Mike Judge's "Silicon Valley" (HBO Show)

"Technolojesus!"

First episode got off to a slow start but two and three are A+++.

It's less mean than I expected.

kinda feels like mike judge could/should be in the prime of his career right now... but this show is really bad. and the movie 'extract' was easily one of the worst movies i've ever seen.

no way it's hilar

i feel like it's prtty mean!

extract was garbage but this show is kinda gentle and funny and likable but also mean and martin starr owns. i like that they are willing to go for the dumb shit like homeboy eating all the shrooms.

clay tarver from chavez is involved in this somehow too

I've only watched like 1.5 episodes of this and thought it was kinda weak. I really don't like the main character and the incubator guy at all, not funny or compelling. A lot of the material seems obvious to me. Nanjiani and Starr kind of save the show from being a complete waste of time.

I could see it getting better.

homeboy eating all the shrooms

See also: Soshonna eating all the shrooms; Turtle eating all the shrooms. Did Charlotte ever eat all the shrooms?

she fuckin should have

More Nanjiani/Starr, more Christopher Evan Welch (he's so great in this show), less everyone else.

feel like it really hit its stride with the 3rd ep, and a lot of Mike Judge's usual tropes/angles are popping up - the aggressive juxtaposition of race/class, drug-related hijinks, etc.

This sounds like maybe the best thing ever

why is the guy front and center on the poster not Ben Chaplin when he looks exactly like Ben Chaplin (15 years ago)

See also: Soshonna eating all the shrooms; Turtle eating all the shrooms. Did Charlotte ever eat all the shrooms?

yes the dumb shit

more Christopher Evan Welch

that might be challenging

This show is really funny. Everyone OTM about it hitting its stride in episode 3.

Martin Starr as a "La Veyan Satanist with theistic tendencies" A+

i know some guys who've made it pretty well on mobile programming and this show is really resonating. it's not the best thing ever, but it's solid and worth a watch

I've only seen the first ep so far, but it seems like this is the sort of show that is so OTM it might resonate most with those closest to its subject/subjects, which is a pretty small, rarefied group, in the end. Everyone knows what it's like to sit on a couch and watch MTV. Everyone knows what it's like to work in an office. Or at the least, everyone knows someone like the subjects of B&B or "Office Space." This one is a tad tougher, because the attention to detail jokes could be lost on folks (like, I dunno, me) unfamiliar with the world of programmers and VCs. Though I suppose "The Social Network" works as a tacit primer. It played the subject as tragedy; this one plays it as comedy.

i think this is... mostly good... but kind of ruined by the lead/main character, who needs to be at least remotely likeable or root-forable for the show to work.

asian kid getting scolded for leaving fish guts in the sink was....

I feel like the guy who plays Peter Gregory is by far the best thing about the show...and the actor died in the middle of shooting this season, so he's not going to be on it for very long.

haha as Hurting kinda pointed out already

ep 4 was a step back - really think this might have been funnier as Martin Starr + TJ Miller and the guy from Veep failing their way through a series of ridiculous startups?

why is the guy from veep on every show. i think he is on three shows right now?

I feel like the guy who plays Peter Gregory is by far the best thing about the show...and the actor died in the middle of shooting this season, so he's not going to be on it for very long.

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whoa, i didn't know that, and i agree that he is, or rather was, great. sad!!

puke shot was funny but yeah this episode wsa a little shapeless

leaned on the Jobs/Wozniak joke a few too many times now

more than any of the specific to Silicon Valley stuff, it feels like the best things about the show are the simple stuff about starting a business.

Ginsberg lawyer guitar solo was pretty funny

there's been a pretty consistent subthread throughout the show of Silicon Valley folks desperately wanting to be seen as/occupying the same social space as rock stars

i love the little touches in this show such as the picture of Lenna on richard's wall

ha yeah ginsberg was good. he's a charismatic actor.

feel like the actresses hired to be interested in party guests could have been a whole episode and not one throwaway joke, but maybe thats just me wishing this was party down

ginsberg dude seemed like a rebooted scott baio

joanie love s1ocki

loves

and tbh as much as i love martin starr i feel like his character is written like a less funny version of roman from party down

otm hey guys just swap sci fi for religion, hilarious

yeah Martin Starr feels very underused in this, i can't think of more than one really good line he's had. even T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani aren't really being used to their full potential really.

they're doing a good job of not letting TJ overwhelm things imo. but yeah, too many characters overall for them to get decent showcasing

Love the Tobacco music

The cigar-playing is exquisite

they picked a hell of a week to reference david choe

http://guardianlv.com/2014/04/facebook-artist-in-trouble-after-recent-podcast/

the silicon valley episode of veep did everything this show is trying to do 1000x better

You are probably right, but it is still good.

racism stuff in this was A+

like really racist?

really clumsy ep

feel like you guys are "judging" this television show.

