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

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.

I think there's some charisma! it's fleeting though.

maybe the real SV is really that silly

it is really this silly

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

― 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.

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"

best episode so far imo.

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!)

wait, you think valleywag is TOO credulous?

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.

this was the dumbest episode so far

it's enjoyable but I could stand about 100% more satire

most exciting file download ever

first legit funny ep i thought

hopeful for next season now that this one is out of the way.

I thought the hand job efficiency calculating was very funny!

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

yeah that was definitely the best episode yet, though it made the tacked-on romance thing seem even more superfluous than before somehow

I just found out today that Christopher Evan Welch died in the middle of the series.

Woah

yeah he'll be missed

idg what made this episode different from those that preceded it for you guys. seemed like more of the same to me (which is fine). Erlich consistently the funniest imo

I just found out today that Christopher Evan Welch died in the middle of the series.

It is another case of a relatively young 9/11 first responder succumbing to the asbestos exposure of that day, it seems like they are dropping like flies. I have had plenty of that shit myself but nothing compared to that day in one dose.

idk anything else that that eldrich guy is in but I recently saw a pretty great thing on youtube where he does a moth-like standup thing and tells a story about getting part of his brain removed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kduZLSyCU6s

tj miller is a weird funny motherfucker

his podcast is bizarre & funny if you're in the right mood for stonertalk

I enjoyed the Kara Swisher cameo in the finale. Homegirl is pretty short!

Will Sam Biddle be in season tiddle

So good.

hotswap dicks in and out

the absolute commitment to the question on its own terms (populated by dick diagrams) and the lengths to which they took it really made the bit incredibly funny

when they got to "hot swapping dicks" i was in love, i lold so hard

Watched the first half of the season (eps 1-5) last night. So good.

it gets better as it goes along imo

Prob better here than the LOLZ thread: http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/04/silicon-valley-dick-joke-oral-history/

4 more days!

gonna miss my favorite character :(

It's funny that consultant is anonymous despite his name being all over the internet associated with this joke.

https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/kumailsiliconvalleydickjoke22-thumb-550x309-113200.gif?w=650&h=365

lol

https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/586678680576925696

loooool wtf

lol, kumail should be fucking with them hard about this

Patton Oswalt has the biggest grin right about now.

ah well he took the high ground
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/silicon-valley-star-calls-salon-787889

ugh a lot of people I normally like are being stupid on twitter about this

worst part of the original flub was def the use of "in fact." ouuuch

could not stop loling at the name "Stern Taylor"

http://i.imgur.com/FUhsvbS.png
http://i.imgur.com/74b1qQA.png

so this dealt with the peter gregory/christopher evan welch-sized elephant in the room really well - the bizarro monologue explaining his death was utterly hilarious

yeah i loved that

I wonder how much of the season they'd shot and how much of it they had to overhaul and rewrite/reshoot

I think he'd already died while they were shooting the end of last season.