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

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I took drama with Amanda Crew and she is a very good actress - this show really underdevelops her role though. I've mentioned that before though

I'm hoping SV will stick around long enough for the coming tech bubble collapse.

You're going to be waiting a long time

Convince me that the current situation is sustainable outside of the few megacorps that will obviously survive. I went through the 90s dot.com crash so I've got my biases, but geeze my dashboard sees red.

all the small ones constantly crash now, but they're not a major portion of the stock market

you guys spend a lot of time hating on some of the funniest shit in this show

hating on bighead??

i get not liking tj miller, i probably dislike him too, but his character is so essential to what makes this show hilarious. Even the little shit he does like clipping his hair back to eat ramen makes me lol

also, i think the constantly shifting plot is a huge strength of the show, it keeps it from falling into the formulas you guys claim it falls into. Like even if nothing changes that's unexpected because 'unexpected things happen that push them back to square one' is what is expected

Lest we forget, Gavin Belson is in American Gaucho

Psycho, that is

love Bighead, his jokes are the easy lay-ups we need

Skimmed a really long interview in ew with TJM last nite on my phone about his reasons for leaving, whether or not he is being honest it seems like a terrible move. he wants to put more work into a podcast (lol), his standup (the promo looks awful), being comic relief in action flicks, and animated features like Emoji movie

http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/02/t-j-miller-silicon-valley-exit-interview/amp/

Real life Silicon Valley more interesting than hbo Silicon Valley

let it be known I had not seen that article when I made the laurel & hardy comparison!

can't believe EW doesn't know how to spell "palapa"

Miller leaving for these seemingly dubious projects sounds like an erlich move actually !
That said I kinda agree with him that it's better to leave at the top and erlich could become irritating and limited.
I love this character but I alteady find him less fun and key this season.
So I guess thanks for all the great moments (yeah his hair clip and almost any tinny things he does are hilarious) and bye !

it seems like a terrible move. he wants to put more work into a podcast (lol), his standup (the promo looks awful), being comic relief in action flicks, and animated features like Emoji movie

i dunno can't go wrong under-estimating your public. the last 2 moves with probably make him lots of money and guarantee future $$$ jobs.

just saw episode 6, it was pretty weak (the guy listening to Live for a half a second was the funniest joke in the whole show) maybe he's jumping a sinking ship

Erlich character the only one who seems to recognize that just standing around and waiting for someone else to succeed is a stronger strategy than staring at numbers at a white board. Though even on that front, no one ever seems to work on this show. They just stare at the computer until they yell I've got it! And the next scene is them pitching. Which is actually kind of funny.

Would be funny if one by one the cast departs until there is no one left but Jared, who goes on a quest to find them and discovers, after a freak storm, that they have all been marooned on an island with no power or tech and then it turns out we're in a meta reboot of Gilligan's Island and the series becomes a story of a bunch of bickering dudes stuck on an island trying to use their brains but no computers to find a way off. Like, one episode a white board would wash up, and rather than make a boat they'd crunch numbers. And so on. Would watch (for a season).

watching Richard accidentally seduce the new investor in the latest episode was like.... really? you guys couldn't write anything better than this 30 year old sitcom c plot?

if he accidentally killed her, they could have brought back car-wash lawyer

There should be a poll between Ron LaFlamme and sexoffender/aminal nitrate/carwash guy.
I'm RLF all the way !

Love the closing song this week.

yeah that was great

Erlich mansplaining mansplaining.

I swear I've been to a doctor who used the same inappropriate joking style as the dude Richard goes to

yeah, the song was nice.
Erlich was barely in this episode (and kinda sad in most of his scenes : begging to be hired, hiding his ignorance re : bball). I suppose they prepare for his exit.
Again, I found the episode meh (I'm not sure it made me laugh once). maybe it's only me who doesn't connect with the show anymore...
I don't even know what piedpiper is atm ! has he given up on his new internet thing ? all he seem to do is sell his top 500 app.

The space saver app is his new internet thing, or rather it's the back door into it because he can't get the new internet working until enough people share the space using his app.

ah ok thanks, I didn't get that !
Oh I forgot another sad Erlich moment : when Jian Yang mocks him because he's fat and poor.

Saw him do standup last night, and I can report that in a small venue in Kilkenny, MCing a mixed bill on the last night of a festival and heading towards drunkenness, he was very entertaining. He reported to the crowd that he completely died on his arse on Saturday night, and asked some of the American comics what he should do. They told him that Irish audiences basically like it best when you tell them about themselves. So that's what he did. And given that he had only been in Ireland for a few days, he managed to come up with a pretty decent five minutes of material about his experiences in Ireland.

"Sometimes it's a Wheat Thin."

I thought this was a good episode.

it had a lot of gross out stuff that was a change in tone from recent episodes but overall felt like a return to form

This is all I've seen of TJ Miller's standup - not bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxD6S-nEL_I

I saw him live a few months ago and he was funny (and a little drunk). His wife doing karaoke as the opening act was, uh, less so. It's nice for them to go on tour together I guess. She sang this (no mention she was ripping off a viral video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_74N7KJmEj4

thought this last episode was, fwiw, boring

wow can't believe they almost do something huge but then it all falls through -- unbelievable!!!!!

I think Monica is the person I would like to see the most of rn, I like her a LOT and wish they'd develop her more. She seems like such an inexplicably kind and great person for someone in the VC/Silicon Valley world???

the latest ep was a bit better/funnier than the previous ones (it made me laugh a couple times).
but Erlich is more and more depressing...
Monica is unrealistically nice and honest indeed !

nah this episode was weaksauce, stevie d covers it well

oh sure, it is weak... but no less than the whole season so far...
and the "they almost do something huge but then it all falls through" is what the whole show is about !

My wife fell asleep during the episode. It's a bad sign when it takes two nights to make it through a 25 minute sitcom. I thought it had its moments but yeah, was a little boring, and while I liked all the nicknames for Haley Joel's character, reverting to the same ol' "so close, so far" model the show has stuck with for years was a little frustrating and forced. Which is, sure, how the show works, but it's getting a little silly on that front. And it's almost always Monica who swoops in as the voice of some sort of reason to say, yeah, you could sell and you would be rich, but ... Which is problematic, because for most people on the show, becoming rich seems to be the prime motivating factor. Even Richard, he's not so much a save the world idealist as a judgmental control freak with really immutable views (about spacing, about Haley Joel Osment, etc.), and he gets as excited about money as anyone. And none of them seem to face any hardships at all, for all their supposed lack of money, so the hunt for money doesn't work that well as a dramatic impetus.

Anyway. I thought "Veep" was pretty funny this week.

The one at gary's mom's house ?
yeah, that was pretty good (well, they all are). the gay dad especially !

Jonah was particularly funny in his meeting with the president. I love the running joke of no one comfortable leaving him alone with any woman.

as for SV, unless they find something new and exciting to do next season, I think this is basically over afaic.

ah, yeah. and Jonah's obsession with daylight "savings" time is so absurd !

everyone is otm i really dont care what happens in the story at all anymore cos it will be reverted in 5 mins

for a minute I thought this was the last Erlich episode and he was going to immolate himself in the palapa

my wife watches it with me now but didn't at the beginning so she was going back the other day and watching season 1 and I have to admit the characterization was a lot better then. Bighead wasn't a complete idiot and Jared wasn't a complete lunatic, they were both at least somewhat competent people with distinct personality quirks. and Gilfoyle and Dinesh had more to do than just be total dicks to each other every waking second.