Twitterpocalypse Now continues, with Kim O’Connor and Nick Hanover providing commentary on the collapse of Twitter in real time. You can read the first installment here at Loser City and for episode two, head over to Kim’s blog The Shallow Brigade. Nick Hanover: Well, Kim, it looks like the end has finally come. After playing chicken with […]
Silicon Valley Would Be a Lot Better if it Stopped Giving White Male Mediocrity So Many Passes
For all its early promise, Mike Judge’s HBO comedy Silicon Valley has struggled to find its footing in any meaningful way. The past three seasons of the show have more or less featured the same arc, with the perpetually overwhelmed start-up Pied Piper shooting themselves in the foot every time they approach some form of success, […]
RIGBY…Silicon Valley Needs to Update Its Gender Representation
For three years now I’ve been tuning in to Silicon Valley, enjoying its mix of clever writing and deft characterization. It’s not a perfect comedy by any means, but Silicon Valley is without a doubt one of Mike Judge’s better works and a welcome successor to the likes of King of the Hill. But for three years, I’ve also […]
Complicated Games: Tech Gets Humanized in Silicon Valley and Halt and Catch Fire
I grew up around computers. Not in the same “born with a smart phone in my hands” way the current generation has, I’m just old enough that when my dad forced us to get familiar with them as kids it was still a novelty. Mario taught me how to type, Oregon Trail taught me all […]
TV Review: Silicon Valley 1.01 “Minimum Viable Product” (HBO)
1.01 “Minimum Viable Product” When I caught the premier of Mike Judge’s new HBO series Silicon Valley at SXSW last month, I said it was one of “the most promising plot driven comedies to hit HBO in ages” and after watching the pilot debut on tv last night, I’d like to correct that statement: Silicon Valley is one of the most […]