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The Review
Silicon Valley is the most technically literate comedy ever made. Mike Judge created a startup satire so accurate that actual tech founders have said the show gave them anxiety flashbacks. Thomas Middleditch's Richard Hendricks and T.J. Miller's Erlich Bachman anchor an ensemble that captures the absurdity, arrogance, and accidental genius of the Bay Area startup ecosystem with surgical precision.
Fun Fact
HBO hired actual Stanford computer scientists as consultants, and the 'middle-out compression' algorithm from the show was later developed into a real, functional compression method by researchers.
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