https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1gFSENorEYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1uCYK6wnjk
had never heard of the wearable chair
― mizzell, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
this show is still funny, debut was solid. I was kinda surprised at how hard they go in on the big tech companies, it's like the characters all take it for granted that Facebook, Google, etc. are evil.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
Eheh the wearable chair dude was definitely annoying ! Some funny stuff in that first ep indeed.Also Jin Yang back from China. And big head back from wherever he was.Actually it seems a lot of things have happened since the previous season.
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
ooh is this back?
― kinder, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
Jared had a hell of a moment on this episode lol
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 4 November 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link
I laughed the hardest at:
Yes.... No
No.... Yes
― Οὖτις, Monday, 4 November 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
lol @ the "Foxhole" app
― mh, Monday, 4 November 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
Talking about the tree inside the house, and then revealing that it was in fact an all-glass house was pretty good
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 4 November 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
Enjoyed the first two but in the Ep3 preview, there was more Richard puking jfc enough already.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 4 November 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
this show is v funny but Richard's role as moral compass is weirdly unexplored/unexplained - like, why does he have a problem with all these things nobody else around him ever has a problem with
― Οὖτις, Monday, 4 November 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
Jared's the moral compass, Richard just wants things his own way
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 4 November 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
I don't think that's right. Richard clearly thinks the data-gathering-for-marketing thing is inherently wrong.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 4 November 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
I don't think it needs explanation? so many of the silicon valley types are amoral assholes that most of the regular working ppl just go along with it bcz that's the world they live in. Richard has m/l a normal person's moral compass, so when he falteringly brings attention to gross human rights violations, a handful of ppl close to him think "yeah that's true" and go along with his efforts to do better bcz a) they get briefly aspirational and b) Richard's whims are the smaller world that they live in.
Gilfoyle mostly just wants to code and either be left alone or be acknowledged to be superior. so if amoral monsters will leave him alone, he's happy, but if he has the chance to do something that fucks over amoral monsters while coding, he will take that chance.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 4 November 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link
Richard has m/l a normal person's moral compass
but... why, especially after all this time in the Valley?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 4 November 2019 23:14 (four years ago) link
I think he's just extremely single-minded and right now his vision just happens to align on the moral side of the argument. Also, it's a half hour comedy show that has never really been big on exploring character development.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 November 2019 23:33 (four years ago) link
he also isn't that moral. was going to take the evil chilean dude's money
― ت (jim in vancouver), Monday, 4 November 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
it’s a lot of money
― mh, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 00:55 (four years ago) link
I think Richard has ethics but not morals, as much as you could make distinctions. Or at least he has an ethic (tech libertarian, with ownership of personal data being prime)
― mh, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link
Otm, he may have one principle. He's not a good person, he's just disrupting Big Data.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link
also the idea that projects should be able to succeed in their purest form: no box, no data mining, just enabling
― mh, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link
For a final season of seven episodes (from what I understand), the creators seem to not be very bothered with moving the plot forward. Episode four was much like episode two in this regard.
― naus, Monday, 18 November 2019 06:47 (four years ago) link
lol who cares about the plot? show is basically a comedy of manners, just a series of setups for the characters to get into uncomfortable situations
― Οὖτις, Monday, 18 November 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
otm
― mh, Monday, 18 November 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
the creators seem to not be very bothered with moving the plot forward
here's an idea for a plot they could try: Pied Piper starts a new enterprise, and it's going really well but then a competitor sabotages them & they could lose it all! but they do something clever and save the company, ending up with a different business model
― insecurity bear (sic), Monday, 18 November 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
they're gonna have to step it up if there's only three episodes left, but episode four was clearly setting up a lot of dominos
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 18 November 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link
no one truly fails in SV, they only fall face first into opportunity
― mh, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
I'm looking forward to RussFest
― mh, Monday, 25 November 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
was dying @ his jacket that was two other jackets cut in half and sewn together
― Οὖτις, Monday, 25 November 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
That was one of the funniest ones in a long time
https://www.russfest.net/
― groovypanda, Thursday, 28 November 2019 08:03 (four years ago) link
I would watch this show just for Jared. even his fake laugh at Richard's attempts at jokes.
― kinder, Thursday, 28 November 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
The playlist!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 28 November 2019 14:24 (four years ago) link
"Bitchard" on both Jin Yang's and Monica's phones was good.
― sous les paves, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
they managed to make Russ likable and Richard detestable
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
Richard has been unlikable or worse for several seasons now
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
Richard's relatable when he's trying to accomplish a great thing, or takes on an ethical stance that's relatable, but as a person... he's Bitchard and always has been. He's just been juxtaposed with worse people in most conflicts!
― mh, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
it wasn't the best payoff but i'm glad they did pay off bighead's simon obsession
― na (NA), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
I kinda got whiplash from him turning down a billion dollars from the evil Chilean guy and then being relatively untroubled by Russ blackmailing the California DA on his behalf
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
funniest scene this season is still jared meeting his birth parents
― na (NA), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
this season has plenty of laughs so I'm not really complaining, a whole season at Russfest would have been great
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
Yeah if anything I wish they had gone further with Russfest; I thought they'd end up taking it further in the Fyre Festival direction. The commercial for it in the previous episode was maybe my favorite moment this season. Show is still pretty funny but I'm ready for it to end
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
― na (NA), Wednesday, December 4, 2019 10:25 AM (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
found this part way too over the top myself
― Evan, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
Nah, Jared's backstory has always been super over the top and dark, so I thought it worked.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
Yeah but I could imagine the writer's room where they go back and forth adding more and more layers of sadness/darkness to the situation and it just got a bit TOO silly imo.
― Evan, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
lol I don't even remember this happening at all
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
neither do they
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
I did like the battle of wills between the two secretly hard-as-nails assistants, seems like they could have milked that a lot more
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
lots of good stuff not getting to breathe due to needing to wrap everything up I suppose
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
the exchange where Holden is like "the position has been filled!" and Jared is like "no, it hasn't" was priceless though
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
See I would have preferred them playing with that rather than a random detour into a relentlessly sadistic Jared parents meeting scene
― Evan, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
man that was a pretty scorched earth ending - even the best intentioned tech company is better off committing suicide!
― Οὖτις, Monday, 9 December 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link