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

jesus christ Marie Antoinette would blush

actually it might not be capable of being parodied, they would have to just present it as-is

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/536405c670ae53c4ffa8ddf015576274902c675e/0_0_1440_2160/master/1440.jpg?w=1920&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=43e3bfd0f80ca33cf82f6e2ddecf92e9

this show keeps getting better

agreed! mike judge may secretly be my favorite comedy creator. i am wondering how hands on he is on an episode by episode basis

I do like this show altho idk if I'd say it's getting better. Sometimes the plot contortions get in the way of the jokes (watching it I have a hard time not thinking about Judge's comment about how they have a hard time "constantly coming up with different ways for them to fail")

totally loving this show atm

http://www.piedpiper.com/

The bios are totally hilarious.

oh boy this goes deep.

http://www.coderag.com/

http://www.raviga.com/

i hope they get more mileage out of dang

lol @ Ehrlich's "BA in Ultimate Frisbee"

bahahahaha

At Raviga, we see the big picture. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards. We not only think outside of the box, we think outside of the box that box is in — and so on — until innovation is free of all boxes that would contain and constrain it. In this way, we seek to disrupt the very concept of disruption itself.

lol @ the companies the members of the sales team worked for previously

had to read Jared's bio to my Vassar-educated wife.

it's very appropriate! after every time he's on screen, I find myself thinking, "Oh Jared, what has the world done to you?"

"hey Dinesh nice chain do you choke your mother with it when you put your penis in her butthole?"

Worst episode in a while?

the continual failures are getting a bit exasperating, but im excited to see how Big Head is gonna back his way into success again.

when does this season end? I was dropping my HBO streaming subscription for a few months and was going to pick it back up and binge the whole season, but you are tempting me into jumping back in now

especially if there's more Big Head content

prob the most Big Head content since the first season!

This was episode 5 so another 5-7 weeks?

5

Something about this show seems very Entourage to me: the quick reversals of fortune, the comic relief from the programmer equivalents of Turtle and Drama, the 'agent,' the token females. That said I enjoy it very much...

That's been the problem for the last couple of episodes, they need to draw out these situations a little longer. The HD bit this week was a bunch of setup for a five second punchline. I expected more hijinks.

http://www.piedpiper.com/

they updated the website to reflect the new hires!

the synergy of television and the web is so 1998

i feel like they are interested in shortening time between plot developments which leaves a lot of potential comedy feeling like it goes by the wayside but also makes it feel like there's a real purposeful meanderingness to the plot lol

the continual failures are getting a bit exasperating,

otmfm, it wd be nice to see the plot progress just a little w/o the excruciating tension of constant and often improbable fuckups

I was wracked with nervousness this week because I expected everything to turn terrible again before the end and they were running out of time

So now I feel worried about how soon Richard will fuck things up as CEO next week

mike judge may secretly be my favorite comedy creator. i am wondering how hands on he is on an episode by episode basis

iirc from a radio interview, he is in the room for breaking story, then goes back to Austin for the writing & pre-production periods, flying in for the weeks he directs episodes

that sounds about right.
the bones are solid but the post milch hbo method of kick the can forward first, creator's great plan second means that these shows are uneven in terms of character development even tho' they maintain flavor
i dunno if that's a criticism; it's amazing they have such a high batting average

at the moment i mean
remember the halcyon days of mind of the married man and carnivale

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

"homosexuality being defined as insanity in the DSM" lol.

that was funny but i was hoping it was 4 minutes of them pronouncing "Aviato" at each other.

"the second run of Beavis & Butthead"

otmfm, it wd be nice to see the plot progress just a little w/o the excruciating tension of constant and often improbable fuckups

Tbh, this is pretty much the theme of so much good TV these days. "The Excruciating Tension of Constant and Often Improbable Fuckups" is like a subgenre unto itself.

"Hunger is the best sauce." Dying.

Great ep. "I guess Russ was right..."

"Jared. Nice. Using that dick."

a+ delivery on that one

Zach Woods nailed the response, too. Small moment, but maybe the funniest thing the show has done

a lot of this show's best moments are small things w/ delivery and brief asides that you can miss if you blink too quickly. the plot's constant motion is a plus, IMO, for delivering this kind of stuff

My favorite blink-and-you-miss-it joke this ep was Bachmann sneaking the Three Comma alcohol into the restaurant to save money in the intro

Yeah for a show that's so broad and cartoony it really nails the small character stuff

kudos to middleditch for making every 'm'lady' more painful + awkward than the last

Reminded me of a favorite Amy Schumer skit about m'ladies, skewering needy dorky guys who use that term.

Jared's "stuffed animal"

He is right about the tabs vs spaces thing. though.

oh god, the team interacting with women is so bad

https://github.com/Stitchpunk

!!

watching episode and seeing these comments as Richard is having a full on hissy fit is awesome