Silicon Valley (TV Series) Minimum Viable Product (2014) User Reviews

Promising Show

[tboy17-551-494274 · 9/10 · 16 April 2014]

I was looking for some Light-weighted show and I thought of giving this show a try and I must say, I am not disappointed.

This guy Richard is a computer programmer living in an incubator with other programmers and working for a company Hooli. He makes an app pied-piper using an algorithm which compresses data.Realizing the potential of this algorithm,his boss Gavin Belson offers him a great deal of 10 million dollars and on the other hand he receives a deal of 200,000 dollars for 5 percent of his company from Peter Gregory if he starts one.

Now he has to go for the best deal-either to sell his idea or to start his own company.This show will bring more twists. Looking forward to more of it.

A Vast Amount of Potential

[cuddlesatusc · 8/10 · 21 February 2021]

The premise of this show is great-- a bunch of outcast programmers find their change of success with a powerful algorithm. Co-created by Mike Judge, it's full of the satire and varied characters you would expect. The pilot has already pulled me in and I'm pumped to know what's next.

Quite funny

[KkonaW · 8/10 · 15 June 2021]

First episode was great, some of the jokes are more subtle, some made me laugh out loud. They took the stereotypes and turned them into compelling characters that appeal not only to those in some specific technical fields but to a broader audience. That takes insights.

Btw the sampling theorem puts a limit on lossless compression (only certain type of band limited signals can be recovered with no quality loss) so it makes sense that our guy could do it for music, but our investors went and assumed it would work on other types of signals ("endless applications", "navigation data for self driving cars", "medical imagery" lol) and they wanted to throw millions of dollars into this guy's product before they even looked at his algorithm or had it evaluated by experts. That's bold :)

May our protagonist bypass the Nyquist rate on all types of data in the same way Terry Tao and Emmanuel Candes did with Compressed Sensing (mind you these are the guys who did not drop out of college :)) Gregory's facial expression when the word "college" is mentioned still makes me chuckle)

Mike Judge Creates another Gang of Underdogs

[uawiseguy2 · 8/10 · 12 February 2020]

The set-up - a group of misfit programmers at a Google-esque tech giant, Hooli, who take a chance on their super-fast search algorithm - is ripe with potential for satirical commentary. More like OFFICE SPACE than Mike Judge's animated projects, this pilot is immediately populated by diverse characters trapped in a nerdy workforce, whose passion to run their own lives makes them instant underdogs. It's undeniable that the combination of Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanjani, and T.J. Miller set this series on a firm bedrock of comedic intuition.