I'm seeing some review sites give this episode high marks and I just don't get it. Watched it twice last night and this show just painted itself into a corner that I don't think they can come out of without some ridiculous explanation that completes detaches it from all reality. They just committed 100k counts of criminal activity and even if they don't get arrested this would bankrupt them (not to mention they likely just lost the insurance company data that was moved to these exploding phones) plus make them even more radioactive in the valley.
Agreed and the problem with the producers belief that the show can't be successful if they are successful. Would have loved to see more Gavin and Richard working towards a ground breaking discovery and explode. Just see no way of them coming out of this.
I get what you guys are saying, but I guess the storyline isn't that important to me since it's a comedy. And you could probably tear apart the plot further if you knew the technology well enough.
But this season hasn't touched the last three seasons in my opinion with regards to comedy. If the show has the comedic value that the first three seasons sure. However we are going into season five. There has to be some endpoint or you get into the Entourage territory. The plot has to matter at some point, especially if you repeat the premise over and over again and the top tier comedy starts to fade.
Did they mention where Bighead has been? I feel like one episode they were giving him 5 minutes a show then next he just disappeared.
To me, the show has the same problems as 24. Each season had multiple "false finishes" where it looked like they were about to catch the big bad but you realized they're on episode 8, this guy is just basically a pawn or theres gonna be some sort of twist. Everytime Pied Piper is about to get rich or finally make the right deal you know something or someone is gonna fuck it up. I realize its a comedy but using the same tropes and structure each season leads to fatigue and kinda lessens the humor.
My guess is they freak out over everything we've talked about. Call it quits. Try to flee to Canada or something. Then by some hooli incompetence at the last minute everything gets blamed on Jack and Keenan, they both get released and will get dumped on. Somehow pied Piper gets off the hook but makes no gains.
I feel like there are plenty of story lines with them succeeding that could have been funny and creative. It almost seems lazy now with how predictable the "failures" are becoming. Who thought for a second the gathering of phones at Hooli Con was going to work?
Also don't get that the showrunners don't want them to succeed. Shit, they could even make them super successful at the beginning of a season and then lose it all and that would still be a good way to take things in a different direction.
Plot so cylical Also 'youuu son of a bitch' :tackle: with jared beating him with his shoe was awesome
Oh those wacky guys, saved by the third storyline in episode 8. This season started off just fine but it took a huge nose dive. I'm not really looking forward to next season that much.
Perhaps just me, but that really felt like a series finale instead of a season finale for the first ~25 minutes of the episode. With the resolution we got after that, kind of wish it had been.
Ooof at the douche chills coming off this interview but seems like no one likes Middleditch. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...ing-silicon-valley-was-like-a-breakup-1016573
Wow there's a whole lot going on in there. He's dead on about how cyclical it is and has fair criticisms. He also comes off as a whiny douche. I did enjoy the shots at Middleditch, though.
on the finale and on Miller's stand up special. Interesting article. Lots of shit going on. Seems like the writers know they're kinda fucked with him leaving. They basically begged him to stay on.
i thought tj miller's hbo special was not very good. i also hate gimmicky standup and him soaking himself with water repeatedly is exactly that.
Never really like Ehrlich that much and I've never seen TJ Miller do anything that would cause me to check for his special. Ok - I did kind of like his appearance in crashing. But otherwise...
btw how was the network running off of 30,000 smart fridges when they needed like 250k or whatever smart phones for it to work
"But I’m not sitting here saying, “'I need more lines. I’m not funny enough.' I’m not Thomas Middleditch."' Got damn.
TJ Miller comes off like a huge look at me douche in that interview. He tries to convince the interviewer and audience (and probably himself) that he is a good guy and humble by using a bit of self-deprecating humor, but it rings totally hollow to me.
My wife said they need to make Richard likeable and fast because he sucked this season.. Almost wonder if it's paralleling the same way Gavin changed.
In reality I would guess that hard drives in fridges carry much less than 32/64 gigs of storage space. They only need to run the software and have a small database.
Sepinwall touched on this in his review of the season/finale. Was pretty obvious that Richard was heading that way, but they never actually committed to it which is frustrating.
Imo he's missing the fact that Richard chooses to ignore the fact that Gavin gave him that patent. He is embracing the adversarial role, and in fact openly stating that he intends to be hostile to Hooli, which does reflect a bit of an evolution in the character. He's suggested that PP might be on the offensive, rather than merely defensive.
also ignoring the fact that smart fridges patching themselves en masse would never happen. normally i wouldn't care but this show has been too good with the technical stuff to just technobabble everything into working in a season finale.