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Previously on Silicon Valley: (No really, they wrote a "research paper". You can read it here. ) Silicon Valley is a workplace comedy of sorts from Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill creator Mike Judge. Judge's brand of smart but unapologetically crude humor and on point tech culture satire drew praise from critics and audiences alike last year, making the show an easy renew for HBO. Basically, if you like Office Space, odds are very good you'll like Silicon Valley. And the first season is only 8 episodes, all available on HBO Go. Give it a shot if you're on the fence. Alternatively, watch this scene and try not to laugh. Let's catch up with the main cast...  Thomas Middleditch as Richard Hendriks : When Richard inadvertently created the world's most efficient compression algorithm, he found himself in the driver's seat of a budding start-up. The first season had him facing various successes and failures and ultimately triumph at TechCrunch Disrupt. This season will deal with how he and his team handle their newfound success.  T. J. Miller as Erlich Bachman: Richard's obnoxious, egotistical landlord. Owns 10% of Pied Paper and makes sure everyone knows it. Will jerk off a room full of dicks if he has to.  Martin Starr as Bertram Gilfoyle: Pied Piper's resident Satanist and networking engineer. He's basically the same character Martin Starr plays in everything. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.  Kumail Nanjiani as Dinesh Chugtai: Pied Piper's Java programmer and Gilfoyle's usual partner in crime. Kumail Nanjiani is a must-follow on twitter.  Zach Woods as Donald "Jared" Dunn: Mild-mannered Head of Business Development at Pied Piper. Somehow manages to be both nicer and even creepier than Woods' character from The Office.  Amanda Crew as Monica: Personal Assistant to Pied Piper's main financier, Peter Gregory, and general consultant to Pied Piper. Mutual romantic interest developed between her and Richard, but had to be put on hold to maintain their professional relationship.  Matt Ross as Gavin Belson: CEO of Hooli, Pied Piper's main competitor. Is apparently even more dedicated to taking down Pied Piper in Season 2.  Josh Brener as Nelson "Big Head" Bighetti: Big Head was let go from Pied Piper after they realized he was a redundant member of the staff. Then Hooli foolishly gave him a lucrative contract, which he uses to sit around and do nothing. Hopefully they find something for him to do in Season 2, because they had trouble figuring out what to do with him in the first season. Sadly, Christopher Evan Welch passed away in December of 2013, despite having one of the show's breakout performances in S1. Joining the show to fill his shoes are Suzanne Cryer as Laurie Bream, the new head of Peter Gregory's company, and Chris Diamantopoulos as Russ Hannerman, a prospective investor in Pied Piper. Pied Piper's team will also be expanding, including Carla (Alice Wetterlund), their first female employee. The show received some light criticism for its male-heavy cast last year, and Mike Judge, to his credit, listened. Silicon Valley has the same timeslot as last year, Sunday nights at 10 Eastern, right after Game of Thrones.
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This should definitely be in the new thread: https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/586678680576925696
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Apr 11, 2015 23:41
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This show started off horrendous but did a total 360 and now is the best comedy on HBO so everyone creeping this thread should watch it.
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Apr 12, 2015 01:02
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The premiere is premiering
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Apr 13, 2015 02:59
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James from Spin City is alive!
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Apr 13, 2015 03:02
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God drat hippos. 
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Apr 13, 2015 03:07
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"Datageddon"
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Apr 13, 2015 03:09
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Peter Gregory... is dead.
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Apr 13, 2015 03:18
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The TV showing tweets (all two of them) at the funeral was a nice touch.
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Apr 13, 2015 03:31
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"Then you married poorly" killed me. I don't care for the new venture capitalist woman. Feels like she's doing a significantly-poorer take on the same sort of thing the previous guy did.
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Apr 13, 2015 03:36
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Glad this show is back.
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Apr 13, 2015 03:37
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Holy poo poo, it's Ronnie Gardocki! edit: "And if you don't fund us, you're a loving slut."
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Apr 13, 2015 03:37
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For some reason I couldn't stop thinking of Bill Hicks' famous Advertising bit when they were all regretting the '-geddon' overuse.
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Apr 13, 2015 03:52
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For anyone that doesn't listen to the Comedy Bang Bang postcast, three of guys from Silicon Valley were on it back at March 30th and it is AMAZING. Tomas Middleditch is hilarious, I would have never thought of him as being so funny but drat. http://www.earwolf.com/episode/a-silicon-valley-p-cast/
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Apr 13, 2015 04:01
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Someone should close the season 1 thread I thought it was the S2 thread this whole time. I loved the peter pictures they were awesome.
