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Silicon Valley if possibly the funniest show I have seen, ever. The writing is thoughtful, with perfect comedic timing. The only word to describe the characters is awesome. They all work so well together that the comedy flows effortlessly.

I am surprised to see that this show is coming from HBO. I would expect a show like this from Netflix but not HBO. But I must commend them because they hit this one out the park. I look forward to what I hope will be a long lasting series with many more seasons to come.

You can see from my profile that I have been a member here for many years and have not ever written a single review, so you can be assured that what I say is true. If you haven't seen Silicon Valley you are missing out. Go check it out!

Deserves about a 8.7 . Really flows well , creates a good sense of accomplishment as the story progresses . Likeable characters , unpredictable funny jokes and moments (which is hard to find now a days ) . I also like that the episodes are 30 minutes , they keep it short enough to not make it too focussed on story yet long enough to not make it feel rushed and over filled with 1 liners. Overall a really easy watch as it doesn't require a lot of focus like other hbo shows , and it flows so easy that it becomes addictive as others have mentioned and has a certain likeablity that brings it together without force .

Silicon Valley is every bit as funny as everyone says it is. I just binge watched the entire series and it absolutely flew by. Silicon Valley is a fresh and funny original comedy that you can watch over and over again without getting bored. It will be as funny watching it for the third or fourth time as it was the first. It was created by Mike Judge, if you're familiar with his work you know how funny most of his shows are and this might be his best work yet. The reason this show works so well is because of the cast (Kumail Nanjani, Thomas Middleditch, T. J. Miller, Martin Starr, Zach Woods, Josh Brener). They have such great chemistry and make each other even funnier. If you're looking for a show to make you laugh out loud then look no further, I promise you won't be disappointed.

Silicon Valley was so much funnier that I originally thought it would be. I never watched it when it was originally on tv but recently I thought I'd finally give it a chance after hearing about how good it was for years. I'm so glad that I did! I just finished season 4 and can't wait for the final 2 seasons. I have to admit I didn't care for it that much after the first few episodes but stuck with it and it just continued to get better and better and before you know it you're invested in these characters and care what happens to them. It had a perfect cast that made this one of the funnier and more underrated tv shows HBO has ever created. Every episode will keep you laughing as much as the previous ones.

It could have been a 9 or even a 10, but it lacks of character development and tends to repeat itself. Don't get me wrong. The characters (especially the duo Gilfoyle-Dinesh) are extraordinary and well depicted, but they don't grow along the episodes. They are somehow glued to a repetitive story format. Richard is a magnet for problems and akward situations, Gilfoyle is the clever and cynical genius, Dinesh is Gilfoyle's perfect counterweight, Erlich has some rare lucid moments and becomes annoying by smoking from his pot, Jared is the good samaritan "having sex" ... Despite those two negative points, this is an intelligent warm tv-show with a gorgeous and humorous venture of an IT company In conclusion: If you have ever worked for an IT company you will definitely enyoj watching it.

Silicon Valley is a TV show that was much talked about even before it's debut on HBO. With the Silicon Valley now finding a Hollywood-like atmosphere in the way it's viewed, the entertainment industry's focus on Silicon Valley and it's unique lifestyle and culture is somewhat new and has yet to find it's equilibrium of representation between the reality of the innovation happening there and the bizarre, comedy ammunition that lies in some of the more eccentric aspects. Mike Judge's Silicon Valley is a damn good start. It's witty and scathing, and takes an sarcastic approach to it with an outsider's eye. Of course, Mike Judge is no outsider, having worked in Palo Alto during the late 80's, and his disdain for it's people and culture shows.

What makes the series work is that Judge is able to focus on all the small, ridiculous things that have become such an icon of the culture. From CEO's innovators with Christ-like followings, to the idea that the industry is somehow spearheaded by college dropouts, Judge wastes not time and has no problem putting every Silicon Valley cliché/reality on a pedestal for people to laugh at. As a native, I can say that the show does exaggerate a lot of things, but it also gets a lot right. If you've seen Judge's other work, then you will quickly see how well this fits in. With Beavis and Butthead, we got a critique about the stupidity and waste of a generation, with King of the Hill, we got a look at Judge's insight into Texas culture and the ideologies of an American culture trying to cope with the changes of a modern world, and here we have a completely new sub-culture that Judges dives head first into.

