Finally some progress!!

Hey, maybe a little whining sometimes works, huh?

Bailey contacted me today and let me know that she finally saw an announcement for a Halt and Catch Fire Season 2 DVD release for August 9, 2016! This is great news since I was beginning to worry that there might never actually be one. 

Click here to read the full announcement

There does not seem to be a way to preorder at this time, but just knowing there will be a release at some point (even if it isn't until August) is progress, in my opinion. The information contained at that link is all we know at this point, no sign of a Blu Ray release at this time.

I was also excited to see a tweet today from the @HaltAMC account with a video attached which looked an awful lot like a promo for HCF Season 3! I know this was met with frustration for a lot of you who live outside the U.S. because the video is apparently only viewable within the U.S. This is certainly a bummer and I wish there was more I could do to help that. For those of you who can view it, though, click on the image below to access the video:

By the way, while I was super excited to see a Season 3 promo of any kind from AMC, the video only contains clips from Season 2. I assume all clips which tease the stories that will be continued in Season 3. In other words, no new Season 3 footage was included. 

However, I really do feel bad for those of you who weren't able to see it so, for your sake, I will attempt to list a bit of a play-by-play of what was included:

• First clip is Joe at the WestNet presentation saying "Humans..."
• ...cut to a clip of Cameron kissing Joe while Joe's line continues "...crave connection"
• Text saying "Before" and underneath a series of modern-day social media names like YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Google, etc flashes by quickly
• Donna saying "They've stolen all of our users..."
• Bosworth saying "They cloned the whole thing?!"
• Cameron yelling "This isn't happening!" and throwing a bottle against the wall
• Text flashes saying "There Was Mutiny"
• Joe talking on the phone to Gordon saying "I'm talking about you and me partnering again"
• Gordon also on the phone with Joe saying "I'm going to work for Mutiny"
• Joe slamming the phone down.
• Cameron saying "This is going to keep happening, we'll never be in the driver's seat..."
• Bosworth on the airplane saying "Guess it's time to move out to the Left Coast!" followed by the coders on the plane cheering.
• Gordon yelling at Donna, "I had an affair!"
• Cameron telling Joe, "Part of me doesn't want you to go away..."
• Donna talking to Jesse, "Holding hands with Joe MacMillan..."
• ...cut to Joe looking into the camera from the last scene of Season 2 as Donna's voice continues over: "...never ends well."
• Ends with promo picture of Joe, Cameron, Donna and Gordon with the show logo. Voice over says, "Halt and Catch Fire returns this Summer only on AMC"

For those of you who aren't able to watch the video, I hope that helps. :)

So, over a week ago I blogged about how little we had been hearing about HCF from AMC. I listed complaints such as no DVD/Blu Ray release and no promotion of any kind yet for the upcoming season.

Since that blog went up, AMC has requested Halt and Catch Fire fanart to post on their site, which ultimately should help promote the show. It also showed an effort by AMC to engage the fans. We now have a release date for DVDs and AMC finally released a short promo advertising Season 3.

Is the moral of the story that whining gets results? ;-)

Who knows? Maybe next we'll get a premiere date!

In any case, I am pleased to see these developments. I think this is definitely progress. 

Of course it's still not quite enough and we continue to hope for more. We will post again if we learn of any other new developments!

-- Rachel