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Apr 13, 2015 04:11
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drat. That was a good episode. Erlich's negging had me dying. I like the Uber balloon on the intro. And did anyone figure out what Erlich's binary shirt said? e; It says "bitcoin" teen phone cutie fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Apr 13, 2015 |
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Apr 13, 2015 04:32
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The guy in the formal black funeral hoodie was great.
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Apr 13, 2015 04:37
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Grump posted:drat. That was a good episode. Urlich's negging had me dying. I like the Uber balloon on the intro. There was an alibaba sign on one of the buildings as well. Nice to see that they're updating that. Erlich's shirt said: 01000010 01101001 01110100 01100011 01101111 01101001 01101110 bitcoin
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Apr 13, 2015 04:43
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Apr 13, 2015 04:44
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withak posted:The guy in the formal black funeral hoodie was great. that was actually the CEO of Snapchat
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Apr 13, 2015 04:45
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text editor posted:that was actually the CEO of Snapchat What was the joke there? I didn't get it.
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Apr 13, 2015 05:06
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Great start to the season but Thomas Middleditch is still the biggest wet noodle on television and I hope we start to see some character progression from him soon, you can only mine a character for cringe comedy for so long.
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Apr 13, 2015 05:06
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Boris Galerkin posted:What was the joke there? I didn't get it. he was using the funeral to defend his company against equally petty insults from the eulogy before him
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Apr 13, 2015 05:11
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Boris Galerkin posted:What was the joke there? I didn't get it. Peter Gregory was not disappointed in Snapchat.
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Apr 13, 2015 05:11
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Boris Galerkin posted:What was the joke there? I didn't get it.
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Apr 13, 2015 05:17
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"One of you is the least attractive person I've ever seen...and I'm not going to say who" was the best moment for me. Also Run the Jewels in the credits = A+
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Apr 13, 2015 06:11
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Sent from my iPad posted:Peter Gregory is dead. ...yes. "Apparently there is a line, and I crossed it--the line between 12 and 15 million dollars! BA-BAM!"
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Apr 13, 2015 06:51
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Negging the VCs was some of the best writing that came out of the show yet.
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Apr 13, 2015 06:53
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Ernie. posted:Negging the VCs was some of the best writing that came out of the show yet. "He put his balls on the table" loving fantastic. Love this show.
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Apr 13, 2015 07:12
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Peter Gregory was not disappointed in this show. e: Silicon Valley S2 - Peter Gregory was not disappointed in this show. Get on it mods
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Apr 13, 2015 07:16
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Wow they found the perfect replacement for Peter Gregory. I loved her first scene it was loving hilarious. I'm really happy this show is back.
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Apr 13, 2015 08:59
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"I don't know about you people, but I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place, better than we do" is one of the best satirical lines against tech utopianism that I've ever heard.
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Apr 13, 2015 13:23
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"Oh my god, it's the Winklevoss twins! Do you know how many bitcoin they're worth?"
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Apr 13, 2015 13:25
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text editor posted:he was using the funeral to defend his company against equally petty insults from the eulogy before him Yeah but the insult just came out of nowhere so I was wondering if there was an inside startup world joke about Snapchat there that I'm not getting.
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Apr 13, 2015 13:46
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WarLocke posted:Peter Gregory was not disappointed in this show. WarLocke. Peter Gregory is dead.
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Apr 13, 2015 14:01
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Boris Galerkin posted:Yeah but the insult just came out of nowhere so I was wondering if there was an inside startup world joke about Snapchat there that I'm not getting. This might have been written back when Snapchat was catching a lot of flack because some third party app got hacked and a whole bunch of nude pictures got leaked. But yeah, afaik Snapchat is insanely baluated right now.
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Apr 13, 2015 14:04
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Best comedy on TV right now, as far as I am concerned.
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Apr 13, 2015 14:13
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Gorn Myson posted:"I don't know about you people, but I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place, better than we do" is one of the best satirical lines against tech utopianism that I've ever heard. Yeah they def nailed the inherent contradiction of utopianism by means of hypercapitalist corporations.
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Apr 13, 2015 14:27
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Cinara posted:For anyone that doesn't listen to the Comedy Bang Bang postcast, three of guys from Silicon Valley were on it back at March 30th and it is AMAZING. Tomas Middleditch is hilarious, I would have never thought of him as being so funny but drat. I was floored when I read on the Earwolf site that he's Joey Tortellini.
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I thought the episode was great but also kind of sad that the actor that played Peter Gregory passed away. His replacement though was loving terrible. Hated Hated Hated Petery Gregory's replacement.
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