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

Pretty impressive that they really did make Erlich inessential to making the show work.

Yup, they got rid of him pretty easily.
I can't think of another TV show that managed that well to keep going without its most famous/favourite character.

The show is still going, and still pretty funny, but I miss Erlich. He was the funniest guy on the show.

famous/favourite character

was he really a fan favorite ? his character was more annoying than funny imo

I get the impression that Miller thought he was playing the funniest/standout character and acted accordingly on set. It's really easy as a viewer to buy into that, but I thought he was more outsized than funny.

American audiences tend to think the loudest guy is the funniest, though

He definitely had some good lines, sometimes the best line, but mostly was the most annoying. I think american audiences may think the loudest is the funniest, but seems like fans of this show tend to lean towards the likes of Jared or Gilfoyle.

Martin Starr is a gem, for sure

I miss the Peter Gregory character more than any other that's no longer there, if we're missing characters

I love Jared, and yeah, maybe he's had the best lines, but Erlich (and TJ Miller, despite his faults) is hilarious.

I wish he was still there, just... a bit less of him

i loved that al gore line and that's totally a line they would have given erlich but now they can just spread those kinds of lines around to other people. still funny!

I'm pretty disappointed with Dinesh's development. Early on he used to have some balls and I think Kumail is honestly better at playing a sharp and witty shit talker in general than he is at playing a relentlessly pathetic loser. Dinesh at this point is basically channeling a shy awkward 14 year old grasping for validation (which makes it too easy for Gilfoyle to stomp all over him), but it was much funnier when he could actually throw punches and made for a better rivalry with Gilfoyle overall.

honestly think that gavin belson is probably the pound-for-pound funniest character. i still crack up thinking about that bulldog bit

i think their solution to losing the richard/erlich yin-yang has been to make richard a bit more asshole-ish, and therefore assertive. and that's a welcome change.

The best he can hope for is a moment where he gets to say "Wait Gilfoyle, are you seriously [points out vulnerability]?!" Otherwise he is exceedingly pathetic.

Also feel like they're both not really feeling the Tesla/parking spot bit as actors. I'm more aware they're reading lines at each other than usual.

xp to self.

i love that they kept calling richard dick.

i want richard to slowly turn into gavin.

and gavin is totally a star on this show. he's almost too perfect.

Yeah, making Richard a more completely unsympathetic asshole is a brave development and I'm a fan of that.

chekov's gun is in play, he'll shit himself by the end of the season

“I’ll pay too. Fuck you Eric”

i'm already eagerly anticipating jian-yang's presence at board meetings with his 10% of pied piper.

chekov's gun is in play, he'll shit himself by the end of the season

Chekov's bum.


Yup, they got rid of him pretty easily.
I can't think of another TV show that managed that well to keep going without its most famous/favourite character.

Blake's 7 ran for two years after Blake disappeared

Valerie ran for four years after Valerie died

The Avengers ran for 8 years after Dr David Keel left

sanford left sanford and son. but then i think he came back.

^ looked this up: he was on for 59 episodes, "went to St Louis" for six episodes, was back for another 75 episodes

cindy williams left laverne & shirley during its eighth season
ron howard left happy days after season seven
suzanne somers is probably also relevant here

there are a lot of shows that soldiered on without their “most famous” character is what i’m saying

the progressive lobotomization of christmas snow was one of the sadder moments in the 20th century.

jiggle tv: the dark side

a smart and savvy young woman reduced to a pre-verbal state. a cruel trick to play on an actor.

the hogan family

little did we know that miller was our valerie harper, and now we're waiting to see who is sandy duncan

Doctor Who has just barely struggled on for 700+ episodes since the guy that played Dr Who was fired

(he'd missed 9 of the first 133 episodes already)

this show is already better without that scumbag tj miller

scottish tv cop show taggart ran for a whopping 16 years after the guy who played its title character died, which i think is some kinda record

did people on the show occasionally ask "what happened to Taggart, anyway?" only to be ignored

McManus died in 1994, in the middle of filming an episode. His absence was explained by the claim that Taggart was in constant meetings with the Chief Constable.

beautiful

now that’s how you write around a problem

this new episode was really, really weak

nice napalm death ref

working or hardly working also a throwback to Office Space

well that's one of those shitty things you say to co-workers since the dawn of time.

Yeah true it’s just a cliche

nice napalm death ref

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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/t-miller-busted-calling-fake-bomb-threat-train-article-1.3925895

damn. way to go to jail.

I may have been just really in the mood for comedy, but I really enjoyed this week's episode

Richard courting the COO guy and thinking Jared was on the wrong track only to find out he was completely wrong about reading people was a good setup. "he's had a head cold the last couple weeks and has been really low energy" was lol

So weird to see Tina in the flesh.

the napalm death thing was great and got funnier as the episode wore on

though annoying to imagine richard wouldn't just unplug the speakers...

i told you this show would be better without miller!

I kept thinking Gilfoyle is surely smart enough to have the "stop mining" command sent to his home system automatically, rather than play the clip that he has to respond to manually. I guess I overthink comedy.

it's possible he's doing it to intentionally annoy his coworkers

I considered that too, and that's probably the reason. But I was thinking Richard or Dinesh would have pointed that out to him.