Silicon Valley

[Insidious Von]

Mike Judge has come a long way since Beavis and Butthead.

This show is brilliantly written. I devoured S1 like a beef and truffles lasagna (if you've had a piece, you'll know what I mean). It's about a brilliant computer programmer attempting to launch his company Pied Pieter. Except for TJ Miller and Matt Ross the rest of the cast are unknown to me. Miller plays Pied Peiper's pitchman. He is a comic with impeccable timing possibly the heir to Louis CK's legacy.

 

[Insidious Von]

Matt Ross plays Pied Peiper's nemesis Gavin Belson, who wants to do to the company what Microsoft did to Netspace. Ross recently wrote and directed the critically lauded Captain Fantastic. Not sure how long he'll be with the show since he's a white hot commodity. But even if he didn't do all that, his immortality is already assured.

 

[TheShadow]

Love this show!
Season 4 starts April 23.
IMO.....Miller is just damned annoying most of the time.

 

[Insidious Von]

TheShadow, it's all in the perspective of the beholder. Without Miller, the show would be just a bunch of neurotic geeks. A techno-Seinfeld without George Costanza. I think he's hysterical.

Matt Ross is working on his next film called Tomorrow and Tomorrow. It's a sci-fi film about a man who investigates how his home town got wiped out. So far no one has been cast, I hope he brings Viggo back.

 

[t.o.leafs.fan]

Mike Judge has come a long way since Beavis and Butthead.

Beavis and Butthead was comedic gold!

 

[Insidious Von]

Agreed couldn't stop laughing to them.

I'm surprised Matt Ross is still in this series, writing and directing is a full time job. Didn't think he'd show up on S3.

My observation on Erlich Bachmann (TJ Miller), he's one of the best characters on this show. He has talent but he's a slacker. However his wits are sharper than the workaholic geeks around him. In the business world that counts heavily. Now I'm wondering if Canadian lass Amanda Crew (Monica) becomes the new CEO of Pied Piper?

 

[TheShadow]

It was bugging me as to where I had just seen a lot of Ross.
Then I remembered I had just binged 'Magic City' and he was the D.A.
He was OK in that role.
It's a shame the series was ended!