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

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

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.

A thread for Armando Iannucci's VEEP

TS: Rye bread or Pumpernickel?

Hot Dog / Not Hot Dog