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

i know some guys who've made it pretty well on mobile programming and this show is really resonating. it's not the best thing ever, but it's solid and worth a watch

I've only seen the first ep so far, but it seems like this is the sort of show that is so OTM it might resonate most with those closest to its subject/subjects, which is a pretty small, rarefied group, in the end. Everyone knows what it's like to sit on a couch and watch MTV. Everyone knows what it's like to work in an office. Or at the least, everyone knows someone like the subjects of B&B or "Office Space." This one is a tad tougher, because the attention to detail jokes could be lost on folks (like, I dunno, me) unfamiliar with the world of programmers and VCs. Though I suppose "The Social Network" works as a tacit primer. It played the subject as tragedy; this one plays it as comedy.

i think this is... mostly good... but kind of ruined by the lead/main character, who needs to be at least remotely likeable or root-forable for the show to work.

asian kid getting scolded for leaving fish guts in the sink was....

I feel like the guy who plays Peter Gregory is by far the best thing about the show...and the actor died in the middle of shooting this season, so he's not going to be on it for very long.

haha as Hurting kinda pointed out already

ep 4 was a step back - really think this might have been funnier as Martin Starr + TJ Miller and the guy from Veep failing their way through a series of ridiculous startups?

why is the guy from veep on every show. i think he is on three shows right now?

I feel like the guy who plays Peter Gregory is by far the best thing about the show...and the actor died in the middle of shooting this season, so he's not going to be on it for very long.

― some dude, Monday, April 28, 2014 11:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa, i didn't know that, and i agree that he is, or rather was, great. sad!!

puke shot was funny but yeah this episode wsa a little shapeless

leaned on the Jobs/Wozniak joke a few too many times now

more than any of the specific to Silicon Valley stuff, it feels like the best things about the show are the simple stuff about starting a business.

Ginsberg lawyer guitar solo was pretty funny

there's been a pretty consistent subthread throughout the show of Silicon Valley folks desperately wanting to be seen as/occupying the same social space as rock stars

i love the little touches in this show such as the picture of Lenna on richard's wall

ha yeah ginsberg was good. he's a charismatic actor.

feel like the actresses hired to be interested in party guests could have been a whole episode and not one throwaway joke, but maybe thats just me wishing this was party down

ginsberg dude seemed like a rebooted scott baio

joanie love s1ocki

loves

and tbh as much as i love martin starr i feel like his character is written like a less funny version of roman from party down

otm hey guys just swap sci fi for religion, hilarious

yeah Martin Starr feels very underused in this, i can't think of more than one really good line he's had. even T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani aren't really being used to their full potential really.

they're doing a good job of not letting TJ overwhelm things imo. but yeah, too many characters overall for them to get decent showcasing

Love the Tobacco music

The cigar-playing is exquisite

they picked a hell of a week to reference david choe

http://guardianlv.com/2014/04/facebook-artist-in-trouble-after-recent-podcast/

the silicon valley episode of veep did everything this show is trying to do 1000x better

You are probably right, but it is still good.

racism stuff in this was A+

like really racist?

really clumsy ep

feel like you guys are "judging" this television show.

Starr was really funny this ep

I thank this show for the using the phrase "snack dick"

i'm bailing on this show, it's no good

i don't think it's very good either but gonna stick with it because it has a chance to improve around season 2 or 3.

:|

Silly COn Alley

disagree with s1ocki but am ok with him going his own way

as long as nanjiani is on the show i'll probably keep watching it

It's just okay but there's nothing more worthy right now, really.

Anyone know which service has Party Down streaming?

starz

what do ppl think about this new hbo rapture show? looks maybe fun

is that the lindelof one? If so I will avoid like a plague

Agree with both s1ocki and xelab, Veep did it so much better but this has got enough laughs to watch anyway. Racism stuff in last episode A1 especially when he asked the cop.

i'm bailing on this show, it's no good
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, May 5, 2014 8:46 PM

feel like the valleywag blog skewers this stuff better than any tv show could

I don't love it tbh

Mr Veg bailed on it a couple of eps ago. His complaint was that most of the stuff they're lampooning is done in a silly or obvious way, there's no real meat on the bones to their parody.

I mostly like the stuff in the house anyway, esp Starr/Nanjiani

judge has never really run that deep or mean, so I think what has been successful in the past has been a real specificity and detail in his targets. this feels rather generic so far, as it's satirizing something that's already a caricature in the first pace.

maybe the real SV is really that silly though I have no idea!

you need at least some charisma in the mix or you're watching a show about fumbling assholes doing stupid bullshit nobody cares about. see arrested development for an example of how this can actually work.

yeah given iannucci and the cast i'm legit shook by how bad the first ep was

i saw the trailer for that, and i was totally unclear on what it was supposed to be -- the Fifth Element plus politics, idk -- but I did note, "It's Jared! Space Jared!"

the Fifth Element plus politics, idk

it's Red Dwarf with a big cast

Ah I was wondering about that new show and was considering checking it out : so it's bad ?
As for the final season of SV, it was cool indeed. The final ep and "are we gonna fail at failing??" was fun and a nice way to end it.
I specially liked Gavin ending as a co-writer of soft porn books.
And Russfest was great indeed !

Avenue 5 is not BAD bad, it’s just resolutely nothingy. (Which makes it atrocious by Ianucci’s standards.)

(opinion may be revised down to properly full-on bad if the two twist revisions on the opening premise don’t resolve into a coherent new premise in ep 2)

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I'm quite getting into Avenue 5.

is it actually getting funny? we saw the first ep and never watched another

we tried a second and gave up

It's finished now and was very hit & miss. A few good jokes scattered throughout but easily the worst Iannucci show I've seen by some margin.

i got through three episodes; it is shockingly bad imo

oh man it’s great. especially given the current moment. stick around for the airlock scene.

Yeah I wouldn't go as far as great but the second half is well worth watching.

What does the space show have to do with Silicon Valley? Isn't it related to Veep?

Anyway, we're finally almost done with the final season of SV, and it's been pretty satisfying/funny.

same creator

as Veep

Jared’s in Avenue 5 iirc?

and it is on HBO -hence the SV connection

same creator as veep
in the sunday 10 pm hour a la silicon valley
zach woods is in it (my favorite role tbh)

But this isn't the Veep thread?

pinning this on the "(HBO Show)"

considering SV has ended, it isn't a horrible breach of etiquette to talk about related shows on this thread?

I mean, go for it! It don't cost nothing. It's just that the only thing they have in common (besides network) is Zach Woods (who was also in Veep). So I was just confused, because the show is from the creator of Veep and stars a star of Veep and so on, and I wasn't sure if they were related in some other way.

Zach Woods worked with Iannucci before Silicon Valley, so the link is even more tenuous

we're discussing it here bc what we all agree is that it doesn't merit its own thread

I, too, would like to see the Avenue 5 talk taken elsewhere. I loved SV and Veep but will not likely watch this. Thanks for accommodating.

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