I love TV. On average I watch 30 different shows per season, binge watching a few because there’s just not enough time to watch them. I love police procedural and legal dramas (NCIS: Los Angeles, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods), Superhero fiction (The Flash, Gotham) and geeky shows (Scorpion, CSI:Cyber). Silicon Valley falls into the latter.
The first season I had a hard time staying interested. I felt as if it played too heavily on the nerd/geek stereotype: tech passionate, awkward, uncool and anti-social. I know a lot of nerds who do NOT fall into this stereotype, and feel as if Hollywood falls to this level of story telling too easily. So when season 1 ended, Silicon Valley fell to my “I’ll watch it when there’s nothing else on,” list.
When Season 2 started, it was 4 episodes into the season before I came back to it and I’m glad I did. While the stereotypes were still there, the emphasis wasn’t as prominent. And by the time the last episode aired, I was bitching at HBO for the short season (seriously, what is up with these 8-10 episode seasons?).
Season 3 is eight long months away and fans of the show, including me, are wanting the next chapter in the Pied Piper story. Enter Blake Ross, founder of Firefox, who, “couldn’t wait 8 more months for season 3 of Silicon Valley to start,” and wrote his own episode, picking up where Season 2 ended.
Titled, “Adult Supervision,” this is Blake’s first script, and despite his concern it is the roughest draft he’s ever shared, it’s hilarious! I was laughing pretty much the whole time and the characters’ voices were captured very well.
Check out the script: Adult Supervision
Binge watch Silicon Valley’s first two seasons on HBO NOW.
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