"Silicon Valley" on HBO - Season 4

No responses? I love this show. Best comedy on TV right now.

Last season was bad and this season's only ep was dumb. It's lost its way. I'm out.

yuuuuuuum

Love the gag about the office with a view into the men's room.

I gave up mid season 3. I agree it felt like it was going nowhere. The plot isn't there even if the comedy is. It seems to be a show that needs a plot.

So is a "gipster" a gay hipster?

Season 3 was weak but the S4 premiere was pretty good.

Has anyone else seen "Search Party"? Thomas Middleditch has a couple of full frontal nude scenes in it.

Middleditch full frontal.

When is Jared coming out?

Is it wrong that I want Big Head inside me?

In Season 4 Episode 3 there is a scene in which the chick LEANS on her GROCERY CART.

The book Gilfoyle was reading:

Ok. Now i need to know what Peter Thiel's blood boys look like.

It was nice seeing Graham Rogers

I would love to watch Thomas Middleditch and Chris Hardwick suck and fuck like rabid ferrets.

Anyone know why TJ Miller is leaving??

Here is a blind item about it

[quote]It was nice seeing Graham Rogers

And can I get a hot tub?

TJ MIller's character is annoying and really doesn't have much of a purpose any more.

Will they introduce a new role? Or maybe Big head/Jian Yang/etc. will take over?

I love the obnoxious Bachman. He's hilarious and was responsible for many of the show's memorable moments. The way he sounds genuinely concerned when he asks Richard if he was crying, then rages over to the bratty kid, slaps him, throws his bike and threatens him for the Adderall was priceless.

They added Chris Diamontopoulos as a regular, but he's hardly been in the show at all this season. So maybe they'll bump up Russ Hanneman's role to take the place of the void left by Bachmann's departure.

Great season so far. Love the Jin Yang subplot and the Gavin Belson subplot.

Matt Ross hitting his stride way late in life provides hope for other actors.

r21, I agree. That scene with the adderall was priceless. I like what they've done with him this season as well. The show will suffer without him.

I see dead people.

I guess Matt has left the show for good.

The self important blowhard character played by Miller is a tired stock type. His leaving is no loss. I still think the show will suck even after he leaves, though.

They referenced Russ's gay grandpa (and his lover, Pedro) again this week!

Do we know how exactly Jared (under a different name) knew the blood boy?

So I assume Gavin Belson's character is gay like Peter Thiel and when the blood boy left him and threatened to write a tell-all book, he became utterly despondent. It's too bad his character is leaving, he would have been a great foil for Richard.

I think the reason SV this show is getting flat is because Richard and his company are not moving ahead. Richard always self-sabatoges and he and the boys end up in the same boat. They need to have some type of growth in the character and the storyline and how Richard and the guys deal with success for a change.

There's also this weird believability issue. If Richard actually builds what he wants to build, it'd literally change the world and we'd be looking at a quasi-sci-fi show then. So you just have to assume that they'll fail. Again.

For me, it's becoming like Walking Dead. After a few seasons, why bother watching anymore? The details may change, but the basic construct remains the same.

I agree with you R30 about the flatness of not moving anywhere. I guess that may be sort of the point, though.

I wish they would film more in Silicon Valley. There are so many strange and funny people and shops. Plus, Palo Alto is overrun and ruled by Palantir, CIA & NSA controlled/funded and owned by Peter Thiel, who is more crazy and vile than any character on Silicon Valley. Palantir is infiltrating the city planning and other committees and has taken over 1/4 of the retail space in the quaint downtown. They do not put their names on their businesses, and employees are not even allowed to know where other Palantir offices are.

So is that "limp biscuit" thing real? Does Sandy Duncan know about Wheat Thins being desecrated that way?

[quote]So is that "limp biscuit" thing real? Does Sandy Duncan know about Wheat Thins being desecrated that way?

In the UK, they call the game 'sticky biscuit'. Of course, a 'biscuit' there is what we call a 'cookie'. I have a friend who used to play it with his friends at prep school and used to actively try to lose.

