Man, what a perfectly infuriating poster!
Five seasons in, Silicon Valley is settling into, let's face it, old age. And I thought it really started to show that age this season. Forget the loss of T.J. Miller - how long can a show about a Silicon Valley start-up realistically last without making that start-up either grow or die? So on one hand it was nice to see the show sort of acknowledge this and give Pied Piper an actual workforce of actual dozens of people in an actual office somewhere. But on the other, yeah, I do think the series has been losing steam and running out of meaningful ways for its characters to interact. Kumail Nanjiani, for instance, is coming off a breakout year that included an Oscar nomination - what a shame that his character Dinesh had absolutely nothing to do this season other than become a Tesla fanboy!
Look, this is still a funny show made by funny people, and it's not that I found Season 5 to be bad, by any stretch. Just a little stale, I guess. The show's coming back for at least one more season, and recent chatter says it could go for several more. In theory, it easily could - California's tech bubble remains as ripe for parody as ever! - but even the sharpest knives grow dull after a while, and there's no telling when this particular well will just run dry.
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