Silicon Valley HBO Series

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last posted June 24, 2016, 12:55 p.m.

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Mixed feelings about last night's episode... I loved it, thought there were a lot of great moments. The douchebag lawyer meeting was pretty funny.

It did feel like there was a scene missing later in the show though. Erlich just showing up at Peter Gregory's office to help with the vision pitch at the end seemed a little too neat. I would have liked a scene that showed Erlich struggling with what he had to do, or with someone encouraging him to go to the meeting or something along those lines. I suppose it's OK to assume that he just had his own personal moment of reflection on it, but it would have been good to see him having to work a little more for a reason to go to the meeting to build the tension more so that the end was more satisfying.

Watching episode 4 of Veep immediately after was really interesting because the entire episode was based in silicon valley at a fictional company called Clovis. I thought the lampooning and comedic portrayal of SV that they did, while different, was almost as good as what Mike Judge and crew are doing.

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