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Twitterpocalypse Now: Cormac McCarthy’s The Feed

November 20, 2022 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Features, News Tagged With: Elon Musk, Silicon Valley, social media, tech, Trump, Twitter

Silicon Valley Would Be a Lot Better if it Stopped Giving White Male Mediocrity So Many Passes

April 24, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Silicon Valley HBO

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, […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Amanda Crew, HBO, Kumail Nanjiani, Mike Judge, Silicon Valley, Television, Thomas Middleditch, TJ Miller

RIGBY…Silicon Valley Needs to Update Its Gender Representation

April 25, 2016 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Silicon Valley

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: comedy, HBO, Silicon Valley, Television

Complicated Games: Tech Gets Humanized in Silicon Valley and Halt and Catch Fire

June 3, 2014 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Halt and Catch Fire AMC

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 […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: AMC, Halt and Catch Fire, HBO, Silicon Valley, TV

TV Review: Silicon Valley 1.01 “Minimum Viable Product” (HBO)

April 7, 2014 By LoserCityBoss 1 Comment

Silicon Valley HBO Martin Starr Kumail Nanjiana

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 […]

Filed Under: News, Reviews Tagged With: HBO, Kumail Nanjiani, Martin Starr, Silicon Valley, Thomas Middleditch, TJ Miller, TV

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