Silicon Valley: Season 2

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HBO | Season Premiere Date: April 12, 2015

Starring: Martin Starr, T.J. Miller, Zach Woods

Summary: The Mike Judge comedy returns for its second season.

Creator: Mike Judge and John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky

Genre(s): Comedy, Tech & Gaming

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Season 2 Episodes

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S2:E10. Two Days of the Condor
Air Date: June 14, 2015
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S2:E9. Binding Arbitration
Air Date: June 7, 2015
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S2:E8. White Hat/Black Hat
Air Date: May 31, 2015

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Tim Goodman

Apr 13, 2015

Silicon Valley comes out of the gates as strong as its remarkable freshman season, skewering people, places, ideas and the pomposity of the entire tech world. Read full review

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David Wiegand

Apr 10, 2015

The first two episodes of the second Silicon Valley season are more than satisfying. Read full review

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Jeff Jensen

Apr 11, 2015

I love how smart and snide Silicon Valley is about ambition, and I love how the show’s actors imbue their geeky cut-outs with winsomely flawed humanity that allows us to care about them even as they undercut each other and themselves in their pursuit of success and significance. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Apr 9, 2015

Silicon Valley has impressively built into its storyline a real-life development that struck the show, and come away not only unbowed but with perhaps a renewed sense of vigor. Read full review

Alan Sepinwall

Apr 11, 2015

Almost everything that made the show a treat a year ago is present for the new season. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Apr 10, 2015

There’s sort of a “fill-in” character for Gregory this season on whom I’m not yet sold after three episodes, but the saga of Pied Piper still promises to be one of the most interesting, and hysterical ones of the Spring. Read full review

Matt Zoller Seitz

Apr 13, 2015

This feels like a "two steps forward, one step back" storytelling strategy, not unlike what you'd seen in almost any other sitcom that has a rather slight story and needs to pad things out. If not for the droll and frequently profane byplay between Richard, Erlich, and housemates Gilfoyle (Martin Starr), Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani), and Jared (Zach Woods), Silicon Valley's paralyzed feeling might grate more and feel too obviously like an attempt to run out the show's storytelling clock until the writers can figure out what the next really good move is. Read full review

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shadow47

Apr 13, 2015

Watched the first episode and could not stop laughing. It is an absolutely brilliant show, so much so that I look forward to this on Sunday than I do to Game of Thrones.

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SchroederRock

Jul 16, 2016

Nothing short of brilliance. Every episode is as funny as it is important. Comedies can't get any better than this. Granted it has a slightly more limited audience than some shows but it is brilliant nonetheless. Give me all the seasons and I will eat them up with much vigor.

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TheQuietGamer

May 11, 2015

The second season of HBO's comedy series ups the troubles the Pied Piper crew faces. With deadlines and a lawsuit hanging over them the stress Richard is out through provides plenty of laughs as well as a reason to root for him. The excellent supporting cast and their different personalitiesThe second season of HBO's comedy series ups the troubles the Pied Piper crew faces. With deadlines and a lawsuit hanging over them the stress Richard is out through provides plenty of laughs as well as a reason to root for him. The excellent supporting cast and their different personalities mix in well. Their are likable and their interactions are often hilarious. Newcomers fit in just as well and succeed in the same areas.

This season is pretty weak in it's overall plot focus. The lawsuit put against Pied Piper is barely mentioned and things aren't really moving forward in that department. The episodes so far focus on issues that pop up in their day to day operations. The results are still entertaining and filled with exciting technobabble.

Overall even with some focus issues the improved sense of scale makes for a better season. The humor is just as on point as ever with moments that feel real to the characters. You don't need to have a particular love for technology to get into this show. Probably it's greatest strength is that the humor and characters are relatable enough to attract a larger audience than just tech geeks.

So far I give season 2 of "Silicon Valley" a 9.4/10.

*Given that this season in still in progress my review is subject to change later if I feel there is an increase or decrease in quality or just if some other points pop up that I feel need to be mentioned. As of right now though consider this my definitive review.… Expand

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kunal-

Apr 20, 2015

The same old HBO's **** screenplay - instead of a creative ending, cut the episode in the middle of something critical.. Gets very annoying at times..

