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

otm

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

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

no one truly fails in SV, they only fall face first into opportunity

I'm looking forward to RussFest

was dying @ his jacket that was two other jackets cut in half and sewn together

That was one of the funniest ones in a long time

https://www.russfest.net/

I would watch this show just for Jared. even his fake laugh at Richard's attempts at jokes.

The playlist!

"Bitchard" on both Jin Yang's and Monica's phones was good.

they managed to make Russ likable and Richard detestable

Richard has been unlikable or worse for several seasons now

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!

it wasn't the best payoff but i'm glad they did pay off bighead's simon obsession

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

funniest scene this season is still jared meeting his birth parents

this season has plenty of laughs so I'm not really complaining, a whole season at Russfest would have been great

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

funniest scene this season is still jared meeting his birth parents

― na (NA), Wednesday, December 4, 2019 10:25 AM (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

found this part way too over the top myself

Nah, Jared's backstory has always been super over the top and dark, so I thought it worked.

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.

funniest scene this season is still jared meeting his birth parents

lol I don't even remember this happening at all

neither do they

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

lots of good stuff not getting to breathe due to needing to wrap everything up I suppose

the exchange where Holden is like "the position has been filled!" and Jared is like "no, it hasn't" was priceless though

See I would have preferred them playing with that rather than a random detour into a relentlessly sadistic Jared parents meeting scene

man that was a pretty scorched earth ending - even the best intentioned tech company is better off committing suicide!

yes, I am erlich bachman

Good way to end the show. It's always been about failure and it makes sense they have to fail in order to succeed this last time. I liked that they searched for Bachmann but never found him, as a way to acknowledge the character without acknowledging the piece of shit actor

Bighead as president of Stanford was too perfect

stamford

This was great.
I'll miss it.
Fuckin Gabe

that went out on a good note i thought.

Yeah I was really happy with this season and that was the best ending they could've done, I think.

shades of veep!

"..., WeWork, ..." Also Laurie in jail.

Great closer.

Laurie's lines alluding to prison culture

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tj-miller-critiques-silicon-valley-finale-as-erlich-bachman-1261188

^^ echoes of kevin spacey's bizarre frank underwood response to his outing as a creep

Bighead as president of Stanford was too perfect

― Οὖτις, Monday, December 9, 2019 6:45 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

title icks

I though they called you Bighead because your name is Bighetti

I expected the big AI joke to be that it would take on the personality of Russ.

Late pass, but finally saw the series finale - way, way better than I anticipated it might be. I think that was the right approach and served the characters pretty well. OF COURSE Gilfoyle and Dinesh wouldn't stop working together and I lolled at the NSA response from Monica, even if I'm not sure I buy that particular career move for her character.

i liked the finale a lot, after being sick of the show for the final couple of seasons

hot dog/not hot dog is something I think about a lot

This guy from a hair replacement commercial had to be the inspiration for Russ' new hair, right?

https://i.imgur.com/vSSOlMf.jpg

i realized today that thomas middleditch is the nu-andy dick - the actor who makes up for always playing nerds on tv and in movies by being extremely horny in real life

polyamory dorks

what's he done now?