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- HBO
- Apr 12, 2015
- HBO
- Apr 12, 2015
Summary The Mike Judge comedy follows the lives of software developers in the Silicon Valley (T. J. Miller, Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanjiani, Martin Starr, and Zach Woods) who try to develop a new software platform.
Created By: John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky
- HBO
- Apr 12, 2015
- HBO
- Apr 12, 2015
Summary The Mike Judge comedy follows the lives of software developers in the Silicon Valley (T. J. Miller, Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanjiani, Martin Starr, and Zach Woods) who try to develop a new software platform.
Created By: John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
86
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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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.
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.
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8.7
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 265 User Ratings
8.7
94% Positive
249 Ratings
249 Ratings
3% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
3% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
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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SEASON 2
What at first seemed like another excuse to make fun of nerds and techie office culture instead revealed itself to be a near-perfect example of social satire.... Suzanne Cryer joins the cast as Laurie Bream, a robotically unemotional VC fund manager who steps into the void Peter Gregory left behind. She’s funny, but the show invests more energy and time in adding yet another brash boy-billionaire narcissist (Chris Diamantopoulos).
Almost everything that made the show a treat a year ago is present for the new season.
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.
The amiable, unlikely empathy and neuroses that separate the members of the Pied Piper family from the pack are the same elements that give this gleefully sardonic comedy its distinct, bittersweet tone.
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.
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 for it. Jared is quite brilliance in the background. Its parody of the real Silicon Valley and maybe not that much of a parody.
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SEASON 2
For those who don't know Silicon Valley is a HBO Comedy based around the "Silicon Valley" Witch is where most internet/App companies are located. This show focuses on the lighter and darker sides of the lives of Coders/Developers. It follows a house of Coders and one of them who has created an compression algorithm that is flawless. They must manage investors and funds as well as the competition trying to copy their algorithm This all may sound extremely boring but Silicon Valley is anything but that, It is possibly the best comedy I've seen released by HBO. It is full of humor that Gamers/Nerds or anyone slightly knowledge in pop culture will love, it's totally self aware and is commenting on the current stance in Silicon Valley and how most companies like Snapchat,Instagram, Google Etc operate and get ****'s great to see a show like Silicon Valley can have a great story that progresses but still keep absolutely hilarious comedy and characters you get involved in. Anyone who is a fan of more vulgar/Nerdy humor should give Silicon Valley a chance, I'm sure you won't regret it.
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SEASON 2
Very very funny show. Had very high expectations after a brilliant first season and this season definitely matched them. Its smart and hilarious at the same time and the cast have such good chemistry. The characters are well cast and each episode has an great plot that carries along the overall story. Erlich Bachman is one of the funniest characters on TV at the moment and the plot takes unexpected turns throughout the season which keeps you intrigued and wanting more. Cant wait for season 3!
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SEASON 2
While there are some flat moments in terms of story progression, the second season of Silicon Valley is more funnier than ever and once again uses its comedic cast’s talent very well.
Actual Rating: 8.5/10
Pros:
+This season of Silicon Valley is more hilarious than the previous.
+The use of talent from the comedic cast is very well done.
+This season’s plot arcs gave us reasons to worry about the Pied Piper team.
Cons:
-There were a couple of flat moments that did not go wel in temrs of story progression during the middle of the season.
Favorite Episodes (not ranked):
Sand Hill Shuffle (E01)
Bad Money (E03)
The Lady (E04)
Server Space (E05)
Homicide (E06)
White Hat/Black Hat (E08)
Two Days of the Candor (E1
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SEASON 2
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 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.
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