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

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.

Starr was really funny this ep

I thank this show for the using the phrase "snack dick"

i'm bailing on this show, it's no good

i don't think it's very good either but gonna stick with it because it has a chance to improve around season 2 or 3.

:|

Silly COn Alley

disagree with s1ocki but am ok with him going his own way

as long as nanjiani is on the show i'll probably keep watching it

It's just okay but there's nothing more worthy right now, really.

Anyone know which service has Party Down streaming?

starz

what do ppl think about this new hbo rapture show? looks maybe fun

is that the lindelof one? If so I will avoid like a plague

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.

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

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

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!

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.

I think there's some charisma! it's fleeting though.

maybe the real SV is really that silly

it is really this silly

feel like the valleywag blog skewers this stuff better than any tv show could

― 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.

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"

best episode so far imo.

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!)

wait, you think valleywag is TOO credulous?

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.

this was the dumbest episode so far

it's enjoyable but I could stand about 100% more satire

most exciting file download ever

first legit funny ep i thought

hopeful for next season now that this one is out of the way.

I thought the hand job efficiency calculating was very funny!

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

yeah that was definitely the best episode yet, though it made the tacked-on romance thing seem even more superfluous than before somehow

I just found out today that Christopher Evan Welch died in the middle of the series.

Woah

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

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

— Molly Lambert 🦔 (@mollylambert) May 31, 2020

mollie..... hello

thomas middleditched

realizing that the interns we had at work thought of Silicon Valley as their generation’s Office Space, a send-up of the world they’d be entering but was as truthful as satirical, I started a rewatch

some parts held up less well, but it’s amazing how the entire world became parts of the show

Bighead remains my all-time favorite. be like him

Jimmy O Yang was my fave.

he really breaks out once they give him more material, for sure

The algorithm served me a picture of Bill and Hillary Clinton in 1972 at Yale … the resemblance between Bill Clinton c1972 and TJ Miller is striking imo

Finally got to see Alexi Wasser's Messy and it took me a minute to recognize Thomas Middleditch as one of her paramours, complete with rattail (also has Adam Greenberg, Ione Skye, Mario Cantone and Michael Panes, not bad for a $100k budget).

Oddly enough, Matt Ross (who plays Gavin Belson) directed the new Michael Shannon / Nick Offerman miniseries Death by Lightning.