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HBO comedy “Silicon Valley” – pilot script leaked
- davidtyleryork 14y agoIronically I think Silicon Valley will appreciate this show so much more than Bravo's attempt to glamorize it.
- catshirt 14y agoseems the opposite of ironic to me
- rdl 14y agoIt's slightly ironic that SV/tech people will enjoy watching something where they're somewhat mocked vs. fawned over, I think.
- catshirt 14y agofair point. but, op was contrasting HBOs version with Bravos version, both of which presumably do a great job of mocking and fawning. which suggests the proposed source of irony is elsewhere.
- danbmil99 14y agoI thought it was that Bravo failed by being "earnest/fawning", ie the opposite of cynical/ironic
- jayferd 14y agoI work in SV, and yeah, this is a good skewer.
- kqr2 14y agoSilicon Valley : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/ Director & writer is Mike Judge who is known for his animated series Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill as well as the classic Office Space. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/
- schiang 14y agoI might watch if it actually depicts life in SV. I just hope they don't go too crazy just to get higher ratings.
- raldi 14y agoIt's a fictional comedy, not a reality show.
- defrost 14y agoThere's nothing hilarious about 1 million tweets @3:00 am complaining about your server being down . . . of course if it's somebody elses server, well, that's comedy gold.
- jychang 14y agoYou know, if the show actually did have stuff like servers going dow, I am going to watch the shit out of it. Dammit, now I'm setting the bar too high in my head.
- rscale 14y agoMaybe they'll surprise you by having a bar empty out after CloudCo's North Virginia datacenter has an outage.
- YokoZar 14y agoThere's no need to emphasize fiction there; both shows are fake.
- MartinCron 14y agoYou imply that there is a distinction between those two terms. That's like saying, "it's a choreographed fight scene, not pro wrestling"
- philwelch 14y agoSure, the details are fictional, but there's a true-to-life quality that some comedies have.
- rdl 14y agoSV/startup culture does deserve some skewering. This will probably be awesome.
- nwh 14y agoThat page has a white "loading" overlay that I had to "display:none;" to see the content. I really hope people stop using them soon.
- lukeholder 14y agoyour probably using adblocker or ghostery. they dont show you the content unless you disable them. Scummy.
- look_lookatme 14y agoMight be accidental, can be a real pain if you develop media tech (and don't personally run adblock yourself).
- eob 14y agoFrom the article: TANDY: This is it? This is where all the tech billionaires decided to live? LANGDON: It can't be. (stops a passerby) Excuse me, is this Palo Alto? Hilarious :)
- philsnow 14y agoUnless they were standing outside a whole foods or so, I don't buy the existence of "passerby"
- jonursenbach 14y agoIt's television.
- mahyarm 14y agoWell downtown palo alto has passerbys.
- spullara 14y agoDowntown Palo Alto is very walkable with lots of pedestrian traffic.
- jrockway 14y agoI still haven't figured out which mountains I'm supposed to be viewing in Mountain View.
- w1ntermute 14y agoThat would be the Santa Cruz mountains, apparently.
- chops 14y agoHoly crap, the overdone continuous scrolling and animation makes that page almost useless. Scroll a little bit, and suddenly I'm jumped to a different part of the page. Don't scroll too far up, or it loads the previous article right in place, and doesn't keep you where you were. Then the top-bar seems to come down at random. What a frustrating example of overdoing an attempt at a "rich experience" thus hindering the user experience of trying to just read the goddamned article. I'll take the bullshit multipage approach that clickmongers use over this goofy and unintuitive interface.
- philwelch 14y agoYou know, one of the eternal downsides of a discussion site filled with web developers is that whenever you post a link, instead of discussing the actual content, the top-rated comment is far too often an angry criticism of the website design itself, followed by tangent about Javascript or something.
- lostlogin 14y agoAnd this is why I keep coming back! The off-topic stuff is great.
- smutticus 14y agoI consider this an eternal upside.
- RyanMcGreal 14y agoIn this case, the website design is so horrible as to render a discussion about the topic impossible, since the design has made it impossible to read the damn thing.
- mattquiros 14y agoThe script excerpts make for a good tease, but I generally have a bias for HBO shows anyway. I think this is going to be interesting, unlike Big Bang Theory which bored me within the first season.
- coopdog 14y agoBig Bang Theory is definitely not a show for geeks. Now Fringe, there's a show for geeks (warning the science may be slightly liberal at times)
- thejosh 14y agoI really like Fringe because most of the season finales could be the final season and I'll be OK with it. I actually thought the previous season was the final season.
