Arts & Entertainment Three Things Hulu's Bay Area-Inspired 'Woke' Gets Right — and Three Things It Doesn't Let’s be clear: “woke” is a terrible name for any television or internet show — especially right now. Nevertheless, here we are, reviewing Hulu’s complicated "Woke," which depicts the fictionalized (and modernized) version of the life and career of beloved Bay Area cartoonist Keith Knight.
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Sweet Sweet Romance Of Dinesh And Gilfoyle Silicon Valley Season Three may be over, but HBO has just given us this little trailer recapping the love between Dinesh and Gilfoyle, rom-com style. Theirs truly is the beating heart of the
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Ep. 3.10: 'The Elephant In The Room' Silicon Valley's first season ends with big success: A huge win for Pied Piper at TechCrunch Disrupt. Its second season ends with serious failure: Richard Hendricks is ousted from his position as CEO
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Ep. 3.8: 'Chief Evangelism Officer' In a New Yorker article about Silicon Valley published last week, readers learned that TJ Miller, who plays incubator owner and eccentric bong collector Erlich Bachmann, once met Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, more)
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Ep. 3.6: 'Founder Hounders' One really excellent element of Sunday's pitch-perfect episode of Silicon Valley was its fortuitous timing, airing after news this week that Paypal billionaire Peter Thiel had secretly funded a lawsuit against Gawker Media
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Ep. 3.5: Watch The Chair After its own game of thrones, Pied Piper's CEO chair sits empty, and Richard aims to prove himself the rightful heir to the company he founded. But to keep the business afloat, costs
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Ep. 3.3: 'Shawshank Redemption' Like show creator Mike Judge's Office Space, the latest episode of Silicon Valley borrows the plot points — and thrills — of a prison break movie, substituting, of course, the office for the prison in
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Ep. 3.1: 'Decacorn' Like the startup it follows, Silicon Valley has a high valuation. According to Deadline, the tech-skewering comedy from Office Space and Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge was renewed for a fourth season
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Silicon Valley' Season 3 Trailer Drops As we have before, SFist will be recapping HBO's absurdist look at our local tech community, Silicon Valley, when its third season begins on April 24th. In the new trailer, we see our
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Recap: Schrödinger's Arbitration In the second-to-last episode of Silicon Valley's second season, we open on minor character Nelson "Big Head" Bighetti who has a run-in with a pair brogrammers from Nucleus. At a bar, one of
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: Para-Paranoid In the 8th episode of the second season of HBO's Silicon Valley we open with Russ Hanneman, presumably still sulking since he's sunk below billionaire status. He's arrived at the Pied Piper house
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Recap: Failure = Success "Gentlemen of the Hooli board, and lady," CEO Gavin Belson opens a meeting to discuss Hooli's botched livestream. "To the ignorant or those in conventional industries, the recent Nucleus glitch may seem like
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: Kool-Aid In an adrenaline-fueled episode of Silicon Valley, we open with Nucleus' big debut, which, as we suspected, goes horribly awry. The live-streaming UFC-style fight that was supposed to promote Hooli's technology is buggy,
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Recap: Pre-Revenue "You're hot, you're sued, then the guy suing you offers you a buyout, am I right?" Enter billionaire Russ Hanneman (Chris Diamantopoulos), driving a bright orange McLaren, a kind character who's in the
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: Bros Disclose Fun fact. In Season 2's intro, a Sim City style cartoon of Silicon Valley, we've got a few new "easter eggs." The @Yahoo building got quite a makeover between Seasons 1 and 2
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Season 2 Premiere Recap: Series A As Silicon Valley enters its second season, the Emmy-nominated HBO show and the TechCrunch Disrupt-winning company it follows face related challenges. Can Richard Hendriks (Thomas Middleditch) reach, in the words of one investor,
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Monagamish Last night's Season 2 finale of Looking likely did not disappoint loyal fans of the show, and may have even impressed some late-arriving gay fans with its frank and genuinely realistic discussion of
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Julia Duffy Returns As Patrick's WASPy Mom There are a couple of big revelations in this week's episode of Looking, not the least of which is that Patrick's sister Megan (Kelli Garner) is kind of a mega-bitch. (But we already
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Patrick And Kevin Go To A Gaymer Prom It is genuinely nice to see Patrick happy, and not being neurotic about it, and finally able to enjoy his newly cemented relationship with Kevin and last night's episode, kind of like last
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: It's Finally All About Doris I think we can all agree by now that despite a premise that is supposed to revolve around three gay male characters, many of Looking's finest moments involve Doris (Lauren Weedman), and she
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Patrick's Halloween Meltdown The writers of this week's episode of HBO's Looking, the sixth in this ten-episode season, did a good job building some tension around a totally disastrous Halloween party that Patrick and Augustin decide
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Richie Is Definitely Maybe Back In The Picture We're at the midpoint of Season 2, and like I said back here, this is about where we should have been, plot-wise, by the end of Season 1. Patrick has completed a journey,
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Recap: Dom And Kevin Have Breakup/Non-Breakup Blues In the fourth episode of the new season we learn that Patrick was once a fat kid (nickname: Fatrick), Eddie is HIV-positive, and Lynn is never going to want to get serious with
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Episode Three: The Gang Goes To A Gay Rugby Match Everybody has hot sex in this week's episode of Looking, including Doris and her apparently well endowed new boyfriend Malik ("Did I do that?" she exclaims, seeing his member in the daylight. "Good
Arts & Entertainment 'Looking' Episode Two: Doris Gets A Boyfriend And Kevin Does A Boy Band Dance The second episode of the new season of Looking, "Looking for Results," opens with Patrick (Jonathan Groff) and Kevin (Russell Tovey) finally waking up together in a real bed. Or does it? It