Laurie's lines alluding to prison culture

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tj-miller-critiques-silicon-valley-finale-as-erlich-bachman-1261188

^^ echoes of kevin spacey's bizarre frank underwood response to his outing as a creep

Bighead as president of Stanford was too perfect

― Οὖτις, Monday, December 9, 2019 6:45 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

title icks

I though they called you Bighead because your name is Bighetti

I expected the big AI joke to be that it would take on the personality of Russ.

Late pass, but finally saw the series finale - way, way better than I anticipated it might be. I think that was the right approach and served the characters pretty well. OF COURSE Gilfoyle and Dinesh wouldn't stop working together and I lolled at the NSA response from Monica, even if I'm not sure I buy that particular career move for her character.

i liked the finale a lot, after being sick of the show for the final couple of seasons

hot dog/not hot dog is something I think about a lot

This guy from a hair replacement commercial had to be the inspiration for Russ' new hair, right?

https://i.imgur.com/vSSOlMf.jpg

i realized today that thomas middleditch is the nu-andy dick - the actor who makes up for always playing nerds on tv and in movies by being extremely horny in real life

polyamory dorks

what's he done now?

https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/silicon-valleys-thomas-middleditch-really-loves-swinging.html

so, you're saying this guy fucks

oh, that was already discussed (maybe itt) back when it came out. I'm quite happy to hear people talking about swinging and polyamory but the tidbit in the interview, that he dropped his need for a marriage that included swinging on his wife right after they got married, is pretty uncool seeming

Avenue 5 has Jared playing Jared in space (I barely made it through the first episode).

yeah given iannucci and the cast i'm legit shook by how bad the first ep was

i saw the trailer for that, and i was totally unclear on what it was supposed to be -- the Fifth Element plus politics, idk -- but I did note, "It's Jared! Space Jared!"

the Fifth Element plus politics, idk

it's Red Dwarf with a big cast

Ah I was wondering about that new show and was considering checking it out : so it's bad ?
As for the final season of SV, it was cool indeed. The final ep and "are we gonna fail at failing??" was fun and a nice way to end it.
I specially liked Gavin ending as a co-writer of soft porn books.
And Russfest was great indeed !

Avenue 5 is not BAD bad, it’s just resolutely nothingy. (Which makes it atrocious by Ianucci’s standards.)

(opinion may be revised down to properly full-on bad if the two twist revisions on the opening premise don’t resolve into a coherent new premise in ep 2)

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

I'm quite getting into Avenue 5.

is it actually getting funny? we saw the first ep and never watched another

we tried a second and gave up

It's finished now and was very hit & miss. A few good jokes scattered throughout but easily the worst Iannucci show I've seen by some margin.

i got through three episodes; it is shockingly bad imo

oh man it’s great. especially given the current moment. stick around for the airlock scene.

Yeah I wouldn't go as far as great but the second half is well worth watching.

What does the space show have to do with Silicon Valley? Isn't it related to Veep?

Anyway, we're finally almost done with the final season of SV, and it's been pretty satisfying/funny.

same creator

as Veep

Jared’s in Avenue 5 iirc?

and it is on HBO -hence the SV connection

same creator as veep
in the sunday 10 pm hour a la silicon valley
zach woods is in it (my favorite role tbh)

But this isn't the Veep thread?

pinning this on the "(HBO Show)"

considering SV has ended, it isn't a horrible breach of etiquette to talk about related shows on this thread?

I mean, go for it! It don't cost nothing. It's just that the only thing they have in common (besides network) is Zach Woods (who was also in Veep). So I was just confused, because the show is from the creator of Veep and stars a star of Veep and so on, and I wasn't sure if they were related in some other way.

Zach Woods worked with Iannucci before Silicon Valley, so the link is even more tenuous

we're discussing it here bc what we all agree is that it doesn't merit its own thread

I, too, would like to see the Avenue 5 talk taken elsewhere. I loved SV and Veep but will not likely watch this. Thanks for accommodating.

A thread for Armando Iannucci's VEEP

TS: Rye bread or Pumpernickel?

Hot Dog / Not Hot Dog

Thomas Middleditch and his wife broke up from all the swinging and he picked today to do the news dump https://t.co/SXS45Vzptn

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mollie..... hello

thomas middleditched