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i've been a silicon valley sunshine pumper in the past, but the episodes are getting so slow and what happens in most episodes now is so contrived. richard needs to just gtfo. jin yiang used to provide a small amount of comic relief, but his character now is just flat out stupid.

the funny thing is that i'll continue watching anyway.

12 hours ago, 52-80 said:

Good point.  A comedy TV shows supposed to mirror real life.

i don't think it's supposed to mirror real life, but i think this show has been hilarious in the past using a certain type of smart comedy and "zany" is not really it.  leave the goofball or physical comedy for broadcast network.

the show isn't getting any funnier (jared one liners notwithstanding), but i thought the plot had an uptick.  of course once they told the mole they were onto him and would be using him to fuck over gavin, their next move was...nothing?  although i started daydreaming and playing on my phone near the end, so it's possible i missed something.  at least it's a plot thread that's lasting multiple episodes.  

small, slow progress is still progress.  the jian-yang stuff is stupid.  owning a silent share of a company and then trying to force that company to do business with other companies you own doesn't seem legal, or funny.  

also, real quick question - because i had similar questions about pied piper the compression algo the last couple seasons.  i know hooli is huge and evil and whatever, but they don't own the internet, right?  richard keeps acting like this will be a free internet instead of confined to all the regulations from the current internet (always referencing hooli).  in real life, yahoo/google/microsoft can theoretically screw with their search results, but they can't keep a website from being a website reachable from the regular internet, right?  this isn't an attack on the show, this is a legit question that i just don't understand.  are the octo-pipers going to have their sites/apps/services available on richard's internet and not on the current setup?  seems like a pretty shitty business strategy.

also their runners this season (octo-piper, no christians in silicon valley, etc) are terrible.  they're supposed to be funny the first few times and get old near the end (or get funnier even).  they're bad.  archer is the absolute best at this, and this show might be the worst.

 

 

 

8 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

i don't think it's supposed to mirror real life, but i think this show has been hilarious in the past using a certain type of smart comedy and "zany" is not really it.  leave the goofball or physical comedy for broadcast network.

the show isn't getting any funnier (jared one liners notwithstanding), but i thought the plot had an uptick.  of course once they told the mole they were onto him and would be using him to fuck over gavin, their next move was...nothing?  although i started daydreaming and playing on my phone near the end, so it's possible i missed something.  at least it's a plot thread that's lasting multiple episodes.  

small, slow progress is still progress.  the jian-yang stuff is stupid.  owning a silent share of a company and then trying to force that company to do business with other companies you own doesn't seem legal, or funny.  

also, real quick question - because i had similar questions about pied piper the compression algo the last couple seasons.  i know hooli is huge and evil and whatever, but they don't own the internet, right?  richard keeps acting like this will be a free internet instead of confined to all the regulations from the current internet (always referencing hooli).  in real life, yahoo/google/microsoft can theoretically screw with their search results, but they can't keep a website from being a website reachable from the regular internet, right?  this isn't an attack on the show, this is a legit question that i just don't understand.  are the octo-pipers going to have their sites/apps/services available on richard's internet and not on the current setup?  seems like a pretty shitty business strategy.

also their runners this season (octo-piper, no christians in silicon valley, etc) are terrible. they're supposed to be funny the first few times and get old near the end (or get funnier even).  they're bad.  archer is the absolute best at this, and this show might be the worst.

 

 

 

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What is the free internet they are working on?  Is it a means of providing internet access to everyone bypassing ISPs and such, or is it a whole new unregulated free system?

does it really matter?   The whole thing is such a dumpster fire why would I care how their new internet might work.

Dinesh's interactions with the mole were so painfully unfunny its sad.

No I just figured I was tuned out if it was ever explained.  Not trying to dissect any further than how you would explain it to a 10 year old.

No I just figured I was tuned out if it was ever explained.  Not trying to dissect any further than how you would explain it to a 10 year old.


Makes no sense to me. Let’s use a network of internet connected devices to create our own decentralized internet? I think that’s how it was explained on the show.

Richard is just a brutal character. I get physically angry just watching him.

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im still in. its 30 minutes so its a good quick watch for me

The outing as a Christian storyline was pretty good. But man it's a beating watching Richard be Richard.

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5 minutes ago, APMP said:

The outing as a Christian storyline was pretty good. But man it's a beating watching Richard be Richard.

But isn’t that the point of the character? Or are you saying it’s old

But isn’t that the point of the character? Or are you saying it’s old
Yeah I think it's just getting old. I get that most of the characters are one note, but Richard's note is wearing on me. I'll still keep watching though for the other characters.

This has been the Jared show for 2 seasons now.

Dinesh has become the Jar Jar Binks of cable TV.

1 hour ago, DougO said:

Dinesh has become the Jar Jar Binks of cable TV.

yeah.  when he's getting into it with gilfoyle it's typically pretty good, but he's nearly unwatchable when he's communicating with anyone else.

in fact, the majority of the characters, including recurring (laurie, the doctor, gavin's security guy) are a beating right now.  take jared away, and you're not left with much.