Who's the actor who plays Richard's lawyer? He's hot.

Ben Feldman, currently starring on "Superstore" on NBC.

Thanks, R36.

So, um, Jared?

I sure hope these things happen sometime during the season:

Richard is going to pitch Pied Piper to someone, and it looks like he's going to be rich, rich, rich!

Something happens and the offer falls through, or Richard decides he doesn't want the person to buy Pied Piper

Ehrlich screws up

Dinesh chases women online

Guilfoyle deadpans a sardonic observation

Jared makes a weird proclamation about how dedicated he is to Richard

Bighead does something naive, then he is good natured about the outcome

Jian Yang insults Ehrlich

Monica steps in with an idea that can save Pied Piper and keep all the boys from utter ruination

Laurie says something in a jerking monotone that shows she does not understand linguistic nuancer

Jack does something stupid, then acts like a dick

Russ says some variation of "fuck" many times

Richard's doctor says something mean to him

nuancer

nuance

[quote] Palo Alto is overrun and ruled by Palantir, CIA & NSA controlled/funded and owned by Peter Thiel, who is more crazy and vile than any character on Silicon Valley.

All those geniuses ad none can figure out how to poison Thiel or get him into a "car accident"?

[quote] There's also this weird believability issue. If Richard actually builds what he wants to build, it'd literally change the world

Plus -- What ARE they building? It's Dropbox, it's a video service, it's going to be a new internet, it's a storage compressor, it's a box. Now it's something that caused cellphones to explode. Or is that a different thing?

I guess their slight deviation from the usual formula -- having Richard do bad things -- is this season's major whoop.

Fuck! Zach Woods and Thomas Middleditch look damn good here.

Spread those long legs for me, Zach!

MUCH better with facial hair!

I watched the first episode of Season 1 and wasn't enjoying it. Is it worth it to push through?

The Richard and Jared relationship is my favorite, though Jared's lines often sound like he works for Exposition Realty.

I would give it one more episode a try, r46.

Weren't TJ Miller and Thomas Middleditch a comedy duo long before SV? TJ sort of suggests that Thomas sided with the producer (against him) in the link further above.

TJ Miller was on WEHL tonight. When asked about his co-stars he said he still friendly with everyone and managed to say something nice about Martin, Kumali, and Zach. Not a word about Thomas Middleditch.

He also reiterated that he didn't see returning to the show ever.

Silicone Valley- that's what we call Melania's chest.

A fat co-star leaving a hit series? Two old friends on the outs because one of them sides with the producer?

Silicon Valley is the new Designing Women!

Season 5 trailer. Premieres Sunday, March 25.

Is Miller's career over?

Not just yet, R53.

Season 5! Season 5!

Looks like season 5 is just seasons 1,2,3,4 only without Erlich. So the whole series is recapped in R39, only minus Erlicht.

It’s tired. And I’m sick of Richard vomiting and talking about diarrhea. It was mildly gross/funny the first time, then it wasn’t.

I liked the first seasons a lot. Are they out of ideas already?

R53 and R54 It is now. (Over, Miller's career.)

Since no one has mentioned it on this thread, T.J. Miller was arrested today for calling in a fake bomb threat on a train to harass a woman he got pissed off at.

The first episode of this season was boring. I turned the second one off after about 2 minutes the first time, 20 the second and started to ffwd and then just couldn't be bothered.

This show is over now, innit?

Omg, this show s so over.

Now it’s Pied Piper coin?

I can’t even remember all the things Pied piper has been. A chat app, a songwriter/music app, a new internet, a data storage app that shares data across your devices, a data compressor.

They’ve beat this dead horse to mush.

r61

that happens all the time actually... I was involved with an app and it evolved a lot from the original idea

R61, the show is now actually over. The last episode was yesterday. I love that show and will really miss it. It was pretty good the past few episodes this season, and the finale was respectable.

The local Palo Alto paper published an entertaining article about Silicon Valley every Monday morning after it aired. Spoiler alerts abound, if you read at the link.

I know most of you hate it, but if you lived here and worked in the industry you would find it uncanny.