Aleksa Palladino and Mark O’Brien join AMC’s Halt And Catch Fire

As reported by Variety, two new people will be joining AMC’s Mad Men-with-computers show Halt And Catch Fire when it returns for a second season later this year. The first is Boardwalk Empire’s Aleksa Palladino, who will be playing a “well-traveled and highly educated freelance journalist” named Sara Wheeler. There’s more to her than that, though, because Sara Wheeler happens to have one of the most elaborate character descriptions we’ve ever seen. In addition to being well-traveled and highly educated, she also “comes from a wealthy background.” That hasn’t stopped her from being “self-reliant and responsible,” but she has had some bad experiences that have made her “skeptical of relationships.” That’s until she reconnects with Lee Pace’s character, who she met in college and has a “real, deep connection” with.