Silicon Valley

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Season 2
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 6, 2014
Season #: 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
86

Universal acclaim - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
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  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    Apr 13, 2015
    100
    Silicon Valley comes out of the gates as strong as its remarkable freshman season, skewering people, places, ideas and the pomposity of the entire tech world.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Jeff Jensen
    Apr 11, 2015
    100
    I love how smart and snide Silicon Valley is about ambition, and I love how the show’s actors imbue their geeky cut-outs with winsomely flawed humanity that allows us to care about them even as they undercut each other and themselves in their pursuit of success and significance.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    Apr 10, 2015
    100
    The first two episodes of the second Silicon Valley season are more than satisfying.
  5. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Apr 10, 2015
    90
    What at first seemed like another excuse to make fun of nerds and techie office culture instead revealed itself to be a near-perfect example of social satire.... Suzanne Cryer joins the cast as Laurie Bream, a robotically unemotional VC fund manager who steps into the void Peter Gregory left behind. She’s funny, but the show invests more energy and time in adding yet another brash boy-billionaire narcissist (Chris Diamantopoulos).
  6. Hitfix
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    Apr 11, 2015
    80
    Almost everything that made the show a treat a year ago is present for the new season.
  7. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
    Apr 10, 2015
    80
    There’s sort of a “fill-in” character for Gregory this season on whom I’m not yet sold after three episodes, but the saga of Pied Piper still promises to be one of the most interesting, and hysterical ones of the Spring.
  8. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Apr 9, 2015
    80
    Silicon Valley has impressively built into its storyline a real-life development that struck the show, and come away not only unbowed but with perhaps a renewed sense of vigor.
  9. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Chris Cabin
    Apr 13, 2015
    75
    The amiable, unlikely empathy and neuroses that separate the members of the Pied Piper family from the pack are the same elements that give this gleefully sardonic comedy its distinct, bittersweet tone.
  10. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Apr 13, 2015
    70
    This feels like a "two steps forward, one step back" storytelling strategy, not unlike what you'd seen in almost any other sitcom that has a rather slight story and needs to pad things out. If not for the droll and frequently profane byplay between Richard, Erlich, and housemates Gilfoyle (Martin Starr), Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani), and Jared (Zach Woods), Silicon Valley's paralyzed feeling might grate more and feel too obviously like an attempt to run out the show's storytelling clock until the writers can figure out what the next really good move is.

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#12 Best TV Season of 2015
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#94 Most Discussed TV Season of 2015

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User Score
8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 264 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 248 out of 264
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 264
  3. Negative: 8 out of 264
  1. marc5477
    Sep 27, 2015
    2
    And yet another portrayal of supposedly smart people, as dumb doorknobs. Its old and tiring. Every movie, every tv show, and even US cartoons,And yet another portrayal of supposedly smart people, as dumb doorknobs. Its old and tiring. Every movie, every tv show, and even US cartoons, portrays intelligence as stupid. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS IDIOT SAVANTS. They do not exist. There are times when someone stupid does something interesting by accident, but that is not what is happening in this show. Further, there is no such thing as a holly grail of lossless compression that is leagues better than other lossless compression designed for a specific data type... Seriously guys, get a clue. Its called the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics... we took it in high school.

    Anyway, this idiot savant is surrounded by extra crispy morons and somehow all the CEO's and execs are deep fried morons too. Talk about no respect whatsoever for anyone. To make matters worse, the comedy is dry, and very "high school." It felt like I was watching an Adam Sandler movie. Mind you, I like some of his movies, but you cant watch too many in succession because it gets old very fast and none of these actors are inherently funny. So overall... dry comedy, bad plots, horrid characters.... not a good show. Pass.

    -------WARNING GEEK STUFF FOLLOWS-----------

    Lossless compression has not gotten much better in the last 20 years for a reason, the reason is physics. Besides, file size pales in comparison to the speed at which hardware, and network speed increase over time. For instance, a movie file was around 600mb way back in the 90s for a decent rip/encode. Today it is still variable around 600mb to 2gb. But over the same period of time, hard drives have grown 100x fold. Network speed has gone from 56kps to over 10Gbps. Internet backbones are using 100Gb connections and 50+Tbps fiber is already in the works... CPU speed is exponentially faster. Compression is not the problem... fast compression is probably much more important to netflix and youtube than file size.    … Full Review »
  2. shadow47
    Apr 13, 2015
    10
    Watched the first episode and could not stop laughing. It is an absolutely brilliant show, so much so that I look forward to this on SundayWatched the first episode and could not stop laughing. It is an absolutely brilliant show, so much so that I look forward to this on Sunday than I do to Game of Thrones.… Full Review »
  3. JamesIrish68
    Sep 24, 2015
    9
    The out of the pan into the fire story lines are fun for now but I hope they don't overdo them in the future. The social awkwardness of theThe out of the pan into the fire story lines are fun for now but I hope they don't overdo them in the future. The social awkwardness of the nerd is very well done. Bachman is not aware enough to be self conscious but his crassness is just cringingly awkward to watch and all the funnier for it. Jared is quite brilliance in the background. Its parody of the real Silicon Valley and maybe not that much of a parody.… Full Review »
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