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Chris Rogers \u201905 is co-creator of the critically acclaimed TV series Halt and Catch Fire.. In April, the show\u2019s fourth season was nominated for a Peabody Award.
Photo by James Minchin\/AMC.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Edie Gross<\/p>\n

Chris Rogers \u201905<\/b> and his writing partner, Christopher Cantwell, had already pitched their TV show to HBO and Showtime. In each case, an executive had politely offered them bottled water and listened to their spiel before ushering them out with a handshake and a halfhearted pledge to keep in touch.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the meeting at AMC felt decidedly different. For starters, they weren\u2019t perched on a couch in someone\u2019s office, but rather ushered into a conference room. There, a team of executives gathered, each with a copy of the script Rogers and Cantwell had spent months fine-tuning. As the meeting ended, AMC asked the writers to return with a \u201cbible,\u201d an industry term for a document that establishes the characters, setting, and story arc for a fictional universe.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe kind of exchanged a glance: \u2018This is good, right?\u2019 \u201d recalled Rogers of that meeting in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quite good, in fact. The pair\u2019s creation, Halt and Catch Fire<\/i><\/a>, wrapped up a four-season run on AMC in October 2017 after earning a fiercely loyal following and rave reviews from the likes of Forbes<\/i>, The New York Times<\/i>, Rolling Stone<\/i>, and The A.V. Club<\/i> \u2013 all of which hailed the final season as some of the best television of 2017. It was nominated in April for a Peabody Award; the winner will be announced on May 19. The period drama is now streaming on Netflix, much to the delight of binge-watchers everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

The characters in the show are fictional, but the setting \u2013 the intensely competitive arena that gave rise to the personal computing industry \u2013 derives from \u201cgood old history research,\u201d said Rogers, who studied history at Mary Washington. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMore than anything, that major teaches you to process a lot of information and separate the important stuff from the not-so-important,\u201d Rogers said. He co-created the show after carefully researching the real-life efforts of tech-savvy mavericks in the 1980s to reverse engineer an IBM computer, thereby toppling the industry\u2019s undisputed leader. <\/span><\/p>\n

Halt and Catch Fire<\/i> fans don\u2019t need to be conversant in computers to enjoy the show, any more than viewers of AMC\u2019s Mad Men<\/i> had to understand the advertising industry. At its heart, the series is a tale of scrappy underdogs taking on the establishment while clashing with one another over creative differences. But the accuracy of the show\u2019s historical backdrop helps amplify the connection fans have to the characters and their fates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you find the story people think they know, that\u2019s when you hit dramatic pay dirt,\u201d Rogers said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rogers discusses a scene in season 3 with Kerry Bish\u00e9, who plays Donna Clark. Though he and Cantwell are executive producers, Rogers said they prefer to refer to themselves as showrunners, the people who have creative authority and management responsibility for a television program. Photo by Tina Rowden\/AMC. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Left: The Rogers family includes three UMW graduates \u2013 Chris, right; David \u201908, who studied studio art; and Abbie \u201913, who studied anthropology. Their parents, Jan and Chuck Rogers, said that at a Los Angeles preview of Halt<\/em>, they applauded every time their son\u2019s name appeared on the screen. They did the same, they said, while watching it in their own home. <\/div> <\/div>
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Variety<\/em> and Forbes<\/em> named Halt and Catch Fire<\/em> one of 2017\u2019s best TV shows. The New York Times\u2019<\/em> chief TV critic raved about its fourth season. Here Toby Huss, in cap, who plays John Bosworth, consults with Rogers during the filming of season 3. Photo by Tina Rowden\/AMC. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Lee Pace, who plays Joe MacMillan, reacts with Rogers after filming his final scene. Photo by Bob Mahoney\/AMC. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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At left: Chris Rogers \u201905 is co-creator of the critically acclaimed TV series Halt and Catch Fire<\/em>. Above: Executive producers Rogers and Christopher Cantwell, left, mix an episode of the AMC series. In April, the show\u2019s fourth season was nominated for a Peabody Award. Photo by James Minchin\/AMC. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Rogers grew up in Winchester, Virginia, and was always a fan of a good story, said his mother, Jan Rogers. He carried a book and a pocket dictionary everywhere he went. He wrote constantly, filling journals he stored beneath his bed. One summer, while he worked construction, he read only Russian novels.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not a normal 20-year-old activity,\u201d said his mother, a middle school math teacher.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jan Rogers said she was thrilled when her oldest child chose UMW, in part for its small professor-to-student ratio. His younger siblings, David Rogers \u201908<\/b> and Abbie Rogers \u201913<\/b>, followed suit. <\/span><\/p>\n

At UMW Rogers declared himself a philosophy major, until enrolling in Professor William B. Crawley\u2019s course on the American South. Rogers said he enjoyed interacting with his history professors as much as he did studying the subject matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI fell in love with the personalities as well as the classes. I felt like I found my people,\u201d Rogers said. The historical accounts he studied \u201cwere like the stories I loved from literature, but true, and so often about ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary situations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He lived in the apartments on Sunken Road; he joined crew and the debate team. Ten years later, he was back for reunion. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was one of those places where you really made your own experience,\u201d Rogers said of Mary Washington. \u201cSome days, I can\u2019t stand the fact that it ended.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

