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

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.

Next season takes place 100 years in the future, Terminator-style.

making a better version in China isn't intellectual property theft. that's only an accusation if he then tries to market it in the US imo

Whats the deal with all the smoking?

I thought that was weird too, since it's totally illegal in CA to smoke in an office and I literally never see anyone do it anywhere ever

but what do I know

chinese people like to smoke

neither Monica nor Gilfoyle is Chinese afaik

I am going to say it was for comedy purposes

Gilfoyle breaking the rules overnight and smoking is in character

most of the other smoking was in china and, yeah

monica's smoking is a long-running thread/joke in the series

thinking they upped the smoking this season b/c it's funny/incongruous to have a lot of smoking on a contemporary sitcom.

I've been watching The Leftovers so I barely notice it on this show.

not to mention The Americans

i keep watching this show but i don't know if i like it much any more. i like many of the side characters (jared and gavin especially) but the dinesh/gilfoyle shit has been old for like two seasons now and takes up so much of most episodes. this season didn't seem to have as many big laughs.

this looks interesting: http://deadline.com/2018/05/silicon-valley-clay-tarver-my-war-amazon-studios-1202393690/

i love martin starr but gilfoyle is such a flat character, in affect and in character arc. he has no vulnerability or weakness

you guys watch this show for the story line? they could keep doing this show forever. its about the hahas and yuk-em-ups.

also I WAS RIGHT:

this show will be way better without Miller

― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, May 30, 2017 12:28 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kurt otm

dgaf about character development or plotlines, really. I'm here for the satire.

xxp

Hard disagree. I mean, it's not bad now, but it's worse.

yeah i thought this season was just... ok.

that said i don't think it was because of tj miller's absence, i barely noticed. knowing his rep irl i'm glad he's gone.

this was the best season!

side step:

has the fact that there's a CRUISING movie poster in one of the bedrooms in their house been brought up? funny detail.

yeah i don't miss tj miller. and i INVENTED the whole "i don't care about plot, i just want to laugh" thing. i just haven't been laughing as much at this show.

if this show prioritized the laughs it would be the jared and his dead friend muriel show.

regardless of anything else, this was much, much better than the previous season

jared is so funny that this season didn't need much else in the way of humour

TJ Miller is a creep, but if you didn't think he was funny on Silicon Valley, I guess we just have different senses of humor.

Something about the lighting or editing or direction on the show makes everyone less funny than they are in other things.

"I don't want to sound selfish but sometimes i wish only I made money, you know".

Finale was good but wasn’t sure how to feel about Monica suddenly having depth and trolling the audience by acknowledging fit on some level how underwritten she was.
Glad that’s changing. I did drama with crew and she’s a sweetheart

have Dinesh die in a horrific Tesla accident, simultaneously killing off a character who has become insufferable while trolling Elon Musk.

replace with Monica in the gang, all problems solved.

make monica have double life as a theranos-like villain at night, while day monica, who is not aware that she is night monica even though night monica is monica in a blond wig and black turtleneck, can't believe what night monica gets away with.

Have a scene where Richard talking about his research into a new system he's developing and mentions "analysis" which causes Monica to freeze, revealing she was a host the whole time!

reveal: Monica is a Janet

Doesn't almost every season end with a "Cool, Monica is in charge / in the gang now!" moment, that proceeds to be ignored as soon as the new season starts?