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

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

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