The show has already been getting praise from industry luminaries like Elon Musk for how well it manages to capture what the real Silicon Valley is actually like. The producers worked hard for it, too, bringing in a Stanford professor and graduate student to come up with some of the show's fictional apps and software so they'd actually be semi-believable, and featuring a bunch of start-up CEOs in cameos (including Musk). Which is a damn sight better than the industry's been getting since, well, forever. Besides David Fincher's masterful film on the early days of Facebook, the most recent attempt to accurately portray the nerdy zeitgeist was the reality show Start-Ups: Silicon Valley - which did so terribly Bravo cancelled it after one season - and last year's awful Google-approved Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn vehicle The Internship which...was a film. Besides that, the most popular depiction of geeks on TV is on The Big Bang Theory, and that's not entirely flattering. Not that Silicon Valley is entirely flattering either, but then, that's not the point. It's true to life, and it's by showing us a pretty thoroughly-researched and accurate view of the nerd elite in LA that makes it not only believable and relatable but also hilarious.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
