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

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.

nobody wanted to hear the bullshit response about why it was necessary he do it manually and use an audio cue

I saw the "I really love pot pies but only kind of like carrots" joke coming as soon as they were set down in front of him but it still made me lose my shit.

i was expecting an A/B test joke there

That COO douchebag and Richard meeting up and it seeming like a date where Richard was being aggressively courted by a seduction artist was some good staging

oh god, Radical Candor is an actual thing and has a book: https://thehustle.co/radical-candor/

i thought the COO was a celebrity VC making a special appearance for his first few lines. such otm casting

you've got to be very straightforward and honest, which is why I've told my current boss lies about Richard courting me

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tj-miller-arrested-allegedly-calling-a-fake-bomb-threat-1101316

more details on tj miller's shitty train excursion. sounds like he was drunk, got angry at a woman on the train, and then called 911 with her details but managed to do so in a way that they stopped and evacuated a completely different train

yah you know he thought to his drunk ass self "do not mess with me, i am a brilliant genius that you will regret fucking with" then proceeded to commit the ultimate self clowning of all time

Keep imagining Jian Yang making the bomb-threat call.

yah no this dude is an actual piece of shit irl

unreal this season also had a radical candor related plot

i wonder how the music licensing works -- does napalm death get paid for each instance of the song, or is it a blanket use? did they use all the money they saved on TJ Miller on Napalm Death?

underrated detail is that dinesh was using some sort of custom mechanical keyboard. very otm detail

that's the one nerd fetish object I somehow have no impulse to buy but wow do programmers love those

I'm sure y'all know but HBO gets paid to use that shit on their shows, since there are no ads. For some reason they were drinking Ace cider and kept calling it beer though.

Also there is this narrative now that TJ Miller has a neurological issue from an operation in his youth that affects his decision making process and now I'm supposed to feel bad for not liking him :(

that generally means that when you're capable of making good decisions, or make enough money you can hire someone to help you with plans, you make plans to mitigate the possibility of things like this happening

like making sure you're traveling with someone strong enough to slap the phone out of your hand when you call 911 falsely, or a buddy who makes sure you don't drink a shitload and act like an asshole

I guess my tolerance for rich people acting like assholes and doing things that'd get any normal person locked into a prison->poverty->repeat cycle is pretty low

Alvin otm - also very easy to use that as an excuse to be an asshole if he leaves it unchecked- doesn’t hire assistants

this episode was brilliant - lurching from the ridiculous to the sublime. literally no idea how good any given episode will be at this point. kind of exciting

damn. way to go to jail.

― scott seward, Tuesday, April 10, 2018 9:34 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao this was great scott

This season has been excellent so far. Happy that they didn't do a full episode about Bitcoin - seems a bit too obvious and Gilfoyle's alert was the only joke they needed

“I'd also like to tell you I have a Seppen bread machine and I've never been happier with an appliance.”

“What’s with you guys and ‘stallions’?”
“what’s with you and being a RAT FUCK?!?”

I'm sure y'all know but HBO gets paid to use that shit on their shows, since there are no ads. For some reason they were drinking Ace cider and kept calling it beer though.

The Tesla plotline in the first episode felt a bit like product placement. But very otm to give Gilfoyle an old Volvo.

I thought the Fage yogurt riffs in an earlier season were pretty funny, even though I know they were ads. this show is really good at using name brands for things without coming off as endorsing them.

v cool that you pay for hbo so there's no ads but then there's ads in the programming instead, thx home box office

They should drink beer labeled Beer.

tbf the real theater box office situation is just as bad

should i watch this season? last season was pretty poor and repetitive

I think this season has been great. Last night's, episode 4, was the weakest one of the bunch, but otherwise I think I've laughed harder this season already than I did the entirety of last season. Jared is killing this season.

it's an improvement over last season but I truly hope they kill Richard by the end of this thing

gay dating site on the... chinese new internet? sure, why not

Michael - this season is much better, it’s just a funny comforting serialized show now

Yeah, the latest ep was a bit less funny but so far, and to my surprise considering the previous season, this is very good !
That said, I don't really like the evolution of Jian Yang into some evil guy against them (although the copying of US apps was fun).
The being christian as being gay issue was nice (but Richard initial fuck up for no reason reminded the worst moments of this show)

This show is still so funny

I liked the last episode. The second episode was the laugh vacuum for me. The third episode was one of the best episodes ever, maybe

yeah that third episode won't leave my head... show is best when it does social comedy over tech comedy

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