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

Jared had a hell of a moment on this episode lol

I laughed the hardest at:

Yes.... No

No.... Yes

lol @ the "Foxhole" app

Talking about the tree inside the house, and then revealing that it was in fact an all-glass house was pretty good

Enjoyed the first two but in the Ep3 preview, there was more Richard puking jfc enough already.

this show is v funny but Richard's role as moral compass is weirdly unexplored/unexplained - like, why does he have a problem with all these things nobody else around him ever has a problem with

Jared's the moral compass, Richard just wants things his own way

I don't think that's right. Richard clearly thinks the data-gathering-for-marketing thing is inherently wrong.

I don't think it needs explanation? so many of the silicon valley types are amoral assholes that most of the regular working ppl just go along with it bcz that's the world they live in. Richard has m/l a normal person's moral compass, so when he falteringly brings attention to gross human rights violations, a handful of ppl close to him think "yeah that's true" and go along with his efforts to do better bcz a) they get briefly aspirational and b) Richard's whims are the smaller world that they live in.

Gilfoyle mostly just wants to code and either be left alone or be acknowledged to be superior. so if amoral monsters will leave him alone, he's happy, but if he has the chance to do something that fucks over amoral monsters while coding, he will take that chance.

Richard has m/l a normal person's moral compass

but... why, especially after all this time in the Valley?

I think he's just extremely single-minded and right now his vision just happens to align on the moral side of the argument. Also, it's a half hour comedy show that has never really been big on exploring character development.

he also isn't that moral. was going to take the evil chilean dude's money

it’s a lot of money

I think Richard has ethics but not morals, as much as you could make distinctions. Or at least he has an ethic (tech libertarian, with ownership of personal data being prime)

Otm, he may have one principle. He's not a good person, he's just disrupting Big Data.

also the idea that projects should be able to succeed in their purest form: no box, no data mining, just enabling

For a final season of seven episodes (from what I understand), the creators seem to not be very bothered with moving the plot forward. Episode four was much like episode two in this regard.

lol who cares about the plot? show is basically a comedy of manners, just a series of setups for the characters to get into uncomfortable situations

otm

the creators seem to not be very bothered with moving the plot forward

here's an idea for a plot they could try: Pied Piper starts a new enterprise, and it's going really well but then a competitor sabotages them & they could lose it all! but they do something clever and save the company, ending up with a different business model

they're gonna have to step it up if there's only three episodes left, but episode four was clearly setting up a lot of dominos

no one truly fails in SV, they only fall face first into opportunity

I'm looking forward to RussFest

was dying @ his jacket that was two other jackets cut in half and sewn together

That was one of the funniest ones in a long time

https://www.russfest.net/

I would watch this show just for Jared. even his fake laugh at Richard's attempts at jokes.

The playlist!

"Bitchard" on both Jin Yang's and Monica's phones was good.

they managed to make Russ likable and Richard detestable

Richard has been unlikable or worse for several seasons now

Richard's relatable when he's trying to accomplish a great thing, or takes on an ethical stance that's relatable, but as a person... he's Bitchard and always has been. He's just been juxtaposed with worse people in most conflicts!

it wasn't the best payoff but i'm glad they did pay off bighead's simon obsession

I kinda got whiplash from him turning down a billion dollars from the evil Chilean guy and then being relatively untroubled by Russ blackmailing the California DA on his behalf

funniest scene this season is still jared meeting his birth parents

this season has plenty of laughs so I'm not really complaining, a whole season at Russfest would have been great

Yeah if anything I wish they had gone further with Russfest; I thought they'd end up taking it further in the Fyre Festival direction. The commercial for it in the previous episode was maybe my favorite moment this season. Show is still pretty funny but I'm ready for it to end

funniest scene this season is still jared meeting his birth parents

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found this part way too over the top myself

Nah, Jared's backstory has always been super over the top and dark, so I thought it worked.

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

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