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Silicon Valley (2014-)

Remember those nerds in highschool? Those spotty bespectacled kids who preferred books and computers and fantasy roleplaying games to kicking a ball about and being popular? The ones who were always into weird things that no-one else had ever heard of? The ones usually harried by their peers and adults alike because they stood out like a broken thumb in a handshake convention?

I do. I was one of them. And now look at all those little freaks go. They're damn well taking over the world.

Inventing the internet has a lot to do with it, of course. Kids like that helped develop the internet that we all know so well today. These days, everyone's playing with the geeks. Digital culture is so prevalent now that we've even got TV shows revolving around geeks and their strange goings-on. Like the brilliant Silicon Valley, a comedy satire about young underdog code developers taking on the tech-giants of our day (or at least plausible spoofs of tech-giants). A show that's also light and funny enough to reach beyond the obvious audience of techies and the geek-curious.

If you've ever seen the movie Office Space, you might have some idea of what to expect, since Silicon Valley is the latest offering from writer/director, Mike Judge of Beavis and Butt-Head fame. Which is why Silicon Valley is a little like an updated 21st Century version of Office Space, though set in the heart of the vibrant and often ridiculous tech industry.

Silicon Valley's sharp and witty scripts are full of satire without shoving it in anyone's faces. Some of the performances are savvy and brilliant, including many of the supporting roles - like Christopher Evan Welch, playing Peter Gregory, the brilliantly eccentric autistic genius VC (who sadly passed away during filming of the first season), and the ever-striving billionaire Gavin Belson, embracing a Steve Jobs tech-messiah-complex destined by his own ego to conquer the digital world for its own good.

Throw in an always-curious-mix of weird happenings and curve-ball plots, and you find yourself confronted with some seriously compulsive viewing.

At half an hour long per episode, with between 8-10 episodes per season, you can easily find yourself watching a whole season in a night. Quirky, understated and cleverly funny, Silicon Valley can be a hard show to switch off.

The first 4 seasons of Silicon Valley are available to watch now from all the usual sources.

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