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

i know we never could have, but if we had had david gregory and laurie bream on this show at the same time it would have been so, so great

I think it makes more sense, you can write off a character with a bad trajectory more easily than one that's integral to the plot. Dinesh ends up ditching, and Kumail is free to go make movies and other shows, maybe pop in for a cameo

his character could even be wildly successful after pied piper and it'd be him returning to rub salt in wounds

they've already set up a possibly lethal comeuppance for betraying hacker girlfriend.

Can we now agree that the show is missing TJ Miller?

Nah

Everyone else has become more assholish in his absence

need more bighead

I feel like T.J. Miller had charisma, or at least a belligerent forced version of it, and they could introduce that in a more insidious way down the road

A character in the new China supply/patent chain who is devilishly charismatic would be great

there is an entire archetype of the dude who thinks he is charismatic that other people eventually give up in the force of their unrelenting sales pitch that you give up and laugh along

Miller is that way, and, I think, the lead actor on the Deadpool movies
the idea that if you think you’re funny and are really aggressive about it, or attractive, people will just accept it eventually a

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

welp...

Yep spoke too soon. But surprisingly to me, they have played it mostly straight so far rather than gone the satire route

Yeah Dinesh is getting obnoxiously ridiculous this season, but I loved the joke where his employee calls her friend to say her boss bought her a car

he was reduce to custom rims, which is a decent car joke

it strikes me that elon musk is genuinely weirder and more craven than anyone on this show

peter thiel for real has blood transfusions from the young, paid for a lawyer to represent a wrestler in a sextape beef and a guy who falsely claims to have invented email against a media website, ended up speaking at the rnc, is a gay man who defended people yelling bigotry when he’s gay, and is an anti-immigrant immigrant. he also funded a real libertarian oil platform community startup

he’s so,far beyond Musk in stupid unbelievable shit to the point the shoe integrates things and no one thinks them plausible

Musk made money from a few ventures and now seems to have the same interests as my friend’s two year old who likes pretty ladies, Thomas the tank engine, and rockets

and, presumably, candy

they need a mcafee character. he could summon richard to his jungle lair.

"He has been extremely bullish about bitcoin, writing on Twitter in July 2017 that he predicted that the price of one bitcoin would jump to $500,000 within three years, and "If not, I will eat my own dick on national television"

lol I forgot candy

also, sorry. i'd drinks

also, I meant to type "show" but ended up pulling an ed sullivan

they need a mcafee character

isn't this Russ Hanneman?

i guess? kinda different though. russ is more like a wall street douche who got lucky. mcafee is more complicated than that.

i mean mcafee had the one big thing but he was also a tech/software lifer.

kind of, I think he's mostly been a figurehead or investor for all the stuff he's done since the 90s

his full-time career was being a batshit crazy synthetic drug aficionado in central america

Hmm, turns out it's only an 8-episode season, ending tonight.

pretty disappointing for a half hour show

?! I thought they crammed shitloads into this ep, and appreciated the twist on the usual circular arc of each season's plot

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/KnobbyRecentCorydorascatfish-size_restricted.gif

oh yeah, I meant that a season this short is a disappointment. not the particular episode, which I liked

I didn't look who wrote/directed the finale but it really was a deus ex machina where a plot and better characterization appeared from the heavens

Holden being broken to the point where all that is left of him is that which serves Richard

oh god

Berg wrote and directed

just looked and it's the first time he's done so since the S3 finale

really ?? that was already the final ?? damn it !
that last episode was, again, pretty good.
It's good to have Monica in the company and therefore more present (the awkward moment with Gilfoyle was nice !).
So that was a mostly great season. Too bad it was so short.
They managed to keep going without Erlich and make the show - maybe not funnier - but less cringey and annoying.
The only character I don't like now might be Jian Yang. Without Erlich he's a bit pointless.
Even Dinesh was a bit less insufferable in that last episode.
Richard was a great improvement during this season.
And Jared, of course, was magnificent (that moment in the gif was splendid!).

I liked some of the brutally efficient storytelling moves that worked as jokes in themselves, like the cut from the two co-workers making out at the party to two months later when their mini-relationship and clearly ended poorly (at least for her), and Jian Yang gambling away his entire fortune at once while on the phone.

they need a mcafee character

isn't this Russ Hanneman?

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he's supposed to be mark cuban.. at least his origin of 'I BROUGHT RADIO TO THE INTERNET'. obviously missing a basketball team.

surely this is the end of the series? Probably a good time to call it quits.

it got renewed

This was a pretty solid ending, I figured they did it as a hedge in case they were not renewed.

I kind of feel like the only way this series can credibly end is with Richard as one of the people he despises - a socially inept mega-rich mogul governed by deep-seated anxieties and hatreds

he could just die from electrocution when a shoddily grounded robot complies with his command to kiss his piss.

This episode essentially had him confronting his transformation into an asshole, then figuring out a way to use being an asshole to his advantage, at the expense of bigger assholes.

Lots of stuff in this episode, especially involving Monica, focused on the difference between friendship and a "strictly business" working relationship. She even confronts Richard early - "I'm not your friend!" - and then later there is her internal debate about whether Laurie and her are friends. In the end she decides to stick with someone she'd rather have as a friend, just as Richard realizes he prefers working with friends over being an all-business asshole. It's even built into the funny intro: they start with business, a generic champagne toast, but then it ends with them running off together to play Fortnight.

wedding bells definitely ringing for laurie and yao.

I mean, the chemistry!

that would've been a fine series ending. Definitely done that way to hedge, but I wish it was true. What could the next season bring? Will they or won't they with monica and richard?

we all know monica belongs with bighead

Feel like they need to do a "hugely successful" season where company ruins the world despite their best intentions

yes^

If you like this kind of thing...

And what a butt he was. If Erlich was the show’s primary asshole (an assholerly made perhaps more explicit in the wake of actor T.J. Miller’s exit), then Jian-Yang was his reliable butt plug. That is, if dick jokes work to rescue businesses in order to propel plot in Silicon Valley, Jian-Yang’s anality possessed a shorter narrative fuse, whose effect was to offer intermittent entertainment without ever threatening to take over the main plotline.

Not sure how having Jian-Yang portrayed as an IP-stealing gambling addict really fixed the problems with his character.

yeah, the show would feel very unfinished if it stopped there.
That last episode didn't even feel like a season final...
After all they went through, I think they need to reach the big company/GAFA level. and then totally fuck it up !

Ok I like the idea of them ruining things on a global scale.