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Silicon Valley - Season 3 of the hilarious Mike Judge comedy series - HBO Sundays

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SMG

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I'm guessing Bighead is going to get sued out the ass for talking about sensitive information form Hooli, question is; now that Bachman is partnered with him is he liable for the breach of contract as well?
 
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Armaly

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SMG said:
I'm guessing Bighead is going to get sued out the ass for talking about sensitive information form Hooli, question is; now that Bachman is partnered with him is he liable for the breach of contract as well?
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Yeah and his stake in PP should be on the line too.
 
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Alpende

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I liked the episode. Jared asking if Dinesh has ever seen a naked dead body was great, Jared is weird guy. Richard spewing shit against the reporter was funny too, even better when it was revealed she wasn't the PR chick.
 
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Alpende said:
I liked the episode. Jared asking if Dinesh has ever seen a naked dead body was great, Jared is weird guy. Richard spewing shit against the reporter was funny too, even better when it was revealed she wasn't the PR chick.
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I would have liked it if it wasn't painfully obvious...Richard saying he doesn't need directions was a dead giveaway lol
 
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I thought it was a pretty good episode! Nothing earth-shattering but I really liked how the episode had a sombre, emotive, happy ending. There's a quotation a few pages back from a panel saying this season is bummer after bummer and pardon the pun but that was bumming me out. Every episode something seemed to go wrong and it was getting rather tiring. It was nice to see Richard catch a break and see a happy ending for once as a result.

Not the strongest of episodes but still decent IMO. Roll on next week!
 
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- EW: Watch T.J. Miller hurl insults for nearly five minutes straight
The April 24 season premiere of Silicon Valley not only introduced a new man in charge at Pied Piper — Action Jack Barker — it begat one of TV’s best insult-comedy scenes of the year. Miffed that he wasn’t the one who was tapped to replace the fired Richard (Thomas Middleditch) as CEO of their start-up company, Erlich (T.J. Miller) sought out the new boss, and when Jack (Stephen Tobolowsky) raved that he’s “a big fan,” Erlich retorted: “Oh, really? Of what? Metamucil? Polio? The phonograph? A nice piece of fish? Segregated water fountains? Senior citizen discounts at Perkins Family restaurants? Erectile dysfunction because of corroded penile arteries? Deviled eggs as an entree?… Liking Ike?”

Yes, his slew of ageist insults lasted more than 20 seconds before Jack managed to win over Erlich with admiration for his work on Aviato. ( “My… Aviato?” “Is there any other Aviato?”) Of course, things soon turned sour as the seemingly reasonable Jack proved to be an a-hole, and his bullheaded focus on stock price over product and disrespect of Raviga managing partner Laurie Bream (Suzanne Cryer) led to his termination in the May 15 episode of HBO’s tech comedy.

If you were guessing that the Silicon Valley folks had quite a day filming those barbs, you don’t know the half of it. Or, actually, the tenth of it.

“If you saw the episode and you say, ‘There’s a lot of them!’, the script had probably twice as many,” executive producer Mike Judge tells EW. “And then T.J. came in with, oh my God, so many. That’s where T.J. lives, in those kind of things, and he’s so good at it.” Executive producer Alec Berg sums up the philosophy of shooting the scene like this: “You just shoot a ton of ‘em and sort out the winners in the edit.”

Miller’s wheels started churning from the moment he read them in the script. “I couldn’t stop laughing,” notes the actor. “I immediately started riffing and generating more quips to hurl. ‘Perkins Family restaurants’ is my favorite one, because it’s so Erlich to say the full name… A lot of them I came up with on the spot, and I can’t remember which ones necessarily, although I know ‘Liking Ike’ was there, and I thought an interesting choice for the final insult.”

After filming dozens upon dozens upon dozens of digs, the producers finally called for a ceasefire. “They actually had to stop us and say, ‘Listen, this continues to be funny, but we have way too much material,’” says Miller, no stranger to unleashing a string of colorful cut downs (See: Deadpool). “Once the writers and Mike and Stephen and I got started, it was difficult to stop. I love it because it was just a geyser of what it seems Erlich and myself are pretty proficient in: verbally eviscerating other people while remaining the biggest buffoon in the room.”

