[pessimizer]

So far, not so good. 60% of the funny is coming from the fact that Kumail Nanjiani is a great standup. It's Mike Judge, so I'm going to watch it all anyway, but if it were anyone else, it'd have 2 more episodes to get a lot better.

[a_e_k]

Amusingly, Kumail's college degree was in C.S. There was a time back in the day when he was entertaining the rest of us in the lab while typing Scheme or Java into XEmacs on the HP-UX machines. He has some honest nerd credit.

[nhebb]

Most of the bits made me grin, but Kumail was the only one who made me laugh. He's great on Portlandia too.

[poolunion]

If you like Kumail I'm pretty sure you will end up liking this show. I thought TJ Miller and Kumail were the funniest parts of the first episode. TJ's Hexadecimal joke got a big laugh from me. Also Andy Daly as the doctor was pretty great.

[toby]

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was really excited about this show (big fan of Mike Judge in general) but it feels like what someone would think SV was like if they based their entire impression on Techcrunch articles and 80s nerd / guru tropes.

[k-mcgrady]

>> "it feels like what someone would think SV was like if they based their entire impression on Techcrunch articles and 80s nerd / guru tropes."

It's not a documentary. The aim is to make people laugh while not straying too far from reality that it's completely unbelievable. I think they achieved that. Personally I didn't think I'd enjoy it at all but I found it kind of funny and will probably return for ep 2.

[toby]

Fair enough, I guess I was hoping for the satire to be a bit more original. It was just the first episode though so I have some faith that there will be some more subtle humor as well later on.

[afatc]

You didn't watch the same episode I did. TJ Miller is hilarious