What if HBO’s Silicon Valley had every last drop of charm wrung out of it? And what if every scene, instead of laughter, induced nausea? Given the sharp decline we’ve seen lately in McElhenney’s work, there was no way this was going to turn out any good. But that doesn’t make it any less disappointing to see how far he’s fallen.
"Only one thing puzzles me. You want to build our bridge, and at the same time you declare yourself for the principle of universal destruction. They’ll never let you build our bridge!"
"There is a word, a “name of fear,” which rouses terror in the heart of the vast educated majority of the English-speaking race. The most valiant will fly at the mere utterance of that word. The most broad-minded will put their backs up against it. The most rash will not dare to affront it. I myself have seen it empty buildings that had been full; and I know that it will scatter a crowd more quickly than a hose-pipe, hornets, or the rumour of plague. Even to murmur it is to incur solitude, probably disdain, and possibly starvation, as historical examples show. That word is “poetry.”"
