Still watch it, and love it though. And super impressed that a Hollywood production finally understood Northern California. That never happens (see: The Social Network, Hackers, every Steve Jobs movie, etc.)
really underrated show.
The 'adventure addiction' scene, for example.
While in reality e.g. IQ score baselines keep getting adjusted to account for the fact that kids keep getting better and better scores as time goes on[0].
The world is not getting dumber and if it is there is no evidence for it and plenty against it.
The latter just feels cheap.
*with the occasional rule breaking exception
People keep saying that, but what it really that funny and original? I'll take e.g. MASH any day.
"Whoever is first to do something isn't likely to be the best at it, simply because everyone that comes after is building on their predecessors' work. Named after the sitcom Seinfeld, which many people won't watch any more because everything about it has been copied." https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...
I still find funny very manny pioneering shows -- heck, even back to Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Laurel and Hardy, and all kinds of 80s and even 70s sitcoms.
No, it's a bad show because it's badly written, cliche, and lowest common denominator humor, just with nerds as subjects instead of some regular families as per usual.
Big Bang Theory: Purposelessly inaccurate in ways that upset you.
Silicon Valley: Purposefully accurate in ways that upset you.
Also, Sneakers and The Net.
The more you rewatch it, the more you realize it knew exactly how over the top it was being, and is doing so with a wink and grin.
And there are far too many truely geeky Easter eggs in there to say it's oblivious. Technicolor rainbow, indeed.
how about "the pirates of silicon valley"? I feel it's _by far_ the best movie made involving his figure, likely because it came out earlier.
"AAAAaaaaaah! here is this completely benign part of the software development cycle that we are dramatizing because the sky is falling and our company won't survive!!!!!"
Every episode