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

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

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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?

https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/silicon-valleys-thomas-middleditch-really-loves-swinging.html

so, you're saying this guy fucks

oh, that was already discussed (maybe itt) back when it came out. I'm quite happy to hear people talking about swinging and polyamory but the tidbit in the interview, that he dropped his need for a marriage that included swinging on his wife right after they got married, is pretty uncool seeming

Avenue 5 has Jared playing Jared in space (I barely made it through the first episode).

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)

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

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