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

yeah the mumbly, unassertive characters, the juxtapositions of race & class, the moronic blowhards - these are all staples of his ouevre

im sure it's been done before and i just can't remember, but building a sitcom around starting a business is a really good idea. there isn't even a romantic subplot! (though it feels as if one is around the corner).

they half-heartedly made some nods to one between Hendriks and Monica (who is such a nothing character blech) but yeah that's been mercifully absent. Was wondering how long it would take for the show to get around to the politics of women in the industry, which seems to be coming into focus this season w Monica's new boss and the new hire (who are both great)

lsjgleijrleisjlrie when Blaine is standing in front of the whiteboard

Read all of the SWOT board cards.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/15/silicon-valley-read-let-blaine-die-swot-board

"I've booby-trapped the house with corporate resources"

The market research guy who kept repeating everyone's names killed me.

that last episode was as good as it's been imo

eh felt more plot-heavy than joke-heavy to me. A lot of the Homicide! stuff was good

Double Asshole punchline was hilarious

and the SWOT death board

The way he delivered "when her arrangements became too baroque" is one of my favourite things in the show.

Three commas was lol

mclaren gift thankyou moment was hilar

& the three commas delete

ugh god i just want him to die at this point i think, he is so fucking horrible

special occasion cigarette punchline was so stupid & great

The character I want to die is Richard. So unfunny and annoying compared to every other character, and more inept to boot. Honestly think the show would be better without him.

Nah Richard is a great character and that guy is a good actor. he's twitchy, well-intentioned but naive but he's breaking out of his shell and making himself more assertive as the show goes on too. Loved the scene where he stood up to Russ.

Russ is a great character.

i'm realizing that i get anxious watching comedies where ppl get great things and constantly fuck them up and every episode is ppl trudging along and then someone's massive so-easily-preventable ineptitude and stupidity just fucks things up massively and then no one faces any consequences, they just kind of keep trudging along gughghghghgh

This season's been great so far, but that last episode...

I know it's television, and not to over-think the technical aspects--but that whole bit with the files getting deleted, ugh
that's not how an FTP works, and why didn't the porn company have any backups. The show as been pretty good up to this point about referencing technology, and that just reeked of some writers trying to force conflict.

Jin Yang is this eps MVP.

haha i was thinking the same thing. when the guy from the p0rn company was says the platter was spinning and he couldn't stop it, as if it is erasing as it's uploading??

i though the conceit of richard meeting the endframe guy at all (both times) was pretty contrived too, as a plot device

but yeah the file deletion was dumb

weakest ep of the season imo, the smoking thing was very hyuk hyuk hyuk and all the richard-tries-to-fix-it bits felt out of character

does anyone else think they are positioning things so that Pied Piper will somehow bail out Belson at Hooli (dunno what Belson would offer them that that he hasn't already - apart from dropping the lawsuit and a shitload of money/responsibility - Bighead will be involved somehow)

didn't Dan Lyons write last night's episode? from what I remember of his tenure at Valleywag I am not surprised it was kind of a flimsy mess

xpost ahem u mean Baghead

Just saw actual pied piper shirt on a techbro fyi

i was literally like yelling while watching this one bc they were forcing conflict so awkwardly for cringelaughs in a way they usually don't & it was just painful, like this show isn't curb and that's a good thing ffs

Jin Yang is this eps MVP.

the overwhelming disgust with which he says "taco bell" in an earlier episode if my favorite thing on tv this year.

hmm now that you mention it the cigarette thing was very Larry David/CYE

i'm all about the Aviato shirt xxxp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AjVY9gkFUc

Just saw actual pied piper shirt on a techbro fyi

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, June 3, 2015 12:10 PM

Snack-dick or current?

full snack-dick

I like your theory, Hooli does seem to be heading towards some sort of crisis.

Show is less great than the end of season 1/start of season 2 but it's still good.

this was definitely a disappointing episode. but otherwise i prefer s 2

I like your theory, Hooli does seem to be heading towards some sort of crisis.

I'm thinking something like Belson offers to drop the lawsuit/let them go free if they five him something that fixes Nucleus

yeah that seems likely

those board meetings are getting suuuuuper awkward

they have discovered industrial speed delete and i am the only stoned person to realize it

p crappy episode, I hate "courtroom dramas" of any variety. Only big laugh from me was at the end when Ehrlich made his desperation play about being the girlfriend

I don't hate "trial" episodes of shows that much but that wasn't a particularly interesting one.
cf. the same week's Veep which was one of the strongest ones yet and it was all the cast "on trial"

Worth it just for "Did you just say work will set us free?" and "He's the most cheerful person I've ever heard quote Adolf Hitler."

yeah the hitler quotes were funny

i hate richard

i loved the schrodinger's cat stuff

I don't hate Richard or Erlich, but Gilfoyle/Dinesh/Jared are far and away the MVPs this season.

Only big laugh from me was at the end when Ehrlich made his desperation play about being the girlfriend

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, June 10, 2015 1:26 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that was pretty solid.

the amyl nitrate line jared had was pretty lol