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DonKnottsGhost

Apr 15, 2015

Since I live and work in Silicon Valley I find this show particularly hilarious. I wasn't sure if the rest of the world finds this as entertaining, but rest assured that the social commentary going on here is spot-on. Great season opener. I really feel like I'm rooting for these guys, butSince I live and work in Silicon Valley I find this show particularly hilarious. I wasn't sure if the rest of the world finds this as entertaining, but rest assured that the social commentary going on here is spot-on. Great season opener. I really feel like I'm rooting for these guys, but also laughing at the insane socially awkward and self-congratulatory interactions that present themselves. Plus Palo Alto kids selling ritalin to programmers last season was hysterical.… Expand

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JamesIrish68

Sep 24, 2015

The out of the pan into the fire story lines are fun for now but I hope they don't overdo them in the future. The social awkwardness of the nerd is very well done. Bachman is not aware enough to be self conscious but his crassness is just cringingly awkward to watch and all the funnier forThe out of the pan into the fire story lines are fun for now but I hope they don't overdo them in the future. The social awkwardness of the nerd is very well done. Bachman is not aware enough to be self conscious but his crassness is just cringingly awkward to watch and all the funnier for it. Jared is quite brilliance in the background. Its parody of the real Silicon Valley and maybe not that much of a parody.… Expand

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marc5477

Sep 27, 2015

And yet another portrayal of supposedly smart people, as dumb doorknobs. Its old and tiring. Every movie, every tv show, and even US cartoons, portrays intelligence as stupid. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS IDIOT SAVANTS. They do not exist. There are times when someone stupid does somethingAnd yet another portrayal of supposedly smart people, as dumb doorknobs. Its old and tiring. Every movie, every tv show, and even US cartoons, portrays intelligence as stupid. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS IDIOT SAVANTS. They do not exist. There are times when someone stupid does something interesting by accident, but that is not what is happening in this show. Further, there is no such thing as a holly grail of lossless compression that is leagues better than other lossless compression designed for a specific data type... Seriously guys, get a clue. Its called the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics... we took it in high school.

Anyway, this idiot savant is surrounded by extra crispy morons and somehow all the CEO's and execs are deep fried morons too. Talk about no respect whatsoever for anyone. To make matters worse, the comedy is dry, and very "high school." It felt like I was watching an Adam Sandler movie. Mind you, I like some of his movies, but you cant watch too many in succession because it gets old very fast and none of these actors are inherently funny. So overall... dry comedy, bad plots, horrid characters.... not a good show. Pass.

-------WARNING GEEK STUFF FOLLOWS-----------

Lossless compression has not gotten much better in the last 20 years for a reason, the reason is physics. Besides, file size pales in comparison to the speed at which hardware, and network speed increase over time. For instance, a movie file was around 600mb way back in the 90s for a decent rip/encode. Today it is still variable around 600mb to 2gb. But over the same period of time, hard drives have grown 100x fold. Network speed has gone from 56kps to over 10Gbps. Internet backbones are using 100Gb connections and 50+Tbps fiber is already in the works... CPU speed is exponentially faster. Compression is not the problem... fast compression is probably much more important to netflix and youtube than file size.… Expand

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  Air Date: April 23, 2017
Season 3

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  Air Date: April 24, 2016
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: April 12, 2015
- tbd
  S2:E10. Two Days of the Condor
  Air Date: June 14, 2015
- tbd
  S2:E9. Binding Arbitration
  Air Date: June 7, 2015
- tbd
  S2:E8. White Hat/Black Hat
  Air Date: May 31, 2015
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  S2:E7. Adult Content
  Air Date: May 24, 2015
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  S2:E6. Homicide
  Air Date: May 17, 2015
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  S2:E5. Server Space
  Air Date: May 10, 2015
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  S2:E4. The Lady
  Air Date: May 3, 2015
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  S2:E3. Bad Money
  Air Date: April 26, 2015
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  S2:E2. Runaway Devaluation
  Air Date: April 19, 2015
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  S2:E1. Sand Hill Shuffle
  Air Date: April 12, 2015
Season 1

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  Air Date: April 6, 2014