6. HALT AND CATCH FIRE

The period piece, which spanned a total of 10 years, took its biggest leap yet in its fourth (and best) season, which catapulted the show ahead a full three years in order to navigate the mid-‘90s rise of the World Wide Web. The final episodes were as much (if not more so) about the lasting connections that Joe, Cameron, Gordon and Donna had built as they were about their pursuit of technological greatness. The season culminated in a beautiful finale which found Joe, our onetime antihero, starting over as a more fulfilled human being, and Cameron and Donna on the cusp of restoring their partnership in the wake of Gordon’s tragic (yet beautiful) demise. (We still get goosebumps just thinking about the moment where Donna approached Cameron outside the diner and said “I have an idea.”)

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