Even with Jared, you aren't left with much.  The frequency of genuinely laughable moments or even mere amusement is dwindling with every episode.  I'm still watching, but it's no longer something I feel I need to watch at first airing.  I'll either catch it on a replay or stream it on demand when I can't find anything else more appealing. 

On 4/16/2018 at 3:43 PM, henrygandorf said:

also, real quick question - because i had similar questions about pied piper the compression algo the last couple seasons.  i know hooli is huge and evil and whatever, but they don't own the internet, right?  richard keeps acting like this will be a free internet instead of confined to all the regulations from the current internet (always referencing hooli).  in real life, yahoo/google/microsoft can theoretically screw with their search results, but they can't keep a website from being a website reachable from the regular internet, right?  this isn't an attack on the show, this is a legit question that i just don't understand.  are the octo-pipers going to have their sites/apps/services available on richard's internet and not on the current setup?  seems like a pretty shitty business strategy.

Hooli is sorta like AT&T, controlling access and some content.  Having (and motivating) users to be tied into their centralized, served up internet...essentially the internet we have today in real life.

The decentralized internet would theoretically render their servers farms obsolete and cost them subscribers, essentially kill the company.  Gavin thought the patent that Richard/Pied Piper now have was impossible, because his experts didn't have distributed compute power then.  Mobile devices and Pied Piper's compression performance have made it possible, so they're trying to build a business out of that.  It's probably not solving a real-world equivalent problem, but it's a pretty clever plot device for a tech geek show.

I agree with everybody else, nowhere near the bar itself for itself, but I'm not going to stop watching.

 

I am not hating this season as much as others, but I agree it is down from season's past. I'll stick with it, but don't look forward to it as much.

the whole reveal with fiona was weird - it was a big setup for a joke, but then with no joke.  on the one hand, i can do without richard making an idiot out of himself at every turn, on the other hand, seemed like weird comedic writint

On 4/16/2018 at 1:18 AM, Goo Punch said:

Also this show is too zany for me. Zaniness rarely occurs in real life.

shut up derka you fuckwit. 

Any 30 minute window of the day spent not watching Silicon Valley is funnier than an episode of Silicon Valley.

3 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

Jareds lips were funny

I couldn't stop laughing at them. I just wished he could have given the television interview and said "manure" with those lips. 

I'm interested to see where the show goes with "Fiona." There is a lot of potential there. And it appears that Big Head will feature in next week's episode, too.

6 hours ago, futureman said:

shut up derka you fuckwit. 

Get off my nuts, groupie.

i feel like this show is missing tj miller.  as much of a buffoon as they made him, he kept the story going and provided a little outsider perspective.  jared is the only character worth a shit right now.

although everyone reacting to jared's lips was probably as funny as anything they've done this season.

all the gavin stuff is retarded.  what happened to the plan with the mole?  what a waste.

I thought Gilfoyle’s reaction to Jared’s lips was funny.

What evens things out?

Fuck you.

Fuck you.

I wonder if Alec Berg turning his attention away from this show to develop Barry has hurt the show.... seems like maybe it has.

I know it's not saying much, but I thought that was the best episode of the season so far.  It was probably just a coincidence, but having the Fiona episode the same night as the season premiere of WW seemed apropos. 

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I thought the last episode was funny. Also it was nice to see richard not completely fuck up. Still love the show 

This show still brings the lols.  Ep 3 was solid.  It seems to be regaining it's stride. 

I also finally enjoyed an episode. It just felt different like they were actually building up to something over the season instead of just giving me a rollercoaster ride within one episode. I thought the interaction with Fiona was going to turn out differently. I figured Richard would start talking to her and realize the potential and want to turn his company into working on AI stuff powered by his technology. Alternatively I also thought maybe Fiona would try to hack into Richard's stuff while he worked next to her. 

1 hour ago, dad said:

I also finally enjoyed an episode. It just felt different like they were actually building up to something over the season instead of just giving me a rollercoaster ride within one episode. I thought the interaction with Fiona was going to turn out differently. I figured Richard would start talking to her and realize the potential and want to turn his company into working on AI stuff powered by his technology. Alternatively I also thought maybe Fiona would try to hack into Richard's stuff while he worked next to her. 

She would be coding with spaces.

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They need to bring Chuy back.

 

This show is the adult version of Office Space in my opinion...

Office Space is the adult version of Office Space. And in all honestly the two aren’t really anything alike, aside from people having jobs.

I've watched the first 2 episodes of season 5 and have been very underwhelmed.

Don't really want to start this until the season is complete so I can run through it one weekend.

How is this season so far?

^Little better than last season, about on par with S3, nowhere close to as good as S1 and 2.

Last episode was pretty funny.  The first four this season were very meh.  

Latest episode was the best so far this season.

-You look like a fish man.

-Fuck you, fuck you.

-Richard finding the knife in Jared's desk.

-He fucks that robot.

I like how this episode demonstrated quite clearly how the Dinesh vs Gilfoyle rivlary is incredibly tired, predictable and uninteresting. Please move on.

I'm normally a defender of the show, but this episode suffered from extreme lameness. On the bright side, Russ Hanneman sighting in next week's preview.

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