Matt Bellamy here. AMC has made available the first episode in their latest original series, ' Halt and Catch Fire ', ahead of its June 1st premiere date, and I have seen it! How does it stack up against other AMC greats such as Mad Men , Breaking Bad , and The Killing? Let's find out. 'Halt and Catch Fire' tells a fictionalized, and dramatized story set in 1983 centred around a group of computer programmers attempting to reverse engineer an IBM computer. Why would anyone want to do such a thing? Well, aside from being quite illegal, it could also be potentially extremely beneficial in a number of ways--financially, and technologically.