Silicon Valley (2014–2019)
6/10
First 1/2 seasons are good and funny, but ends up to be a show with too many episodes
9 November 2019
The show starts really good: is funny, refreshing, it jokes about the Silicon Valley reality, by mocking really big personalities in the tech world like Steve Jobs (you can clearly see it on the season 1 poster), or big tech corporate companies such as Google and Amazon. I even liked all the nerdy and absurd situations that happen to this group of guys that are trying to rise in a very competitive market, some moments are hilarious.

Character work really good together, especially Gilfoyle and the indian Dinesh, that are always in competition against each other to determine which is the best developer. Zach Woods as Jared will be the key for the company to improve and starting to earn money, even if most of the time is underappreciated.

The show is very repetitive, this is the main issue, after 2 seasons jokes are more or less the same, and there is a clear pattern that repeats itself episode after episode. Richard (the CEO of the company) starts with the idea to create a platform. Later on this idea is abandoned to realize a completely different company and this happens many, many times during different seasons. You need to wait until the 5th season to see a more or less stable company with a proper office.

Without any doubt, this is a show that got too many seasons, they added useless plots and subplots to create more episodes. I am currently watching the sixth season (that should be the last one luckily), and I do not feel that excitement when a new episode is released, that I used to feel when HBO was airing first seasons.
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