Silicon Valley

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Season 2
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 6, 2014
Season #: 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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
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  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, 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 thingAnd 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.    … Expand

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#94 Most Discussed TV Season of 2015

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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
  1. 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.
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  2. 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.
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  3. 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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