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Silicon Valley is a funny show, I don't think many people will disagree. I'm a fan of dry humor so some of the stuff really gets to me and makes me laugh. I just can't get over how frustrating the show is to watch because of the plot and the story lines. It's the same thing over and over. They have a great idea/plan, one of them (Richard particularly) screws up royally for a stupid reason, they get in trouble, and magically they're saved from the trouble.

I'm only on the fourth season and I'm debating to stop watching it. I want to keep watching it to see something actually good happen to them for once but it never does. They always end up being the losers in the end. I know that keeping you pulled into a show is literally the point of it being made and to keep you watching, but jeez be a little crazy and let the protagonists win at least every other season or something. Really, just write the characters to stop making so many stupid career altering decisions.

This once great show is limping along without them.

it started really cringe inducing, but promising. funny most of the time, but they never get around. i get that its hard in the real world for a start up company to make it out there, but this show --- their business makes zero progress. and they lack work ethic, i mean i know its supposed to be a comedy but it looks as if they're not trying at all, they're smart--- really smart to be in this line of work -- but they have no ambition or common sense. i want to root for them really bad but they always manage to screw up every good opportunity life throws at them. it bugs the hell out of me!!!! Richard please be more responsible! You make the poorest decisions it seems as if you want your business to fail. :(

only my personal opinion.

Just watched the entire season 1. It certainly looks promising. I hope next season won't continue in a similar fashion to the big bang theory, where it got totally spoilt after the lead characters started dating and the scientific jokes died out.

The characters are all pretty good, plenty of room for development. Peter Gregory will be a huge loss for the show, but lets hope that the writers can sort it out.

I also like the house they are living in and the fact that there are many scenes outside the building, which gives it a more natural feeling.

Really looking forward to next season, please don't ruin it.

I'm only on ssn 1, ep 2, I've decided the show is funny and yet I'm not sure that I can get over how annoying TJ Miller is. I can't even say "TJ Millers character" since he isn't actually acting. He just spewing out annoying verbal diarrhea, case in point: watch Deadpool... same dude, same "witty" comebacks. Zach Woods and Thomas Middleditch are especially funny which proves you don't have to be over the top crude like TJ to be clever and reel in the laughs. If I can overcome my loathing of the ginger moron, I'll change my rating but so far we're down 4 starts for each of his limbs.

The attempts of humor, or whatever is being attempted there, perhaps to portray how people involved with IT and tech startups are so geeky, clumsy and lacking so much common sense (I have no problem with lacking people skills, it's ok to portray that).

What is so annoying:

• A lot of vommiting
• So much stupidity from people, and very awkward and stupid situationsj, all of that while not being funny.

• Very annoying talking quirks from the main character, Richard. I'm not an intolerant person, I believe, but he's too annoyingly awkward.

• The owner of the house, Erlich, is such a big idiot, so much annoyingly so.

• Then it's not enough annoying people in the show, comes Russ, the investor (of 5 million) who saves the day in ep. 3, just to bring more annoyance and stupidity.

No one gets irritated by how much annoying this show is? Didn't the show exagerated on the frequency and intensity of annoyance? I like the story up to the end of the 1st season, so I decided to watch the 1st episode of the 2nd season, which just emphasized how annoying and silly the show is. So I started to skip a lot of scenes and watch the Ep in like a 1/3 of the time. Still, so much non-sense, but not funny, informational, curious, or entartaining, just annoying. Did the same with ep 2 and 3 (Season 2, to remind), same experience, just a lot of not entertaining annoyance.

To give an example of a good taste in humor, there's the TV-show The IT Crowd, even counting the fact that they incorporate absurdity and dark humor. Sorry, I can't understand for the life in me why this show gets such a high score. Deserves a 7.0 at most.

Started off so, so good. Truly, deeply funny and interesting. As sure as gravity another show that becomes a caricature of itself after a couple great seasons. For me it was over the first time Erlich yelled Jin Yang with the camera on the house...and oh, pan out on the house while the viewer envisions what Erlich looks like screaming the name. Went from crafty, intelligent humor to sitcom in record time.

If I have nothing better to do, I'll watch it. It's better than most series out there.

It also distinctly lacks female programmers. Is it really that bad in Silicon Valley? It just seem somewhat belittling to females.

I'm a female programmer and I code better and faster than all the people on my team. Guys make up only HALF of the dev team. I'm also the team lead (from both a technical and managing aspect).

I'm not "fighting for female rights", whatever the hell that is. I couldn't care less about what's between someone's legs.

Regardless of gender, how would you feel being treated as a sexual object of interest, rather than a mind to be respected? That's the only thing that bothers me.

I didn't even make it through the first season before I couldn't stand how pathetic and unmanly the main character Richard is! His stupid faces and soft demeanor become too much to handle... he appears to have a learning disabliity!

I think I'll pass on the rest of the "great" 9 star series!? No f'n way... 🙄

TJ Miller is the only good part but apparently he isn't even kept on board later in the series...

First thing, it is nicely copied from the book of 'Elon Musk' by Ashlee Vance. You read the book and you would know this series is total adaptation of it. I saw series first and then read book (no connection), then I found whole lot of similarity. That is why this series seemed good as it also provided whole lot of inside information, could be presumed as hard work or research well done. Also actors suck, but hats off to director. In isolation, this series is all fun.