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Watched 4 episodes of Season 1 tonight. Enjoyed it.
Will keep watching.
Meant to start watching this years ago, but just remembered that I never did.
Welcome to 2014.
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Watched 4 episodes of Season 1 tonight. Enjoyed it.
Will keep watching.
Meant to start watching this years ago, but just remembered that I never did.
Welcome to 2014.
Emacs really is for ass idiotics. I tried making this argument 25 years ago, but no one took me seriously.
Agree. Totally doesn't belong on this show. Also, I predicted that plot point about the clearer video chat as soon as Dinesh said he would need to improve its quality to see if the chick was actually hot. "Oh, but what if Dinesh himself isn't hot enough?" BURN! Yeah, way too predictable, as are Dinesh's continual fails with women.
So apparently TJ Miller, who isn't coming back as Erlich Bachman in Season 5, is just as weird and obnoxious in real life as Erlich Bachman.
http://mashable.com/2017/06/26/tj-mi.../#5zpgj_RbtSqW
He also doesn't like Thomas Middleditch or Alex Berg.
Mike Judge to TJ to just be himself when playing Erlich.
His 1 hour special is like an hour with Erlich Bachman, without the great writing.
"Druff would suck his own dick if it were long enough"- Brandon "drexel" Gerson
"ann coulter literally has more common sense than pfa."-Sonatine
"Real grinders supports poker fraud"- Ray Davis
"DRILLED HER GOOD"- HONGKONGER
I dont think its about like/dislike, I think its just about TJ watching the show swirl down the toilet and wanting to get out of the bowl. And to some extent, he holds people responsible for it starting to suuuuuuuck, but he happens to be right.
It would be one thing if the show wasnt clinically unfunny of late, but wow it really is not funny at this point. And TM demanding script rewrites, for example, is exaaaaactly how things go from on the rails to off them.
I do think hes sincere when he says he absolutely loves TJ and respects the shit out of him and I also think hes sincere when he hints that he sees what we see except he has to sit there quietly while he watches all the things that fuck up the show happen.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Also lest we forget this show is _definitely_ getting picked up for syndication and he has those sweet, sweet residuals that are going to keep him in medal winning kush well into old age.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
His comments about the show's direction were correct.
I also find this aspect of the show frustrating. Rather than exploring Pied Piper getting funded, growing, and the trials and tribulations that come with that (along with the follies involving competition from Hooli), the show has been stuck in the following infinite loop:But I just thought that what the show has suffered from, what’s bad about it, is that Richard is the CEO and then he isn’t but then he finds his way back to be CEO, and then once he finds his way back to being the CEO he says he doesn’t want to be the CEO, and it’s just the same thing over and over.
10 PIED PIPER HAS SOMETHING REVOLUTIONARY OR GAME CHANGING
20 NOBODY WILL TAKE IT SERIOUSLY, OR ITS IMPLEMENTATION IS FLAWED
30 THEY GET IT RIGHT AND EVERYONE GETS EXCITED AND WANTS TO FUND THEM
40 THEY GET FUNDING
50 SOMETHING GOES WRONG AND IT ALL GOES INTO THE TOILET
60 GOTO 10
Also, the Gavin Belson character, one which has a lot of potential, has been turned into a comically inept buffoon.
It's too bad, because I still see the flashes of brilliance in the show, but it's definitely stuck in a rut.
Plus it was a brilliant send-up of the entire real life dot com phenomenon.... for about 6 or 7 hours. It really got into the trenches and put a spotlight on some amazing shit, and then at some point pivoted away from absurdist satire so it could focus, inexplicably, on character development.
Ugh now I hate TM too.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
While Silicon Valley is going to suck without TJ Miller, the producers have to be fairly happy with the fact that he left the show.
He was accused of "punching and sexually assaulting" a woman while in college, which were mostly allegations of unconsensual roughness during consensual sex: https://www.thedailybeast.com/silico...nching-a-woman
The accusations were just made public now, though there was a university hearing about it at the time.
Miller denies the allegations: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...ry?id=51889225
For some reason his wife is involved in the denial. I believe she went to the same school and knew the accuser, but I'm also getting the vibe that there may have been some kind of sexual threesome between them at some point (though this isn't being stated).
or maybe that was the joke.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Season 5 is five weeks away, premiering on March 25, 2018.
I will watch, but I'm not all that optimistic. Between the departure of TJ/Erlich (the best character, honestly) and the general bedshitting by the writing staff in the past 2 seasons, I have a feeling it will be disappointing.
But maybe they'll surprise me.
I just hope they're done with the irritating "Pied Piper is about to hit it big but something happens and it all gets fucked up and they're back to square one" plot device. It's been done over and over, and it's an irritating plot device to begin with. Very frustrating for the viewer.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
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