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
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
ginsberg dude seemed like a rebooted scott baio
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
joanie love s1ocki
― idontknowanythingabouttechnlolgeez (waterface), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
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
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
otm hey guys just swap sci fi for religion, hilarious
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
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
― Gritty Shakur (sic), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
Love the Tobacco music
― calstars, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
The cigar-playing is exquisite
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
they picked a hell of a week to reference david choe
http://guardianlv.com/2014/04/facebook-artist-in-trouble-after-recent-podcast/
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 5 May 2014 11:39 (nine years ago) link
the silicon valley episode of veep did everything this show is trying to do 1000x better
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 5 May 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link
You are probably right, but it is still good.
― under the cobblestones, le dogshit (xelab), Monday, 5 May 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
racism stuff in this was A+
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 May 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
like really racist?
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 5 May 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
really clumsy ep
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 5 May 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
feel like you guys are "judging" this television show.
― mattresslessness, Monday, 5 May 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
Starr was really funny this ep
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 May 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
I thank this show for the using the phrase "snack dick"
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 5 May 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
i'm bailing on this show, it's no good
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 00:46 (nine years ago) link
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.
― ryan, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
:|
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 00:49 (nine years ago) link
Silly COn Alley
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 00:51 (nine years ago) link
disagree with s1ocki but am ok with him going his own way
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
as long as nanjiani is on the show i'll probably keep watching it
― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link
It's just okay but there's nothing more worthy right now, really.
Anyone know which service has Party Down streaming?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link
starz
― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link
what do ppl think about this new hbo rapture show? looks maybe fun
― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 01:14 (nine years ago) link
is that the lindelof one? If so I will avoid like a plague
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 05:16 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Berk errs Gibbs/Ox (aldo), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 09:09 (nine years ago) link
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
― am0n, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
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!
― ryan, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
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.
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
I think there's some charisma! it's fleeting though.
― ryan, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
maybe the real SV is really that silly
it is really this silly
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
― am0n, Tuesday, May 6, 2014 1:58 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
vw could be so much better except the outsiders perspective means that they actually don't know the tech they're describing well, and they end up skewering silly social things more often than actually derranged things, and on top of that stick to gossip about the same top targets instead of casting a broader eye around the landscape.
also occasionally it is not nearly caustic enough, and buys the idea that some stuff is actually sorta neat. (i mean, maybe some is, but it would be a better voice to never acknowledge it!)
i mean that said it still has occasional great coverage, but the bread and butter of vw is pretty tepid.
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Monday, 12 May 2014 04:48 (nine years ago) link
i would find it easier to step away from this show if it didn't provide at least one belly laugh per episode this one was dude slapping the kid and telling him he "brought piss to a shit fight"
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 12 May 2014 04:56 (nine years ago) link
best episode so far imo.
― ryan, Monday, 12 May 2014 05:11 (nine years ago) link
wait, you think valleywag is TOO credulous?
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 12 May 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
i actually thing vw suffers a bit from not having boots on the ground. i read a great piece about the silicon valley premiere and all the dumb shit tech people were saying about it on recode, really sort of hang-them-with-their-own-rope stuff, and i wished vw could do that sort of thing.
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 12 May 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
this was the dumbest episode so far
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 02:14 (nine years ago) link
it's enjoyable but I could stand about 100% more satire
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 05:11 (nine years ago) link
most exciting file download ever
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
first legit funny ep i thought
― Mordy, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
hopeful for next season now that this one is out of the way.
― ryan, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
I thought the hand job efficiency calculating was very funny!
― xelab, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah that was a really funny ep top to bottom
the calculation stuff was cracking me up
also Jared crowdsourcing his "pivot" ideas was hilarious
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
yeah that was definitely the best episode yet, though it made the tacked-on romance thing seem even more superfluous than before somehow
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
I just found out today that Christopher Evan Welch died in the middle of the series.
― akm, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
as Veep
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
Jared’s in Avenue 5 iirc?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
and it is on HBO -hence the SV connection
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
same creator as veepin the sunday 10 pm hour a la silicon valleyzach woods is in it (my favorite role tbh)
― maura, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
But this isn't the Veep thread?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
pinning this on the "(HBO Show)"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
considering SV has ended, it isn't a horrible breach of etiquette to talk about related shows on this thread?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
Zach Woods worked with Iannucci before Silicon Valley, so the link is even more tenuous
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
we're discussing it here bc what we all agree is that it doesn't merit its own thread
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
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.
― Yelploaf, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
A thread for Armando Iannucci's VEEP
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
TS: Rye bread or Pumpernickel?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link
Hot Dog / Not Hot Dog
― sarahell, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
Thomas Middleditch and his wife broke up from all the swinging and he picked today to do the news dump https://t.co/SXS45Vzptn— Molly Lambert 🦔 (@mollylambert) May 31, 2020
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 1 June 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
mollie..... hello
― mh, Monday, 1 June 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
thomas middleditched
― fatuous salad (symsymsym), Monday, 1 June 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link