Get Excited for Silicon Valley

For those of you who haven't experienced HBO's newest triumph: Silicon Valley, you're missing out. It's about a group of programmers trying to navigate their creation through the jungle of bicycle meetings and nerd rage that is the California computer scene. Created by the man behind King of the Hill: Mike Judge, this show looks like one of the most promising new comedies on air. Its freshman season ended last month, and boasted great ratings and rave reviews from all but a few tech magazine critics (who were annoyed by the misuse of the hexadecimal times tables. Seriously).

The main reason Sillicon Valley is so good is its cast. T. J. Miller, Thomas Middleditch, Zach Woods, Martin Starr, and Kumail Nanjiani fill out an excellent core group. Together they have years of stand-up comedy experience, and a ton of great appearances on screen. Their combined credits include: In the Loop (the British precursor to Veep), Freaks and Geeks (gone too soon), and Portlandia (weird but brilliant).  

T. J. Miller plays the soon-to-be-legendary character Erlich Bachmann (great name right?). He's been flitting around the acting scene for a while (see She's Out of My League), but other than SV, he's best as a comic. Watch Silicon Valley if you think this is hilarious as I do. If you don't think it's hilarious, watch SV anyway.

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