How Mike Judge and Co. Are Turning "Silicon Valley" Into the Next "Spinal Tap"
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#2So far, not so good. 60% of the funny is coming from the fact that Kumail Nanjiani is a great standup. It's Mike Judge, so I'm going to watch it all anyway, but if it were anyone else, it'd have 2 more episodes to get a lot better.
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#3so far i like the show.
also i have the weird feeling that i know at least 3 of the fictional characters in person.
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#4I was surprised that HBO allows you to watch the episode on YouTube. For those that haven't seen it, I think it's really good satire.
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#5I watched the first episode of it and I was not impressed. It wasn't really funny and it wasn't really exciting to watch.
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#6so far i like the show. also i have the weird feeling that i know at least 3 of the fictional characters in person.
I was chuckling a lot and telling my wife "I feel like I'm watching parts of Hacker News and Techcrunch come to life"
It's satire but doesn't seem too exaggerated (unfortunately?).
My favorite was the marketing bicycle meeting. It seems like it would be such a silicon valley type thing.
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#7So far, not so good. 60% of the funny is coming from the fact that Kumail Nanjiani is a great standup. It's Mike Judge, so I'm going to watch it all anyway, but if it were anyone else, it'd have 2 more episodes to get a lot better.
You didn't watch the same episode I did. TJ Miller is hilarious
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#8I love the concept and I thought a lot of the jokes were pretty funny but...
I'm not sure how they'll keep it funny over more than a few seasons, seems kind of like a one trick pony (and maybe that's just fine).
I trust Mike Judge, so I'll likely keep watching, but what made King of the Hill so magical was how he was able to show our changing world through the eyes of a simple propane and propane accessories salesman. Plenty of content there; likely not as much with SV to survive maybe a two season run.
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#9I was surprised that HBO allows you to watch the episode on YouTube. For those that haven't seen it, I think it's really good satire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvkmsI54ss4
Region restricted. Yet they wonder why people pirate content.
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#10It's definitely the best attempt yet. Remember that other show called something like "The Valley"? =/