Given the many aspects of 'nerd culture', it's often misrepresented among the various forms of media; software developers aren't entirely Star Wars fanatics that are working low-level tech jobs and don't have girlfriends.
Silicon Valley successfully manages to remove that stereotype and inject its own, based loosely on similar events based on writer Mike Judge's life. The show focuses on the ambitious, yet unprepared creatives of Silicon Valley as they attempt to 'make the world a better place' with their startups; something every other person is also attempting within the valley.
The show follows Richard Hendricks, a college dropout set on developing his project, Pied Piper, a simple compression algorithm, and he finds his unexpected success rather quickly, offered either $10m for the company, or $200,000 and funding with him remaining as the CEO.
His newfound successes run into the inevitable struggles of startup culture; panicking over success, riches, and the various hurdles that face a company in its infancy. The comedy comes in through the realistic behaviours software engineers and the enthusiasm they have for their projects, enthusiasm that is not exactly met in the same light by all.
With each episode only 30 minutes long, the comedy and narrative feel neatly compiled, not too rushed, and without the comedy stretching too far into the bigger picture. It's a great watch that places the entire world of venture capitalists and ambitious startups in a world of satire and idiocy, all fully self-aware.
