On the other hand, Season 2 found the show's heart. After Cardiff Electric was sold, the narrative jumped more than a year into the future to focus on Mutiny, a video games-turned-chatroom startup run by Cameron and Donna. Focusing on the chemistry between those two incredible characters—instead of Gordon (who in the first season was much more compelling as a stay-at-home dad dealing with his sense of worth after taking the buyout), or Joe (whose early series blowhard monologues sometimes sucked the air out of an episode and was better on the periphery trying to work his way up at an oil company)—the show was electric. By subverting the blustery and overdone trope of mysterious and difficult men striving to make something great, "Halt and Catch Fire" positioned itself as something better than just its elevator pitch: "Like 'Mad Men' but in the '80s and about computers!"