chris's about everything that happened

1:16.7

in last night's episode.

1:19.2

Some of those early developmental struggles that they had getting the show off the ground

1:23.1

and turning into the show they wanted to be.

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