History Trivia / HaltAndCatchFire

** The show was planned to be filmed in North Texas, averting CaliforniaDoubling at least for the first two seasons; however, AMC already had a presence in filming in Georgia for ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', and Georgia has more liberal tax breaks for film and TV production than Texas.

* PlayingGertrude: Kerry Bishé (born in 1984) is only 13 years older than Creator/KathrynNewton (born in 1997), who [[DawsonCasting portrays a teenaged Joanie]] in Season 4.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: One of the producers revealed that instead of Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill", the last scene with Joe was originally going to use Phil Collin's "Take Me Home" for the show's final song.

* AbsenteeActor: Subverted by [[spoiler: Gordon's death]] late in the final season, since Scoot [=McNairy=] still appears in every remaining episode through flashbacks and in-universe archival footage.

* FakeAmerican: Canadian Mackenzie Davis plays Texas native Cameron Howe.

* FakeAmerican: Canadian-born Mackenzie Davis plays Texas native Cameron Howe.

* TimeShiftedActor: Due to the TimeSkip at the end of Season 3, Haley and Joanie Clark each had three different actresses. In the pilot, real-life sisters Lillian Ellen and Maggie Elizabeth Jones portray Haley And Joanie, Alana Cavanaugh and Morgan Hinkleman portrayed Haley and Joanie as children respectively in the first 27 episodes while Susanna Skaggs and Kathryn Newton take up the roles as teenagers in the final 12 episodes of the series.

* AcclaimedFlop: The show performed strongly with critics, but a niche subject matter crossed with DarknessInducedAudienceApathy quickly sank the ratings lower than previous one-and-done AMC shows ''Series/{{Rubicon}}'' and ''Series/LowWinterSun''. However, unlike those two shows, ''Halt and Catch Fire'' received [[http://blogs.amctv.com/halt-and-catch-fire/2014/08/amc-renews-halt-and-catch-fire-for-second-season/ three]] [[http://www.amc.com/shows/halt-and-catch-fire/talk/2015/10/amc-renews-critically-acclaimed-halt-and-catch-fire-for-season-3 additional]] [[http://www.amc.com/shows/halt-and-catch-fire/talk/2016/10/halt-and-catch-fire-renewed-for-fourth-and-final-season seasons]].

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Creator/MackenzieDavis plays coding prodigy Cameron Howe, in real life Mackenzie revealed that she isn't good at typing.

* PlayingGertrude: Kerry Bishé (born in 1984) is only 13 years older than Creator/KathrynNewton (born in 1997), the latter of whom [[DawsonCasting portrays a teenaged Joanie]] in Season 4.
* RealLifeRelative: In the pilot Haley and Joanie Clark are played by sisters Lillian Ellen and Maggie Elizabeth Jones.

* {{Blooper}}: In the scene where Gordon and Joe decompile the IBM PC BIOS, Gordon demonstrates how his LED breadboard works; however, he states that the hex digit "B" is represented as "two on, one off, one on" [[note]]1101 in binary[[/note]], which is actually the hex digit "D". He then correctly states that the hex digit "E" is "three on, one off" [[note]]1110 in binary[[/note]]

* PlayingGertrude: Kerry Bishé (born in 1984) is only 13 years older than Kathryn Newton (born in 1997), the latter of whom [[DawsonCasting portrays a teenaged Joanie]] in Season 4.

** While the first two seasons were set in the Silicon Prairie of the UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex, the show is filmed in UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, Georgia. In particular, Atlanta's tallest skyscraper, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America_Plaza_%28Atlanta%29 Bank of America Plaza]], doubles as the headquarters for Westgroup Energy.

* TimeShiftedActor: Due to the TimeSkip at the end of Season 3, Haley and Joanie Clark each had three different actresses. In the pilot real-life sisters Lillian Ellen and Maggie Elizabeth Jones portray Haley And Joanie, Alana Cavanaugh and Morgan Hinkleman portrayed Haley and Joanie as children respectively in the first 27 episodes while Susanna Skaggs and Kathryn Newton take up the roles as teenagers in the final 12 episodes of the series.

* TimeShiftedActor: Due to the TimeSkip at the end of Season 3, Haley and Joanie Clark each had two different actresses. In the pilot real-life sisters Lillian Ellen and Maggie Elizabeth Jones portray Haley And Joanie, Alana Cavanaugh and Morgan Hinkleman portrayed Haley and Joanie as children respectively in the first 27 episodes while Susanna Skaggs and Kathryn Newton take up the roles as teenagers in the final 12 episodes of the series.

* RealLifeRelative: In season 4's "Who Needs A Guy?" Alana Cavanaugh's actual sister Farah plays the younger version of Haley as Alana outgrew the role.
* TimeShiftedActor: Due to the TimeSkip at the end of Season 3, Haley and Joanie Clark each had two different actresses. Alana Cavanaugh and Morgan Hinkleman portrayed Haley and Joanie as children respectively in the first 28 episodes while Susanna Skaggs and Kathryn Newton take up the roles as teenagers in the final 12 episodes of the series.

* PlayingAgainstType: In a [[http://www.amc.com/shows/halt-and-catch-fire/talk/2014/06/halt-and-catch-fire-qa-toby-huss-john-bosworth Q&A with Toby Huss]], he states that the most rewarding part of his role was "[not] playing a dipshit".

* AbsenteeActor: Subverted by [[spoiler: Gordon's death]] late in the final season, since Scoot McNairy still appears in every remaining episode through flashbacks and in-universe archival footage.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Joe [=MacMillan=] is a ManipulativeBastard and a borderline {{Sociopath}}. Creator/LeePace, however, is generally a friendly guy.

* AbsenteeActor: Subverted by [[spoiler: Gordon's death]] late in the final season, since [[spoiler: Scoot -McNairy-]] still appears in every remaining episode through flashbacks and in-universe archival footage.

* AbsenteeActor: Subverted by [[spoiler: Gordon's death]] late in the final season, since [[spoiler: Scoot McNairy]] still appears in every remaining episode through flashbacks and in-universe archival footage.

** Both Scoot [=McNairy=] and Kerry Bishé were portrayed as husband and wife in the 2012 film ''Film/{{Argo}}'', a PeriodPiece set during the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis 1979 Iran hostage crisis]].

* PlayingGertude: Kerry Bishé (born in 1984) is only 13 years older than Kathryn Newton (born in 1997), the latter of whom [[DawsonCasting portrays a teenaged Joanie]] in Season 4.

* RealLifeRelative: In season 4's "Who Needs A Man" Alana Cavanaugh's actual sister Farah plays the younger version of Haley as Alana outgrew the role.

* FridayNightDeathSlot: The fourth and final series aired on Saturday nights, though it was already announced that it would be the last.

* FridayNightDeathSlot: The fourth and final series airs on Saturday nights.

** In "Tonya and Nancy", Cameron asks Bosworth if he came from a line of [[Series/Carnivale trailer folk]]. He replies she's not far off.