re: Silicon Valley was an underachieving mediocre show

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Every great idea works and then the whole thing craters, over and over. I get that it’s a comedy, but come on, man… let these guys get a win now and then

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Yeah, it’s formulaic on HBO where you can literally do anything. That’s why Eastbound & Down was so great. It didn’t keep to any formulas despite the source material being very narrow.

Is there really nobody in Hollywood that could write a comedy based on Silicon Valley? Really? Without resorting to the exact same formula each season?

Fred Armisen got like 9 seasons out of making fun of one city in the Northwest. But Silicon Valley…a million apps/people/tech and this is the end result. On a platform like HBO where there’s no censoring of jokes.

Crazy underperforming.