____________<\/p>\n

After graduation, Rogers considered going to law school but realized his heart wasn\u2019t in it. It was, instead, in writing \u2013 something he rediscovered at UMW in a class taught by the late poet Claudia Emerson. So he wrote a \u201clove letter\u201d to The Atlantic<\/i> magazine in Washington, D.C., which hired him as a writing and research assistant. He lived in Adams Morgan with what he called an \u201cinspiring community of people,\u201d slightly older professionals who challenged him to pursue his passion for writing in earnest. <\/span><\/p>\n

So Rogers packed a suitcase and, with $800 to his name, moved to Los Angeles. He crashed on the West Hollywood couch of a friend of a friend while attending night classes in screenwriting.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the making of me,\u201d Rogers recalled. \u201cGod bless the naivet\u00e9 of it. It was immediately a bad plan when I hit the ground, but going back would\u2019ve required so much swallowing of pride that I stuck it out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He supported himself through temp jobs, then \u201chustled\u201d his way into a post at LA Confidential<\/i> magazine, which led to a position at Architectural Digest<\/i>. When Cond\u00e9 Nast downsized the publication\u2019s West Coast offices, Rogers went to work for Disney, organizing and managing social media content.<\/span><\/p>\n

An early riser since his days as a cross country runner in high school, Rogers would get up at 5 a.m. and write each morning before heading to the office. \u201cWith screenwriting, like all writing, the only way to get better at it is to write a lot of sh–ty scripts. It would be years before anyone read me seriously,\u201d Rogers said.<\/span><\/p>\n

About a year into the job at Disney, he and boss Christopher Cantwell went out for a beer at a dive bar, where each revealed to the other his dream of becoming a screenwriter. Cantwell was primarily interested in movies, but Rogers, a huge fan of David Simon\u2019s The Wire<\/i>, said he felt TV had the best screenwriting he\u2019d seen. He and Cantwell agreed to collaborate on a TV script, and though their first project wasn\u2019t picked up, industry insiders encouraged them to try again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their second effort was Halt and Catch Fire<\/i>, which gets its name from an old computer command that essentially forced all of the machine\u2019s instructions to compete for superiority at once before causing a shutdown. After months of back and forth, AMC executives called to say they were picking up the show. Could Rogers
\nand Cantwell be in Atlanta in a week to scout filming locations?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really slow, and then it was really fast,\u201d said Rogers, who celebrated the news with Cantwell and friends at the same dive bar where they\u2019d forged their partnership. \u201cYou go through the looking glass quickly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time, Rogers knew little about all the logistics that go into filming a TV series, from building sets and securing locations to casting actors and choosing a soundtrack. He quickly learned that being a \u201cshowrunner\u201d is about listening to good advice and letting others contribute to the vision.<\/span><\/p>\n

The writers he and Cantwell worked with only strengthened the scripts, and the actors gave the characters more depth than they\u2019d had on paper, he said. It didn\u2019t hurt that AMC partnered with Gran Via Productions, founded by University of Virginia grad Mark Johnson, who had also worked on AMC\u2019s Breaking Bad<\/i> and its spinoff, Better Call Saul<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a collaborative medium,\u201d said Rogers, who named his production company Sic Semper Tyrannis after his love for Virginia. \u201cIn success, I think there\u2019s a lot of people who make me look good.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The show aired on June 1, 2014, two weeks after first streaming on AMC\u2019s Tumblr page, the first series to ever premiere on the social networking website. Before that, Rogers\u2019 parents, Jan and Chuck Rogers, attended the big-screen sneak preview in Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe turned to me and said, \u2018I got my goal I set with those guys back in Adams Morgan.\u2019 I\u2019m choked up thinking about it now,\u201d Jan Rogers said of her son. \u201cIt was surreal to be sitting in a movie theater. This is a mom thing \u2013 my husband and I would count how many times his name would appear on the screen. We\u2019d clap after every time, and we did that even in our own home when we watched the show.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Rogers views the first season as the most technical of the bunch, and critics seemed to agree. When AMC renewed the show for a second season, Rogers and Cantwell agreed to swing for the fences.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs much as the first season was about figuring out where we were going, we wrote the second season like it was our last \u2013 if we never get to do it again, this is the story we want to tell.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Critics noticed, including The New Yorker\u2019s<\/i> Emily Nussbaum, who called the second season \u201ca startling upgrade\u201d of the first. Seasons 3 and 4 were similarly well received, with the final season scoring a 100 percent among critics on the online review site Rotten Tomatoes<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Filming wrapped up about three weeks after Rogers\u2019 wife, Meghan, gave birth to their first child, Maureen. Rogers said he\u2019s enjoying spending more time with his wife and daughter while working on new projects from their home in Los Angeles\u2019 Silver Lake neighborhood. A movie about the history of ESPN, starring Steve Carell, is a solo project. And he and Cantwell are writing another show for AMC.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe likes good stories. He\u2019s read good stories, and that\u2019s what he wants to be known for: telling a good story,\u201d his mother said. \u201cHe\u2019s a very happy man. Chris got his thing. As a parent, that\u2019s the part that makes me the happiest.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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