The show most certainly has it's falls, but I was hard pressed to find them as I was too busy laughing most of the time throughout. I may have a skewed view of the show, with me observing this through a filter of the real Silicon Valley, in all it's great and weirdness. But in general, this bites down hard in the most hilarious way on a truly unique and fairly bizarre place in the world. And you don't even have to know the technobabble being spit out. I do think HBO has another winner here.

I really don't like other HBO Comedies like Girls and Looking. I heard about this show and I'm a programmer myself so i thought i will give it a chance and I'm not disappointed.

The pilot was great and SMART, the lines were great and performances were all terrific.

All the characters were kind of cool and i'm looking forward to see them again. The characters are believable and may exist in the real world. I can't wait for next episodes. i recommend it to all of you. Watch it and i don't think you'll be disappointed.

VALAR JAVARIS (ALL MEN MUST CODE)

I just LOVE most of the characters. There is so much good stuff going on, but every episode ends the same. Here we go. EPISODE #? - EVERYTHING IS GOING GREAT WITH PIED PIPER. - EPISODE#?, 'after 40 minutes, the company is worth ????? million, and nothing could be better. - Until - 43 minutes, by some strange twist, everything has fallen apart, and the company has gone to the dogs. - AGAIN! How long can this story go on? It is just far to predictable. There are only ever two different scenarios for every episode. - Either the company and everyone is multi, multi millionaires, or they have not got a pot to piddle in.

I was a little skeptical about this show at first and went into with the impression that I would try it but it would lose my interest after an episode or two. This show so far has been a wonderful surprise. Unlike some comedies that create forced, awkward situations that are only funny to the recorded laugh track that plays, I have burst out laughing from a number of scenes that have aired in the few episodes so far. It is very original, smart, has a believable story and characters and has many funny moments with quite a few scenes that will catch you off guard and you will die laughing. At first this was just a show I was DVR'ing then watching at some point during the week maybe a few days later. However the last few episodes have been great and I have been watching live while it airs because it isn't a stupid comedy, it keeps you interested with a pretty good story.

For the first 3 seasons I watched the show for the jokes and to see what happened to Pied Piper. But after season 3, I watched for the jokes and I couldn't care less about Pied Piper. This is a series that out lived it's novelty and coasted to a finish on good writing. The show felt different after cutting TJ Miller (which was totally justified). I just felt like the show lost its anchor after TJ was booted from the show. Which again, I totally feel was justified. I loved this series but would I ever watch it again..... Probably not.

One of the tv show which showcases exact scenes from the tech world. Greatly written story about the real life tech world. All the storylines are perfect on how the techies face problems in real life and the issues the tech entrepreneurs would face in the real life. Fine performances by the actors mainly Middleditch. Along with the knowledge content in the story it also equally has nice comedy timing and humour.

The characters are great. It's going to be a good show. You know a show will be good when there are a number of good characters introduced in the first 1/2 hour. Very rarely do I laugh out loud but it happened a few times in the first episode.

I don't know a lot about tech, but you'll understand the humor in this. Guess it helps that I've been and have friends working in Silicon Valley... As long as you have an IT department in your business you'll be able to relate as well...

Looking forward to next week. Glad to see HBO is still putting out good shows.

When I first heard of the show, I wasn't very excited, thinking it would be just another lame show targeted towards any random dude, thus making it pointless.

However, as soon as I began watching the first episode, I became hooked. Being in a similar situation (minus the incubator) myself, the show was at the same time completely 'true' and hilarious. The characters are indeed the kinds you could find if you walked into some kind of startup event.

Even though some of the jokes are taken to an extreme, it's all pretty believable, since it pretty accurately depicts the world of technology, advertising and startups.. In its own cool way.

Needless to say, I watched the rest of the available episodes that night in quick succession and I was pleasantly surprised. It is genuinely a great show. Even though it's probably more popular around the startup scene, everyone should be able to appreciate the clever humor in the episodes.

There aren't many series or films that I rate 10/10. This is one of them.

One of the best shows I have ever seen, it's not cliche or cheesy like a lot of the shows, it's funny it's humorous it has a great casting and a great characters. Great storyline, great in everything! I just love it. It's just that it ended too soon, and the ending was not very satisfactory but it wasn't bad like GOT but it wasn't a really good ending.

