Silicon Valley - Why You Should Watch It

[Dan Druff]

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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.

[Dan Druff]

also in case its not obvious emacs is for total ass idiotics and vim is fucking rule, chug that shit.

Emacs really is for ass idiotics. I tried making this argument 25 years ago, but no one took me seriously.

seriously? sad rhodes music while dinesh gets slayed in video chat?

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.

[Dan Druff]

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.

[Mintjewlips]

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.

[sonatine]

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.

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.

[sonatine]

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.

[Dan Druff]

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.

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.

His comments about the show's direction were correct.

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.

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:

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.

[sonatine]

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.

[Dan Druff]

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).

[DRK Star]

Maybe they fired TJ because he cant even smoke a bowl properly

Weed packed into blue end, where the smoke comes out of




Lights the wrong end

[sonatine]

or maybe that was the joke.

[Avon Barksdale]

Maybe they fired TJ because he cant even smoke a bowl properly

Weed packed into blue end, where the smoke comes out of




Lights the wrong end

Pretty common tactic with germaphobes like myself that are sharing pieces with multiple people.

[DRK Star]

Who would he share his bowl with?

[JACKDANIELS]

GET HIM DEREK

[sonatine]

Who would he share his bowl with?

Who wouldnt he share his bowl with?

[JACKDANIELS]

DAMNNNNNNNNNNNNN

[Dan Druff]

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.

[sonatine]

"Pied Piper is about to hit it big but Richard fucks it all up and they're back to square one"

-1850

[DRK Star]

Who would he share his bowl with?

Who wouldnt he share his bowl with?

I'm thinking, every other person in the house.

Has he ever taken a puff and shared with another person that was with him? I don't remember any other character smoking with him. Guilfoyle?

[DRK Star]

Jared had a bong in his hand. Did he hit it?