HBO's "Silicon Valley" (Season 5) - Page 4 - Blu-ray Forum

The Sovereign · 05-14-2018, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by RodChester

I’m bummed that this season was only eight episodes.

Glad to know that - I feel better now about how quickly we blasted through 10 weeks.

Unknown450 · 05-14-2018, 04:53 PM

Really enjoyed the finale and had some great laughs throughout the season. Glad its renewed, just sad that the seasons are shorter now.

kevin87 · 05-15-2018, 06:43 AM

Just watched all of season 5 tonight, better than it has been the past few seasons I thought. It'd be nice if they didn't pretty much do the same thing every finale, have it almost crash and burn and get saved at the last second though...

We got rid of TJ Miller so no Erlich around being annoying, but we got Jian-Yang being just as annoying... glad that didn't last as long.

MosHighDef · 05-15-2018, 07:44 AM

They made that Danesh guy’s character try wayyy to hard to be competitive and quirky. Buying a random coworker a Tesla was too much . What saves the show is Jared’s random dark outbursts .

“ you wanna die today mother****er” was hilarious.

The Sovereign · 05-15-2018, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by MosHighDef

What saves the show is Jared’s random dark outbursts .

“ you wanna die today mother****er” was hilarious.

Jared was clearly the MVP of this season.

Blu Lemmy · 05-15-2018, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by The Sovereign

Jared was clearly the MVP of this season.

I can get on board with that

mysticwaterfall · 05-17-2018, 01:53 AM

It was good to see them get a win and the last laugh on Gavin, but I still don't get how PP makes any money besides the coin. They don't sell ads, harvest user data, etc based on previous episodes. Do they charge developers to put there content on? Because that's the only thing I can think of.

fatediesel · 05-31-2019, 06:26 PM

HBO confirmed that the upcoming 6th season of Silicon Valley will be the final season.

Naiera · 05-31-2019, 06:33 PM

Seemed to be headed that way. It would suck for them to have to start over once again, given where they were when season 5 ended.

They really ought to let us buy the last two seasons on Blu-ray

Kev D · 05-31-2019, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Naiera

Seemed to be headed that way. It would suck for them to have to start over once again, given where they were when season 5 ended.

They really ought to let us buy the last two seasons on Blu-ray

I really want a complete series blu-ray set after season 6 so fingers crossed...

PeterTHX · 06-01-2019, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Naiera

They really ought to let us buy the last two seasons on Blu-ray

Well it sucks more that not enough people bought the Blu-rays to merit a Season 5 Blu-ray release.

Poya · 06-01-2019, 06:27 AM

Wish he could do Beavis & Butt-Head again after this. When it came back, it was better than it had ever been before. Maybe on YouTube TV if Viacom lets him. It makes no sense to put it on MTV, considering what has become of it now.

SillyG · 12-09-2019, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Poya

Wish he could do Beavis & Butt-Head again after this. When it came back, it was better than it had ever been before. Maybe on YouTube TV if Viacom lets him. It makes no sense to put it on MTV, considering what has become of it now.

I was so disappointed that it was such a brief run. It was so anti-climactic as there was so much ground that they could have covered, and it seemed like the series hadn't skipped a beat since it went off the air nearly 15 years prior (at the time), though it does seem to have played it a lot "safer" compared to many of the more controversial episodes from over the years.

On the plus side, we got a Blu-ray release out of it, but considering that all HD footage is 16:9 by default (there are no 4:3 flags for HD material, so the vertical black bars are part of the image itself), I wish that they had sourced HD (or at least widescreen) footage for the TV commentary and music video segments.

I didn't mind the fact that the show proper was in 4:3 (4:3 framing is sadly underappreciated these days), but the commentary segments should have been presented in 16:9.

I would kill for a proper complete series set (ideally rescanned from the original elements, warts and all), but that will probably never happen as Mike Judge seems ashamed of much of the show's run, similarly to how Matt Groening is ashamed of the 1987-1989 Tracey Ullman shorts of The Simpsons.

I don't understand why they don't rerelease the many, many VHS releases from over the years (many of which were exclusive to Australia), or compile them into a single boxset, if nothing else.

El Rey · 12-10-2019, 09:43 PM

Wasn't a bad series finale but nothing terribly memorable over any other episode of the show either.

ChadFL · 12-12-2019, 02:32 AM

Finally got around to the finale. It was... ok. Could have been worse, could have been much, much better. I figured for awhile now that they would have to fail in the end. The whole "build a new internet" thing got too ambitious to become reality.

Still, The finale created more questions than answers. Why is Laurie in prison? What crime crime Russ commit, and how/why was it never revealed? The Gavin change was strange... an (apparently gay) romance author? What happened to Richard's mini drive?

I thought the show would give some characters a deserved happy ending.
Instead, the only two characters who really came out ahead were the two biggest slackers/idiots - Jian Yang and Bighead. Richard ends up a Tethics professor... hah. Jared might be the most depressing. I suppose that is keeping in the show's humor, and rewarding failure with success, and vice versa. And good god... the writers and TJ Miller must HATE each other. They literally ended his character as ugly as South Park with Chef.

