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by hashtag
4436 days ago
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I don't take offense (nothing to be personal about, why should it) but I find the show pretty boring and awkwardly stupid if I was honest. I think it's extremely exaggerated but not in any way I personally find is good. It's not funny, acting seems awful, and it's nothing like Silicon Valley as I know it and I've lived here for almost a decade. To each his own I guess. I just stopped watching, it was too bland for my taste. |
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The show just seems like this really weird combination where on the one hand it tries to be ultra-realistic (hey look here's a TED talk; here's something else mentioned in the netsphere! <insert other random SV/HN/tech cultural reference/buzzwords just because>) but then you have that stupid premise about the company inventing some kind of magically-impossible compression algorithm. Plus I think it was far too quick to show it's cards; BIG COMPANY vs LITTLE COMPANY?!?! REALLY WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT?!?!
Maybe I don't get the humor either but I can't decide whether the show is actually trying to be a comedy or a drama. It definitely seems much more like a drama to me. I remember genuinely laughing more at parts of 'Pirates of Silicon Valley'.