I barely write reviews on IMDB, so this displays the effect this show had on me.

It has been by far my favourite TV comedy to date. The ending got me good and I was almost tearing. I laughed every episode and the only thing which stopped me from watching every episode non-stop was the lame human needs to eat and sleep.

I finished the season in 2 weeks and now I feel empty... I might rewatch it.

Truly a one of a kind, with snappy dialogue and great characters charting the pitfalls of start ups in the new tech boom. No one else does it like this.

Having said that, I found the bumbling idiocy of the main character Richard to be rather irritating and repetitive by the time Season 4 and 5 came around. The show revolves around the scrapes that he gets them into and it just gets a bit annoying after a while that he keeps making similar mistakes. Ricky Gervais has the right idea that's for sure...

The show starts really good: is funny, refreshing, it jokes about the Silicon Valley reality, by mocking really big personalities in the tech world like Steve Jobs (you can clearly see it on the season 1 poster), or big tech corporate companies such as Google and Amazon. I even liked all the nerdy and absurd situations that happen to this group of guys that are trying to rise in a very competitive market, some moments are hilarious.

Character work really good together, especially Gilfoyle and the indian Dinesh, that are always in competition against each other to determine which is the best developer. Zach Woods as Jared will be the key for the company to improve and starting to earn money, even if most of the time is underappreciated.

The show is very repetitive, this is the main issue, after 2 seasons jokes are more or less the same, and there is a clear pattern that repeats itself episode after episode. Richard (the CEO of the company) starts with the idea to create a platform. Later on this idea is abandoned to realize a completely different company and this happens many, many times during different seasons. You need to wait until the 5th season to see a more or less stable company with a proper office.

Without any doubt, this is a show that got too many seasons, they added useless plots and subplots to create more episodes. I am currently watching the sixth season (that should be the last one luckily), and I do not feel that excitement when a new episode is released, that I used to feel when HBO was airing first seasons.

I wish I could watch it all over again for the first time. Very funny, and underrated.

This series had great promise and fresh taste initially, but after only a few seasons, lost its inspiration and became repetitive and ultimately quite underwhelming. Still, it is often intelligent and respects its audience, but also becomes routine and often nonsensical. Could not survive the abandonment by T.J. Miller for more that one season, but he abandoned the show because already by the 3rd season, the series started to lose its considerable initial charm. In the end, the series served as an increasingly starving cash cow, and imploded by losing its point, but at least it was relatively quick if ugly death.

Silicon Valley - a US TV series running on HBO already in its 3rd season. The story is about a start up company founded by a guy named Richard who works with 2 other total nerd programmers, all living together in an "incubator" owned by Erlich who is a total pot head. There are also other peculiar and lovely characters in the series and altogether the writing is not only hilariously fantastic and well thought of, no, every episode ends with a twist that comes as a total new surprise - even for the advanced Silicon Valley watcher - that is the bliss of it - a series so well written and played that you'll always be looking forward to the next episode, forever.

The first 3 seasons of this show were great. Then the wheels fell off and I didn't laugh more than 5 times in all of the remaining seasons and finished watching the show out of pure obligation. Can't say I recommend watching the show after Erlich left and the death spiral began.

Working out of a shared house in San Francisco, Richard Hendricks and his team are working on creating revolutionary technology. But first he and his company, Pied Piper, need to navigate the maze of hurdles, back-stabbings and setbacks systemic to technology start-ups, some of which come from competitors but many come from trusted sources.

Great TV series. The comedy is fresh, uncompromising and original and often satirises the technology industry. Some great in-jokes and self-deprecating humour.

More than just a comedy, the series works as a drama too. The Pied Piper story arc could be many technology start-ups, showing their rise, their issues in getting off the ground, the attempts by established competition to make them fail, the technology problems, the innovative solutions, the breakthrough moments, the ever-present risk of failure.

Allied with this, the technology is very believable: the writers hired technology professors and other experts to help advise them on certain aspects of the plot.

This all said, the series does lose steam after about three seasons. The jokes become a bit repetitive and stale and the plot feels less original. Still reasonably interesting, but not as good as the earlier stuff.

Season ratings: S1 10/10, S2-3 9/10, S4-6: 7/10