Review: HBO's Silicon Valley - Businessweek

Strange days indeed

"Like any series that zeroes in on a subculture, there’s always the question of how much you need to know to get the jokes. Sure, it helps to have a working knowledge of people like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Eric Schmidt, who makes a cameo in the first episode, but it’s by no means necessary.

Maybe the best way to describe Silicon Valley is to keep it in the nerd vernacular and think of it not as a superior comedy, but as a great work of science fiction: A band of newcomers lands on a strange planet. The language, customs, and ethics are different from our world. Will our ragtag crew manage to survive this bewildering, sometimes hostile galaxy? When it’s not making you laugh, Silicon Valley is every bit as compelling as that time the Borg abducted Captain Picard from the Enterprise and turned him into Locutus. (Come on, you all know what I’m talking about.) You can’t wait to see what happens next."

Review: HBO's Silicon Valley - Businessweek