HBO© Silicon Valley

Jair Avilés

Anglo EP4 Listening Project

Saturday, October 4th, 2014

General Overview

• American Television Show (sitcom)
• Created by Mike Judge (Beavis & Buthead, King of the Hill, The Goode Family)
• Premiered on April 6th, 2014 on HBO©
• Just season 1 has been aired

Cast

• Thomas Middleditch as Richard Hendriks (Pied Piper)
• T. J. Miller as Erlich Bachman (Pied Piper)
• Zach Woods as Donald "Jared" Dunn (Pied Piper)
• Martin Starr as Bertram Gilfoyle (Pied Piper)
• Kumail Nanjiani as Dinesh Chugtai (Pied Piper)
• Christopher Evan Welch as Peter Gregory (Venture investor)
• Amanda Crew as Monica (Peter's secretary)
• Matt Ross as Gavin Belson (Hooli's CEO)

The aforementioned actors have built a career on stand-up comedies and comedy shows, with the exception of Amanda Crew and Matt Ross.

HBO - Silicon Valley Teaser Trailer (2014)

Plot Overview

1. Pied Piper. A music-player app that contains a revolutionary data-compress algorithm. The start-up name that developed the app
2. Hooli. The monster of the internet. His CEO Gavin Belson had tried to buy Pied Piper but failed (Google satire)
3. Peter Gregory. Buys 5% of Pied Piper and plays a menthor and actionist. Has a tough rivality with Gavin
4. First season could resume in a competition about the products and services innovation concerning data-compress between Pied Piper and Hooli

In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. A comedy partially inspired by Mike Judge's own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late 1980s.

Why did I choose this T.V. serie?

• Sarcasm about Silicon Valley's way of life
• Technology influence of daily life issues showed
• Stereotypes of geeks portraited
• Relevant, contemporany, hilarious, high-claimed plot