I do get the feeling the writers turned quite anti-technology as the show progressed. The show started very positive about how tech can save the world. In recent years it turned very anti-tech, culminating in the finale screed against the dangers of technology. Doesn't really jive with what I've seen.

I suppose the most underrated hero was John the server guy. He's the type of tech guy who keeps the IT world humming, even though nobody ever notices him.

panasonicst60 · 08-12-2023, 10:52 PM

This will probably never get a complete series release on Blu-ray..... I think I may just pick it up on crappy DVDs.

Fakejb · 08-17-2023, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by panasonicst60

This will probably never get a complete series release on Blu-ray..... I think I may just pick it up on crappy DVDs.

Yeah. I bit the bullet and got dvd version of the final season just so I can have the complete show.

panasonicst60 · 08-17-2023, 03:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Fakejb

Yeah. I bit the bullet and got dvd version of the final season just so I can have the complete show.

Yeah it's pretty unfortunate that I will probably be doing the same. I absolutely hate buying DVDs. Avoid it like the plague. I am so desperate that I thought about buying the bootleg Blu-rays on eBay.

PeterTHX · 08-17-2023, 07:12 PM

I bought it on Digital HD. Can't stand SD & DVDs anymore.

Jay Mammoth · 03-24-2025, 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by PeterTHX

I bought it on Digital HD. Can't stand SD & DVDs anymore.

Same.

05-14-2018, 04:53 PM	#2
Unknown450 Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Nov 2011 Location:USA 4K collection:197 Blu-ray collection:968 DVD collection:16 Trading Score:165	Really enjoyed the finale and had some great laughs throughout the season. Glad its renewed, just sad that the seasons are shorter now.

05-15-2018, 06:43 AM	#3
kevin87 Blu-ray Baron Top contributor Member since:Feb 2010 Location:Alabama 4K collection:283 Blu-ray collection:1136 DVD collection:46 MA collection:278 Digital collection:216 iTunes collection:1 Trading Score:144	Just watched all of season 5 tonight, better than it has been the past few seasons I thought. It'd be nice if they didn't pretty much do the same thing every finale, have it almost crash and burn and get saved at the last second though... We got rid of TJ Miller so no Erlich around being annoying, but we got Jian-Yang being just as annoying... glad that didn't last as long.

05-15-2018, 07:44 AM	#4
MosHighDef Banned Member since:Feb 2008 Location:socal 4K collection:38 Blu-ray collection:112 Blu-ray reviews:12	They made that Danesh guy’s character try wayyy to hard to be competitive and quirky. Buying a random coworker a Tesla was too much . What saves the show is Jared’s random dark outbursts . “ you wanna die today mother****er” was hilarious.

05-17-2018, 01:53 AM	#7
mysticwaterfall Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Oct 2013 Location:Right Behind You 4K collection:768 Blu-ray collection:2443 DVD collection:267 Trading Score:164	It was good to see them get a win and the last laugh on Gavin, but I still don't get how PP makes any money besides the coin. They don't sell ads, harvest user data, etc based on previous episodes. Do they charge developers to put there content on? Because that's the only thing I can think of.

05-31-2019, 06:26 PM	#8
fatediesel Blu-ray Count Member since:Nov 2007 Location:Iowa Blu-ray collection:410 Trading Score:47	HBO confirmed that the upcoming 6th season of Silicon Valley will be the final season.

05-31-2019, 06:33 PM	#9
Naiera Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Jun 2012 Location:Denmark Home Theater Gallery:2 Trading Score:25	Seemed to be headed that way. It would suck for them to have to start over once again, given where they were when season 5 ended. They really ought to let us buy the last two seasons on Blu-ray

06-01-2019, 06:27 AM	#12
Poya Blu-ray Baron Member since:Jun 2011 Location:NY, NY 4K collection:1 Blu-ray collection:2 Trading Score:12	Wish he could do Beavis & Butt-Head again after this. When it came back, it was better than it had ever been before. Maybe on YouTube TV if Viacom lets him. It makes no sense to put it on MTV, considering what has become of it now.

12-10-2019, 09:43 PM	#14
El Rey Blu-ray Knight Member since:Jan 2015 Location:CA 4K collection:239 Blu-ray collection:558 Trading Score:47	Wasn't a bad series finale but nothing terribly memorable over any other episode of the show either.

08-12-2023, 10:52 PM	#16
panasonicst60 Power Member Member since:Sep 2016 4K collection:297 Blu-ray collection:442 DVD collection:17 Trading Score:44	This will probably never get a complete series release on Blu-ray..... I think I may just pick it up on crappy DVDs.

08-17-2023, 07:12 PM	#19
PeterTHX Banned Top contributor Member since:Sep 2006 Blu-ray collection:563 Trading Score:14	I bought it on Digital HD. Can't stand SD & DVDs anymore.

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