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Re: HBO: Silicon Valley
Posted: Fri December 13, 2019 6:22 pm
by Biff Pocoroba
I liked Middleditch in the Richard role but the supporting characters were extremely well cast.
The last season felt unneeded but as I mentioned before, the show was consistently enjoyable but never felt like one of my "must sees". Now that it's done I will probably forget about it quickly.
Whatever happened to TJ Miller? He seemed to disappear after he left the series.
Re: HBO: Silicon Valley
Posted: Fri December 13, 2019 6:53 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: HBO: Silicon Valley
Posted: Fri December 13, 2019 9:30 pm
by Mecca
tragabigzanda wrote:Biff Pocoroba wrote:
Whatever happened to TJ Miller? He seemed to disappear after he left the series.
All the stuff that came out after made it seem like he was a narcissist, an addict, and would often position himself as "above the material" or "too smart for conventional audiences" out of some weird fear-based defense mechanism. Like his entire post-firing interview circuit was variations on "I'm drunk right now and fuck anyone who doesn't get my creative genius." Funny how people like that don't get called back for more work.
He appeared to have a huge problem with Alec Berg.
Anyway, his comedy special kinda shed light on it. He brings up how he had a brain hemorrhage and was told he’d die from it, so he kinda said fuck it and wanted to do something else. His stand up is not great either. I remember long before he ever became more mainstream in his acting roles, he was shitting on Dane Cook popping in at one of the comedy clubs, but Miller’s brand of whacky yelling during his special reminded me of Dane Cook in a few ways
Re: HBO: Silicon Valley
Posted: Fri December 13, 2019 9:34 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: HBO: Silicon Valley
Posted: Sat December 14, 2019 1:59 am
by 96583UP
still haven't watched an episode of this
heard great things
maybe one day i will
just not totally sold yet that this industry is gonna take off
Re: HBO: Silicon Valley
Posted: Sat December 14, 2019 2:01 am
by Mecca
96583UP wrote:still haven't watched an episode of this
heard great things
maybe one day i will
just not totally sold yet that this industry is gonna take off
Have you been workshopping that joke for 5 years?
Re: HBO: Silicon Valley
Posted: Sat December 14, 2019 2:11 am
by 96583UP
what joke
Re: HBO: Silicon Valley
Posted: Sun November 28, 2021 8:07 pm
by VinylGuy
Currently watching s5. Its an ok show with a good cast and some cool jokes. Everything with Gavin is great.