- Osiris 14y ago2-hour series finale is tonight (Friday). The most disappointing thing is that it's one of the only Sci-Fi shows on TV right now, and I'm counting the SyFy channel.
- aswanson 14y agoI wish I could punch the writers of bbt in the face after a year of boxing/fitness training coupled with consuming the best steroids on the planet. And then doing the same to whoever that idiot is that portrays Sheldon.
- spullara 14y agoBig Bang theory is offensive.
- redhatter 14y agoHugh Mason from JFDI.Asia and Daniel of This Week in Asia said "startups is becoming more and more a spectator sport"
- danbmil99 14y agoDid they really say EAST Palo Alto? Maybe if they're squatting at IKEA.
- malloreon 14y agoThis sounds absolutely terrible. Hopefully they've made significant changes, but the stuff included in the OP's link fits with the story beats mentioned in my link below. From a review submitted to AICN: "If this script is unchanged as HBO begins production, it will be one of the worst pilots HBO has ever aired. The draft I read is dated mid October, so God willing Mike Judge (and other writers John Altschuler & Dave Krinsky) get their act together. Frankly, I had to re-read this twice to really take in just how God awful it is. Even shorter review: Mike Judge drives through Silicon Valley. Once. He then fills a script with uninteresting stereotypes. It is not funny. At all." "This isn't Office Space humor of reality/biting sarcasm. This isn't Idiocracy humor of the absurd. It's like a drive by concept, that in execution lacks any semblance of humor, because the world they've created isn't believable and the characters they've populated in it lack any semblance of reality." link to full review: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/60283 http://www.aintitcool.com/node/60283
- confluence 14y ago> because the world they've created isn't believable and the characters they've populated in it lack any semblance of reality Sounds like the Valley I know and love.
- nsxwolf 14y agoWho is "Nolan Night"? Is he qualified to review a script? Reading a script is hard. A lot of fantastic movies have screenplays that sound terrible if you don't have an ear for it (and I don't, that's how I know I'm right).
- commandar 14y agoI think it's somewhat interesting that he dedicates so much time ripping on the whole brogrammers thing as stupid without realizing it's a long-running SV in-joke.
- confluence 14y agoThat script just reminds me this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzNRUkl9BoY&list=PL88631EE962F32577&index=14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzNRUkl9BoY&list=PL88631E... How I love the Valley.
- imsofuture 14y agoNope!
- confluence 14y agoDoes anyone have a link to the actual leaked script? Can't seem to find on that page (it's scrolling all over the place :)
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- alanctgardner2 14y agoA few days ago someone linked to a test for media, where you had to see if two women have a conversation that isn't about men. I don't know why, but it really stuck with me, and then I was really disappointed when the two female characters in this script turned out to be gold diggers. I'm not trying to argue there should be more women in this show. I'm mostly just complaining about whoever planted this idea in my head. It may be good, but it's kind of ruining my enjoyment of pop culture
- Zarel 14y agoYou're referring to the Bechdel Test. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test
- aswanson 14y agoFuck hbo, comcast, et. al. they peaked in the 80s. seriously, what purpose do they serve? Curators of taste?
- beagle3 14y agoNot opining on how good it is: the script matters less than the execution. Have you ever watched Coupling? It is an extremely funny British sitcom (ignoring the 4th season, which is just "funny", but not as good as the first 3 seasons, with the exception of a couple of episodes). It was also successful in the US. So, an american version with american actors was made, as is customary (see e.g. The Office, Queer as Folk, Being Human, etc, etc, etc.) It had exactly the same texts for the expisodes I watched. It had reasonably good actors. But it just wasn't funny. I gave it the benefit of doubt. Then rewatched the british. Still funny. Then the american. Not funny. (Successful conversions like "the office" go their own way, rather than stay true to the original) The best script is useless without a matching excellent delivery. And a lesser script is still excellent with the right delivery. (Think about how Seinfeld would look if done by your other favorite comedians who are not Seinfeld/Louis-Dreyfus/Spadowski et al) I like Mike Judge's past work. I'm going to wait until I see it executed before I have an opinion.
- fatjokes 14y agoSome geeks look rapey.
- rnernento 14y agoCan we get a link to the whole script?
- pavel_lishin 14y agoDoesn't work very well with Ghostery, http://i.imgur.com/tsXZh.png http://i.imgur.com/tsXZh.png