14 thoughts on “HBO’s “Silicon Valley” first episode online”
A rip-off from “Betas” down to the lame party thrown by the recently acquired startup.
Kind of interesting, but in the Hollywood “they’ll do it every time cliche” they show a character throwing up, to represent how up set he is, instead of relying on good acting. The episode seems to be driven by focus groups rather than the usual HBO innovation.
I enjoyed it but then again, my aim isn’t ever very high these days!
I thought it was a pretty solid episode, hitting most of its satirical marks dead-on. A couple of issues: No way would a tech company let one of its employees sell a side project to the highest bidder–when you’re hired by a Google or Apple, they stipulate in the contract that you cannot work on your own software project on the side. If you do, they OWN it, so it was fairly ludicrous to have the Google stand-in bidding on an algorithm one of its employees built on the side. Also, I didn’t grok the bit where the lead nerd disparages the two bully boys as “programmers.” Pot-kettle confusion there.
They were brogrammers, apparently. I’ve met sports and fitness junkies that wrote code, but they sure didn’t act like these two guys in the show did.
Actually pretty funny. Worth a watch.
Because real people never throw up when they’re nervous?
he called them brogrammers, not programmers. articles have been written about brogrammers.
I got a kick out of it. nice to see somebody poke fun at the self-delusion possessed by the Ted-talkers and “hoolis” of the tech world…
I only had time to skim cause I’m at work, but my first thought is that it seems cruel, sexist, and not very realistic. Another show about young guys who can’t get girls. Sort of like every teen movie ever.
is the valley tech scene not male-driven? theres a difference between being the show being sexist vs depicting actuality.
I made it about six minutes in….really bad writing and acting, was very surprised. Semi-pro.
Real people sometimes do toss it when they are upset. So it’s not so much unreal as uncommon
There are many people in the Valley besides programmers, and there are actually many women programmers. The show has one single female character (who is a hot business-lady type) and about a dozen males (who are all various shades of geeky and ugly). In other words, “Big Bang Theory but without the laughs,” and with a soupçon of cruelty added in (for “realism” I suppose).
I watched the whole episode last night and my main takeaway is the stunning unoriginality of it all. The writing is very cliche-driven and derivative.
A rip-off from “Betas” down to the lame party thrown by the recently acquired startup.
Kind of interesting, but in the Hollywood “they’ll do it every time cliche” they show a character throwing up, to represent how up set he is, instead of relying on good acting. The episode seems to be driven by focus groups rather than the usual HBO innovation.
I enjoyed it but then again, my aim isn’t ever very high these days!
I thought it was a pretty solid episode, hitting most of its satirical marks dead-on. A couple of issues: No way would a tech company let one of its employees sell a side project to the highest bidder–when you’re hired by a Google or Apple, they stipulate in the contract that you cannot work on your own software project on the side. If you do, they OWN it, so it was fairly ludicrous to have the Google stand-in bidding on an algorithm one of its employees built on the side. Also, I didn’t grok the bit where the lead nerd disparages the two bully boys as “programmers.” Pot-kettle confusion there.
They were brogrammers, apparently. I’ve met sports and fitness junkies that wrote code, but they sure didn’t act like these two guys in the show did.
Actually pretty funny. Worth a watch.
Because real people never throw up when they’re nervous?
he called them brogrammers, not programmers. articles have been written about brogrammers.
I got a kick out of it. nice to see somebody poke fun at the self-delusion possessed by the Ted-talkers and “hoolis” of the tech world…
I only had time to skim cause I’m at work, but my first thought is that it seems cruel, sexist, and not very realistic. Another show about young guys who can’t get girls. Sort of like every teen movie ever.
is the valley tech scene not male-driven? theres a difference between being the show being sexist vs depicting actuality.
I made it about six minutes in….really bad writing and acting, was very surprised. Semi-pro.
Real people sometimes do toss it when they are upset. So it’s not so much unreal as uncommon
There are many people in the Valley besides programmers, and there are actually many women programmers. The show has one single female character (who is a hot business-lady type) and about a dozen males (who are all various shades of geeky and ugly). In other words, “Big Bang Theory but without the laughs,” and with a soupçon of cruelty added in (for “realism” I suppose).
I watched the whole episode last night and my main takeaway is the stunning unoriginality of it all. The writing is very cliche-driven and derivative.