California requires two-party consent to recordings. The problem with the whole plot is that the reporter records the conversation without Richard’s knowledge within the confines of a private investment firm. Season 3: Episode 5, “The Empty Chair” Richard, still sour about not having his title as CEO restored, accidentally rants about his main investor Laurie Bream (Suzanne Cryer) to the lead reporter of a widely-read tech blog.
It just made Silicon Valley less compelling to watch. That’s a great satirical point to make about Silicon Valley. He’s just a lucky guy who got very rich and now believes he can do anything he wants. He’s not a mentor, and he’s not a shrewd investor. But while Diamantopoulos does his job to make Hanneman as repulsive as possible, it makes rooting for Pied Piper’s success much more difficult. Hanneman appears as a savior to Pied Piper, preventing the need to sell the company to Hooli and offering a way to contest the legal battle over intellectual property. Gawker lawsuit), but Season 2 brought in Russ Hanneman (Chris Diamantopoulos), a bracingly arrogant investor who made most of his money putting radio on the Internet (in case it wasn’t clear enough that he’s based on Mark Cuban). Peter Gregory was allegedly based on Peter Thiel (of the Hulk Hogan v. Season 2: Episode 3, “Bad Money” In the wake of Christopher Evan Welch’s tragic death, Silicon Valley needed to fill the void of billionaire characters modeled after actual entrepreneurs. (At least it attempts to rectify the problem of a terrible company logo.) But this episode, in which Erlich tries to convince a prominent convicted-felon-turned-graffiti-artist to design a new logo for Pied Piper, is surprisingly tone-deaf when dealing with two neighboring suburbs-wealthy Palo Alto, which contains Stanford University, and the more impoverished East Palo Alto. And that video, I cannot tell you how many times I've just cried watching it.Season 1: Episode 5, “Signaling Risk” Most of *Silicon Valley'*s detail-oriented approach to life in the Bay Area is so accurate it would make anyone who grew up in the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland tri-city area homesick. Last Sunday, Broadway performers took to the main area in Times Square, and sang "Sunday" from Sunday in the Park with George. This is a little bit of a happy, sad, bittersweet situation because we've all been mourning Stephen Sondheim's death, but also celebrating his absolute magical, fantastic legacy.
Neda Ulaby Broadway Performers Honor Stephen Sondheim It's a salacious gossip-fest involving the undergraduate careers of writers Bret Easton Ellis, Donna Tartt and Jonathan Lethem when they were all at Bennington College in Vermont and traces who they became and their cultural impact. This is a podcast that was seemingly engineered in a lab for Gen Xers like me. I was absolutely riveted by Once Upon a Time.at Bennington College. Once Upon A Time.at Bennington College, C13Originals Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to - and what you should check out this weekend. It's the longest running live action sitcom on TV. This week, NPR Music shared their picks for the best music of the year, ELLE banned fur from its pages and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia returned for its 15th season.
Peter, Zelda, Thomas and Eva in City of Ghosts on Netflix.