Quintet Cast In HBO Pilot ‘Silicon Valley’

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• Still remember Angela Trimbur from when she was a waitress at The Standard hotel. It’s great to see her succeed!

  Comment by Anonymous — Friday February 8, 2013 @ 9:54pm PST  Reply to this post

• Angela trimbur is funny,smartand beatiful,i would watch her do anything

  Comment by tim denham — Saturday February 9, 2013 @ 12:25am PST  Reply to this post

• Yayyyyy for Zach Woods!

  Comment by Zach Attack — Saturday February 9, 2013 @ 9:56am PST  Reply to this post

• I live and work in the Silicon Valley, and would welcome a show if it can be somewhat realistic of its portrayal of life and work here and the people of this area. Look, I like entertaining shows, and I know that to make them entertaining they have to ‘stretch the truth a bit’. But the bottom line is a great deal of the work is done in this Valley by engineers, and many are of either Asian or Indian descent, male and female. If the casting of this show is geared towards the hiring of a fair percentage of Asian and Indian actors, terrific. If not, that’s okay I guess, but the show won’t really be about Silicon Valley in that case. If that’s the producers’ intent, I’m fine with that – fiction is good too.

  There was another limited run series (on Bravo?) recently called Start-Up, produced by Randi Zuckerberg. Randi is smart and a terrific person, and it was a nice show I suppose, but the show was not realistic – a bunch of former models trying to get venture capital money from rich white guys. Entertaining? Sure, for a while. Interesting and realistic? Well, since HBO is behind this pilot endeavor, I’m hoping for something better – we’ll see.

  There was one line in the description of this HBO pilot that caught my attention and made me laugh – maybe that was the intent, maybe not:

  “Crew will play Monica, head of operations for Gregory who is his human touch. Smart and highly competent, by Silicon Valley standards she is downright beautiful.”

  Ouch – by Silicon Valley standards she is downright beautiful – what does that mean? We have low standards? I live and work here, but I have and do travel to Southern California and the Hollywood area as much as I can, and love both areas and the people of both areas; and yes, I do see a difference in the ‘standards’ of beauty from one area and the other – both in the men and women, not just the women. If you are looking for ‘Hollywood level’ beautiful people, frankly, Silicon Valley isn’t the place to look. But people aren’t looking for that here – not the serious people who are driven by the work they do. There’s a different kind of battle going on here in the Silicon Valley, and it this HBO pilot can capture that competitive battle of egos, brains and talent, then indeed, HBO may have a hit on their hands.

  The Silicon Valley is not the San Fernando Valley – engineers (both male and female) are not going to be confused for fashion models. They write code – those are the people driving this Valley right now (from San Jose up to San Francisco and all points in/around/between – the extended ‘Valley’). Let’s hope this new HBO show can articulate that reality, at least to some extent while also trying to make the show entertaining, which is no easy task.

  Comment by Live and work in Silicon Valley — Sunday February 10, 2013 @ 10:17pm PST  Reply to this post