I find the whole show to be a lot like Andrew Garcia after his cover of Paula Abdul’s “Straight Up” on season nine of American Idol.
Such a stunning piece that people kept voting him through every week despite him never offering a performance at all close to this one. We just wanted something that touched that greatness again. The closest he came was his near-final performance of Chris Brown’s “Forever.”
Anyway, Silicon Valley’s dick joke in season one is like that. It was so brilliant that I keep coming back hoping for more like that, even though the otherwise fine show hasn’t done anything close to that one bit since then.
It still has its moments, but it really got stale by probably season 3. It’s still in the top 7 sitcoms every year it’s on, which probably says more about the overall quality of sitcoms than Silicon Valley. I think it would probably be fun to do an alternating binge of Silicon Valley and Mr. Inbetween. Intercutting the two shows might be really funny.
I don’t do gimmicks, but if I did I would make a gimmick specifically intended to attack one person by doing it related to their name. LIke it would be activeintrovert or something if I were attacking you.
On 2+2 I thought about making one called NotKeeed, abbreviation NK. It would be the only time you would root for NK vs. SK.
Go look around in About the Forums. The monthly costs are very low, ads bring in about $80 per month, there are some supporters on patreon, and Gregorio and zikzak have put in about $15,000 -$20,000 worth of free labor.
Is the only reason we don’t have an NBA China thread right now because no one can think of a good “The Manchurian [insert basketball reference here]” title?
This would be an interesting question, but “smart” is not the distinguishing adjective I’d use. Having read several books from each, they are, as far as I can tell, exactly as smart as one another.
Michael Lewis married Tabatha Soren, which makes him a lucky bastard, as if everything else didn’t.
Maybe Gladwell is the secretly evil version of Lewis, but I don’t think that’s accurate either. Gladwell is, I believe, the richer version of Lewis, because big corps love to give him money to speak, whereas Lewis could maybe go rogue. Maybe Lewis is the dangerous version of Gladwell.
Moneyball was such a good idea with such a perfectly American title that even a movie about a book about statistics did really well.
Anyway, I’m such a contrarian that I’ve gone beyond the Gladwell and Lewis are actually hacks takes to the actually both are really good take. Like the music fan I knew who swore by Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music.
Is there some reason we can’t have an American Stewart Lee? Like, is being a smart AND educated comedian just too much to try to pull off in America? Just not a market for that sort of thing because intellectuals are unAmerican, which is more or less why we have Trump.
