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What are your reviews on silicon valley?
(The show)

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  • 5
    Bill gates said it's the closest to reality, also, the first 3 seasons are awesome, It's a great show overall.
  • 11
    Deceptively not a whole lot of silicon. 5/10.
  • 7
    I have been working in the startup field (in Europe) and it resonated a lot with my own experience.
    That being said, I didn't watch the last seasons. It felt like the show didn't have much to say near the end.
    I recommend it to anyone working in IT
  • 2
    Worth it :)
  • 4
    First 3ish seasons were the best, but the rest are still decent.

    Glad they ended it when they did instead of try and drag it out
  • 0
    Nice and interesting in the first two seasons. Then it becomes boring corporate bullshit.
  • 1
    First 2 seasons great, could have stopped there, alas they kept going and it became repetitive.
  • 1
    Started off really well and it is unique. Then, the predictive endings and cliffhanger style screenplays make it suck

    But, can't be missed. We don't get a lot of such shows
  • 0
    Hated it.
  • 0
  • 2
    @BlackSparrow There was too much second hand embarrassment for me to handle.
  • 1
    I enjoyed it, but figured it was really close to a better version of Big Bang Theory - that is: it was way more about awkwardness and nerdyness in general than about programming.

    The nail in the coffin was their Tabs VS Spaces joke.
    https://youtube.com/watch/...

    They obviously had no idea what tabs vs spaces is about as they made a scene where the one advocating for spaces sits there and presses the space bar 4 times for each indentation.

    That just made me sad.
    I actually think this skit will make some wannabe-programmers completely misinterpret the idea of what tabs vs spaces is all about and think that everyone who uses spaces MANUALLY PRESSES THE SPACEBAR.
  • 0
    On a positive note: I gotta say that SIlicon Valley actually changed my views on working for a big corporation like Google.

    At the time, I thought that working for Google, getting free lunches, going to big launch parties etc was the dream for most devs. So the fact that this show made a mockery out of all that was super interesting to me.

    But overall I think it got a bit stale as the seasons went on and not much changed. When I realized every season ended with them being back in their house I started to feel like the show structure wasn't much different to Friends or any other sitcom.
  • 0
    I watch them regularly, good show, good pacing, I will agree with what some of the others have said thus far, seasons 1-3ish were definitely the best, but the rest of the show is pretty legit.
  • 1
    It was fun and I've definitely met a bunch of people who are very much like certain characters in the show. The cringy sitcom stuff was a bit too much though, especially in the first few seasons.
  • 1
    Great show.

    TJ Miller being a creepy fuck really took the winds out of its sails tho in later seasons.

    I'm not 100% for cancel culture, but speaking as a middle aged white dude, if middle aged white dudes could stop ruining everything by being retarded creepy fucks that'd be cool.
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