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

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Cornballer

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Bitanator said:
When he yells he spits on one of the engineers haha, I'm sure that a part in him leaving.
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Just noticed that now:

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smokeymicpot

smokeymicpot

Beat EviLore at pool.
demon said:
Are they really friends though? Honestly they just seem like coworkers who get on each other's nerves.
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I think they are spending so much time together and basically living together. They bounce off each other so well like an amazing friendship.
 
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Belfast said:
Was it just me or did it feel like there was some subtext when Gilfoyle's girlfriend said hi to Dinesh over the video chat? Considering the "open" nature of their relationship perhaps they are setting up Dinesh sleeping with his girlfriend?
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I doubt it, she is most likely playing off their previous encounter which he thought she was wanting to have sex with him. By saying hi to him she was bringing that back up to make him feel uncomfortable and poke fun, Dinesh stays losing
 
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Great read. Check it out - they talk at length about the research that goes into the show and there are a bunch of hilarious anecdotes.

- The New Yorker: How "Silicon Valley" Nails Silicon Valley
During one visit to Google’s headquarters, in Mountain View, about six writers sat in a conference room with Astro Teller, the head of GoogleX, who wore a midi ring and kept his long hair in a ponytail. “Most of our research meetings are fun, but this one was uncomfortable,” Kemper told me. GoogleX is the company’s “moonshot factory,” devoted to projects, such as self-driving cars, that are difficult to build but might have monumental impact. Hooli, a multibillion-dollar company on “Silicon Valley,” bears a singular resemblance to Google. (The Google founder Larry Page, in Fortune: “We’d like to have a bigger impact on the world by doing more things.” Hooli’s C.E.O., in season two: “I don’t want to live in a world where someone makes the world a better place better than we do.”) The previous season, Hooli had launched HooliXYZ, its own “moonshot factory,” whose experiments were slapstick absurdities: monkeys who use bionic arms to masturbate; powerful cannons for launching potatoes across a room. “He claimed he hadn’t seen the show, and then he referred many times to specific things that had happened on the show,” Kemper said. “His message was, ‘We don’t do stupid things here. We do things that actually are going to change the world, whether you choose to make fun of that or not.’ ” (Teller could not be reached for comment.)

Teller ended the meeting by standing up in a huff, but his attempt at a dramatic exit was marred by the fact that he was wearing Rollerblades. He wobbled to the door in silence. “Then there was this awkward moment of him fumbling with his I.D. badge, trying to get the door to open,” Kemper said. “It felt like it lasted an hour. We were all trying not to laugh. Even while it was happening, I knew we were all thinking the same thing: Can we use this?” In the end, the joke was deemed “too hacky to use on the show.”
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The first public screening of “Silicon Valley” took place in Redwood City in 2014, with dozens of tech luminaries in attendance. At an after-party, while caterers passed trays of hors d’oeuvres, Elon Musk delivered a negative review to a group of people, including a reporter from Recode: “Most startups are a soap opera, but not that kind of soap opera.”

A “Silicon Valley” writer later told me, “The more self-important these people are, the more likely they are to elide the difference between a sitcom and a documentary about their lives.” But the writers seem to want to have it both ways: when they get something right, they brag about the show’s verisimilitude, but when they don’t they mock anyone who would mistake a comedy for facts.

“Some Valley big shots have no idea how to react to the show,” Miller told me. “They can’t decide whether to be offended or flattered. And they’re mystified by the fact that actors have a kind of celebrity that they will never have—there’s no rhyme or reason to it, but that’s the way it is, and it kills them.” Miller met Musk at the after-party in Redwood City. “I think he was thrown by the fact that I wasn’t being sycophantic—which I couldn’t be, because I didn’t realize who he was at the time. He said, ‘I have some advice for your show,’ and I went, ‘No thanks, we don’t need any advice,’ which threw him even more. And then, while we’re talking, some woman comes up and says ‘Can I have a picture?’ and he starts to pose—it was kinda sad, honestly—and instead she hands the camera to him and starts to pose with me. It was, like, Sorry, dude, I know you’re a big deal—and, in his case, he actually is a big deal—but I’m the guy from ‘Yogi Bear 3-D,’ and apparently that’s who she wants a picture with.”
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Cornballer said:
Great read. Check it out - they talk at length about the research that goes into the show and there are a bunch of hilarious anecdotes.

- The New Yorker: How "Silicon Valley" Nails Silicon Valley
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Teller ended the meeting by standing up in a huff, but his attempt at a dramatic exit was marred by the fact that he was wearing Rollerblades. He wobbled to the door in silence. “Then there was this awkward moment of him fumbling with his I.D. badge, trying to get the door to open,” Kemper said. “It felt like it lasted an hour. We were all trying not to laugh. Even while it was happening, I knew we were all thinking the same thing: Can we use this?” In the end, the joke was deemed “too hacky to use on the show.”
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Please tell me someone, somewhere is sitting on security footage of this and just waiting for the necessary job security to be able to release it.
 
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In the last three days I re watched the whole show up to the newest ep;
this show really is amazing, from the very start it knew what it was in tone and focus, the only thing it seems the writers adjusted on is removing the spite and jealously from Bighead.
The best thing Judge has ever made even over King of the Hill.


Cornballer said:
Great read. Check it out - they talk at length about the research that goes into the show and there are a bunch of hilarious anecdotes.
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The angry guy in roller blades walking away is too good not be used in the show one day.
 
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Morrigan Stark

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Lautaro said:
I wonder if the app tracking was only a plot device for last episode. It would be pretty tragic that they forgot to remove it after the launch. People worried about being spied on could damage their reputation more than a bad UI.
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Huh? All they need to do is track the IP of the usage log, which is done on most platforms (including this forum) for security reasons.
 
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New episode tonight:
Bachman's Earning's Over-Ride

Erlich struggles to come clean to Richard; Richard must make a difficult choice; Dinesh and Gilfoyle are at odds over Jared's new Pied Piper apparel; Gavin faces major life changes.
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It's Russsssssssssssssssssssssss

that whole conversation with Russ was hilarious.

"that could be useful....if we need a precog...analy...in a way"
 
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demon

I don't mean to alarm you but you have dogs on your face
Head so far up his own ass he can see the future.

God I love this show. It's the greatest.
 
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Slacker

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Great episode, but the preview for next week:
The return of the Focus Group Guy? And the Pied Piper version of Clippy? YES!
 
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DorkLord54

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That meeting between
Gavin and Jack
and the seeming
tanking of Pied Piper upon release
make it seem like they're foreshadowing that
Jack Barker and Gavin are actually going to get their revenge on Pied Piper by the last episode of the season, especially since Hooli likely doesn't give a shit if they're just selling a box as long as they can make money off of it
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barik

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Great episode, Erlich in the photoshoot killed me, as did every scene involving that fucking jacket. Also a Barker/Belson collaboration could be a great enemy for the end of this season, or the 4th season.

I would like to see Dinesh win just once, or have him come out on top at the end of the show. Kumail is great at playing the guy who gets shit on, but I hope they don't take it too far and have him as the character who just loses the entire time.
 
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