‘Silicon Valley,’ S6E2 – a billion dollars to violate your principles

Re:‘Silicon Valley,’ S6E2 – a billion dollars to violate you... by minimaxir on Monday November 04, 2019 @05:58PM (#21447585)

As the article notes, it's weird Silicon Valley went with a Chilean VC instead of a more direct Saudi VC/Softbank analogue. Would that have been too on the nose?

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Re:‘Silicon Valley,’ S6E2 – a billion dollars to violate you... by Apocryphon on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:08PM (#21447683)

Perhaps they didn't have the right casting for such a character, and they would have to finesse the writing to avoid lazy tropes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel_Bad_Arabs

That said, this show once again unintentionally predicted current event relevance with its creative choices:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/world/americas/chile-prot...

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Re:‘Silicon Valley,’ S6E2 – a billion dollars to violate you... by ninth_ant on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:33PM (#21447931)

Usually on their show they derive much of their humour from being so “on the nose” where many folks don’t realize the farce on-screen actually happened in real life.

Using Saudis would have been very much part of their style.

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Re:‘Silicon Valley,’ S6E2 – a billion dollars to violate you... by semiotagonal on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:43PM (#21448015)

There's probably a pretty high risk of some future event involving the Saudis being something they wouldn't want to incorporate in their show.

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