How did Tobolowsky hold up as Miller released a steady stream of invective? “Tobolowsky is a master,” says Miller. “I loved him in everything from Sneakers to Grifters, and he rarely broke. But when he was off-camera, he broke a couple times and that, of course, made me break. Few things are as complimentary as someone you admire cracking a smile… I also cracked up a couple times at the way Stephen said ‘Aviato’ the first time. It really was the first time anybody else has ever said it on the show and pronounced it like Erlich does. So ridiculous.”

The producers wound up with such an embarrassment of insult riches, it was difficult to choose which ones would make it into the episode. And believe it or not, they were concerned that the version of the scene that you saw wasn’t long enough. “I worried, ‘Are we getting to that joke where the joke is how long it’s going on?’” recalls Judge. “I wasn’t sure, because watching them shoot it, it went on forever.” Seconds Berg: “[The final scene] feels very short, if you’ve sat through reams of footage.”

And now it’s time for you to experience the full range of Erlich’s put-down prowess, too. EW asked Judge and Berg if they could assemble a supercut of the insult orgy, and they more than delivered the goods: It clocks in at four and a half minutes, with more than 75 geriatric put-downs like “Buying stocks in 1928,” “The collection and organization of stamps,” “Being wheeled into a sunny spot,” “Genesis the book, or Genesis the band, because I knew it wasn’t SEGA Genesis,” “King of the Hill,” and “Radio plays starring white people as both black and white people.”
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Enduin

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"Being wheeled into a sunny spot" was great. Wish that made the final cut.

Also, maybe a dumb question, but is it legal for the reporter to write an article about the things Richard said if he wasn't aware that she was a reporter?
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I was wondering this myself. Probably can, would assume it's more an unwritten rule than an actual law, but maybe it is in some places.

I have to say as much as I love this show I find the quality to be pretty lacking when it comes to the overall plot progression. It's better than S2 with it's endless looping world ending event and miracle that saves them only to stumble into another seemingly impossible obstacle, but it's still very clunky.

Watching this and Veep back to back it's such a dramatic gap in quality of the story writing. Everything in SV is so clunky and eye rolling. You can see every development from a mile away, while in Veep it's often surprising if not at least well crafted. It's just such a smoother experience that is far less reliant on completely unrealistic and over the top actions by the cast.
 
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Jack Scofield said:
"Being wheeled into a sunny spot" was great. Wish that made the final cut.

Also, maybe a dumb question, but is it legal for the reporter to write an article about the things Richard said if he wasn't aware that she was a reporter?
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In a world where Gawker exists, the reporter could definitely find someone who would publish the article and worry about the legal problems later.
 
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Jack Scofield said:
"Being wheeled into a sunny spot" was great. Wish that made the final cut.

Also, maybe a dumb question, but is it legal for the reporter to write an article about the things Richard said if he wasn't aware that she was a reporter?
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It would be.

Richard did not consent to being recorded. California is an all parties state.
 
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Yeah and his stake in PP should be on the line too.
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I thought he kept Pied Piper separated, Bighead even asked him about it.

Wild speculation:
what if Bachman ends up owing so much money to Hooli (because I doubt that Bighead still has 20 millions) he could be forced to sell his 10% of Pied Piper and seat in the board, this could be their first break with Richard.
 
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BlueTsunami

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When Elrich said 'We bought a blog' almost spit my beer

Blahahahahahaha @ Jared oh my god. THIS.GUY.FUCKS

Best callback ever
 
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-Pyromaniac-

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lol at tech bloggers getting shit on. It was so true.

Also Jared LOL...."Russ was right....this guy fucks"


"Jared, nice. Using that dick." hahaha
 
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fallengorn

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I knew Jared was going to be a ladies man. The "this guy fucks" callback was still delightful.

All the Dinesh failures with women is piling up. Dude needs a win.
 
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my dream of bighead becoming a billionaire is dwindling. He is the one character who should always fail upwards.
 
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Oh man I lost it when Richard brought up Emacs vs Vi.

Bee tee dubs, Richard is wrong on both accounts. You use Vim and ':set expandtab' to make tabs magically turn into spaces.
 
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h1nch

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Well if their goal was to get us to hate Richard even more, making him an Emacs guy was definitely the right move.

EDIT: the 8 steps joke at the end was fucking brilliant
 
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