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

quitting periscope would have outed his lie to the hacker he was dating in some way -- she'd find out he was now working with the dude he supposedly destroyed on purpose

― mh, Tuesday, May 23, 2017 10:48 AM

of course this also sets up her coming back to hack them right when they get their thing up and running

uh of course

I really hope she goes hard on them, every one of these fuckers deserve it

Like, Erlich/Jian Yang don't even seem to be in the same show as Richard now !

What television scholars call the Turtle/Johnny Drama B-Story.

any bets now that peter thiel has divested to go on a spiritual quest, jian yang will end up the primary funder, using hot dog money?

i like the yo-yo plot & also i think the jokes have been pretty consistently paced throughout the series—it's very big on 90s pre-Family Guy timing, where each lol is given space to breathe & feels funnier as a result, imo

I also think this show feels v relatable even if you have nothing to do w/ the tech world but are searching for creative purpose in a society that is constantly trying to 'disrupt' your grip on things

Veep is much tighter w/r/t its jokes and characters—before Jonah or literally anyone on the show says something im already laughing, and when the joke comes its funnier than you expect—but has less of that feeling of tapping into something personally relevant—like its a world we recognize from a distance

sometimes just seeing TJ Miller onscreen cracks me up, before he speaks. read an interview w Mike Judge where he said he started laughing after seeing his silhouette when he showed up for the audition

saw a promo for miller's stand-up and really, unless it was an artifact of commercials being very compressed, he could use that breathing space in his own shit

wonder if they coached him by telling him to assume every line deserves the weight and time that saying "aviato" did

laurie/lori is probably the best peripheral character in anything atm

this week's 'pause the episode to laugh for half a minute' was that 'you, me, ed chen, this' bit

also yes, this & veep are the two best current comedies (the trip also good)

they're doing new the trip?

ya in spain, only seen first ep but good as ever

i'd add brockmire to that list but yeah

yeah, veep is still glorious, season after season.
I think I could watch it several times and still get new jokes as almost each line is killer.

Erlich might be my favourite character hence the disappointment that he's a bit less present in the new season.
And Jared is almost reduced to a psycho ready to kill for Richard. It's a fun aspect but he was much more previously.
Also, the chemistry/fights between Dinesh and Gilfoyle is lacking imo.
anyway, there are still some great stuff and I still enjoy the show. I just hope it will get better in the season.

I thought the most recent episode of Veep, while still funny, was even more than usual mostly sexist/racist insults. Though it was all worth it for the final morning show line about investigating the "darker side of S'Mores."

In tangentially related news, Kumail Nanjiani gave a local commencement address. Heard a good interview with him on local public radio last week -- he has a movie he wrote/stars in coming out
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2017/05/22/comedian-kumail-nanjiani-offers-advice-grinnell-grads-takes-steve-king/336766001/

i think i meant resonant more than relatable upthread

Catastrophe is also very good

Catastrophe is FANTASTIC. I slept on a whole bunch of new shows. I watched Casual which I don't think is actually any good. Then we started to watch You're the Worst which is great, but still slept on Catastrophe. Now I think Catastrophe is one of the best shows around.

died @ garage-inside-a-bigger-garage and intro of blood boy

I wish they hadn't titled the episode "Blood Boy," kinda spoiled the joke. of course, I still laughed every time someone said it.

oh ya Catastrophe rules

Silicon Valley gets renewed. Season 5. It's happening. You heard it here first. Unless you heard it somewhere else. Then you read it here.

— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) May 25, 2017

yes veep and this make up the best hour of comedy right now imo

erlich out

noo

boo

eh

probably a good move

wrong

Yeah I don't see how that's a good thing for the show

gotta get that emoji movie money

what if jianyang creates AI erlich botman

yeah his roster of 'other projects' sounds depressing as hell

Mild lol at erlich botman

Yeah I don't see how that's a good thing for the show

yeah everyone else is so tightly wound. gonna absolutely wreck the dynamic.

I wouldn't call Guilfoyle "tightly wound"

Or Bighead either for that matter

If you want to see Martin Starr (Guilfoyle) play a different character, this not-bad movie is on Netflix:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_(film)

holy shit i just looked him up on wiki and apparently Gillfoyle was Bill Haverchuck from Freaks & Geeks?!?!

did you not recognize him?

haha i freaked out when i found that out too :)

it genuinely blows my mind that this isn't the first thing people think when they see him or even hear his name

Same

lol damn well know i see it duh

p sick of tj miller tbh

they can just find some other low-rent VC buffoon there's a million ppl that could play that part

I do hope they give him a spectacular death though

ok to be fair I only watched Freaks & Geeks once thru and it was 10+ years ago

though strangely enough I still have not stopped thinking of James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Jason Segel as "that guy from Freaks & Geeks"