Silicon Valley may have lost some momentum along with one of its stars, but Season 2 makes for enjoyable watching while the show works out the new kinks.
Just as he did with Idiocracy, Judge is offering up a pretty dire look at the future, to which many of us seem almost blind. He's doing it through the lens of satire.
The surprise of the show's second season, which has been stronger than its first, has increasingly been that in addition to being reliably funny, it somehow feels familiar as a workplace show, despite being so much a creature of its bro-intensive world.
