is that the lindelof one? If so I will avoid like a plague
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 05:16 (ten years ago) link
Agree with both s1ocki and xelab, Veep did it so much better but this has got enough laughs to watch anyway. Racism stuff in last episode A1 especially when he asked the cop.
― Berk errs Gibbs/Ox (aldo), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 09:09 (ten years ago) link
i'm bailing on this show, it's no good― socki (s1ocki), Monday, May 5, 2014 8:46 PM
feel like the valleywag blog skewers this stuff better than any tv show could
― am0n, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
I don't love it tbh
Mr Veg bailed on it a couple of eps ago. His complaint was that most of the stuff they're lampooning is done in a silly or obvious way, there's no real meat on the bones to their parody.
I mostly like the stuff in the house anyway, esp Starr/Nanjiani
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
judge has never really run that deep or mean, so I think what has been successful in the past has been a real specificity and detail in his targets. this feels rather generic so far, as it's satirizing something that's already a caricature in the first pace.
maybe the real SV is really that silly though I have no idea!
― ryan, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
you need at least some charisma in the mix or you're watching a show about fumbling assholes doing stupid bullshit nobody cares about. see arrested development for an example of how this can actually work.
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
I think there's some charisma! it's fleeting though.
― ryan, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
maybe the real SV is really that silly
it is really this silly
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
― am0n, Tuesday, May 6, 2014 1:58 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
vw could be so much better except the outsiders perspective means that they actually don't know the tech they're describing well, and they end up skewering silly social things more often than actually derranged things, and on top of that stick to gossip about the same top targets instead of casting a broader eye around the landscape.
also occasionally it is not nearly caustic enough, and buys the idea that some stuff is actually sorta neat. (i mean, maybe some is, but it would be a better voice to never acknowledge it!)
i mean that said it still has occasional great coverage, but the bread and butter of vw is pretty tepid.
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Monday, 12 May 2014 04:48 (ten years ago) link
i would find it easier to step away from this show if it didn't provide at least one belly laugh per episode this one was dude slapping the kid and telling him he "brought piss to a shit fight"
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 12 May 2014 04:56 (ten years ago) link
best episode so far imo.
― ryan, Monday, 12 May 2014 05:11 (ten years ago) link
wait, you think valleywag is TOO credulous?
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 12 May 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
i actually thing vw suffers a bit from not having boots on the ground. i read a great piece about the silicon valley premiere and all the dumb shit tech people were saying about it on recode, really sort of hang-them-with-their-own-rope stuff, and i wished vw could do that sort of thing.
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 12 May 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
this was the dumbest episode so far
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 02:14 (ten years ago) link
it's enjoyable but I could stand about 100% more satire
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 05:11 (ten years ago) link
most exciting file download ever
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:48 (ten years ago) link
first legit funny ep i thought
― Mordy, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:49 (ten years ago) link
hopeful for next season now that this one is out of the way.
― ryan, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
I thought the hand job efficiency calculating was very funny!
― xelab, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:54 (ten years ago) link
yeah that was a really funny ep top to bottom
the calculation stuff was cracking me up
also Jared crowdsourcing his "pivot" ideas was hilarious
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
yeah that was definitely the best episode yet, though it made the tacked-on romance thing seem even more superfluous than before somehow
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link
I just found out today that Christopher Evan Welch died in the middle of the series.
― akm, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 23:34 (ten years ago) link
Woah
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 23:35 (ten years ago) link
yeah he'll be missed
idg what made this episode different from those that preceded it for you guys. seemed like more of the same to me (which is fine). Erlich consistently the funniest imo
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
It is another case of a relatively young 9/11 first responder succumbing to the asbestos exposure of that day, it seems like they are dropping like flies. I have had plenty of that shit myself but nothing compared to that day in one dose.
― xelab, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 23:54 (ten years ago) link
idk anything else that that eldrich guy is in but I recently saw a pretty great thing on youtube where he does a moth-like standup thing and tells a story about getting part of his brain removed
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 00:02 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kduZLSyCU6s
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 00:09 (ten years ago) link
tj miller is a weird funny motherfucker
his podcast is bizarre & funny if you're in the right mood for stonertalk
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 02:43 (ten years ago) link
I enjoyed the Kara Swisher cameo in the finale. Homegirl is pretty short!
Will Sam Biddle be in season tiddle
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
So good.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
hotswap dicks in and out
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 23:42 (ten years ago) link
the absolute commitment to the question on its own terms (populated by dick diagrams) and the lengths to which they took it really made the bit incredibly funny
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:00 (ten years ago) link
when they got to "hot swapping dicks" i was in love, i lold so hard
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:48 (ten years ago) link
Watched the first half of the season (eps 1-5) last night. So good.
― jaymc, Friday, 26 September 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
it gets better as it goes along imo
― Οὖτις, Friday, 26 September 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
Prob better here than the LOLZ thread: http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/04/silicon-valley-dick-joke-oral-history/
― schwantz, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link
4 more days!
― schwantz, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link
gonna miss my favorite character :(
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 22:50 (nine years ago) link
It's funny that consultant is anonymous despite his name being all over the internet associated with this joke.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 April 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/kumailsiliconvalleydickjoke22-thumb-550x309-113200.gif?w=650&h=365
― NotKnowPotato (stevie), Friday, 10 April 2015 08:55 (nine years ago) link
lol
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 April 2015 13:37 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/586678680576925696
― some stupid push back (some dude), Saturday, 11 April 2015 01:12 (nine years ago) link
loooool wtf
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 April 2015 02:24 (nine years ago) link
lol, kumail should be fucking with them hard about this
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 11 April 2015 03:13 (nine years ago) link
Patton Oswalt has the biggest grin right about now.
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Saturday, 11 April 2015 03:14 (nine years ago) link
ah well he took the high groundhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/silicon-valley-star-calls-salon-787889
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 11 April 2015 03:15 (nine years ago) link
ugh a lot of people I normally like are being stupid on twitter about this
worst part of the original flub was def the use of "in fact." ouuuch
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Saturday, 11 April 2015 06:24 (nine years ago) link
could not stop loling at the name "Stern Taylor"
http://i.imgur.com/FUhsvbS.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/74b1qQA.png
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
so this dealt with the peter gregory/christopher evan welch-sized elephant in the room really well - the bizarro monologue explaining his death was utterly hilarious
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
yeah i loved that
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 23:49 (nine years ago) link