Ep. 85: 'The Andy Greenwald Podcast' With Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers
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🗓️ 12 October 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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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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