I loved the reveal of why Big Head is called Big Head.

I loved the scene where Peter Gregory wants their business layout, I liked how Gregory doesn't make eye contact and has odd body language.

All,

First episode was a pretty good satire of lots of actual stuff that goes on in the startup world and overall pretty entertaining IMO. Second episode was just terrible.

Pokerg,

As NYC pointed out, stuff like nipalert is super common. Just go to any hackathon or demo day for plenty of much more ridiculous stuff.

And people with no money turn down $10M+ buyouts and raise funding instead all the time. It's a super common situation.

i know, right? i turned down 10 million 5 or 6 times already. probably most people in this thread have

"I'm not sitting this summer."

"Of course"

Made me lol

with this cast, i would have never guessed Big Head would be my favorite character. Martin Starr is playing the exact same character as Party Down, I guess that's his thing now.

Like this show a lot. needs more Amanda Crew

I liked the first ep a lot more. It seems like the first episode they were actually being funny and now they're like "ok, time to focus on driving the plot forward so that we have other places to go this season".

Like, I hated the scene with Richard going to Peter Gregory's office and getting **** on for...being the exact person Gregory should have known he was getting into business with (is Gregory supposed to be stupid/naive?), and then again for giving equity to the only person who believed in him enough to give him a place to live while he worked on his app (although thinking about this now, if Richard has a job at Hooli the whole time why does he need the Aviato guy?).

Big Head is also in Marc Maron's IFC show "Maron" (available on Netflix) and is pretty great in that show too.

can't bring myself to watch an autobiographical Louie clone about that douche

Or is he just "filling the ******* vacuum" described by the Aviato guy?

Nerd that can't make eye contact? Assburgers.

Was driving me crazy where I knew Richard from, turns out it was from a few Pete Holmes sketches.

I liked the second ep more due not feeling so mishmash of genres.

I thought the second ep was way more genre ambiguous. First ep was way more of a comedy, second was like half comedy half drama.

Not in the situation where the one guy is getting 90% of it and he has no investors. If you have seed investors or a small team, raising funding is certainly much more common than taking such a (relatively) small buyout. But that isn't the situation here.

Also I did botch the above hex math, which is funny considering upset I was that the show botched it also. I revise my above joke to "Everybody knows C times F is bleventy four".

But whatever, I liked episode 2 better. NipAlert was declared sexist and stupid. The bit where bighead was insulted by everybody was great. The equity debate, competition from a big company, business plan stuff was certainly done-up for the show but are all based in plausibility.

On the downside, the whole stripper thing was terrible and not funny. Not only is the joke not original, but the execution was also bad. Also there is no way that a company that just raised 200k would be considered "hot", though the other CEO caring so much about a small company for spite is unlikely but not impossible.

lol, I was reading on the app so no placeholders for ignored posts. I just saw a bunch of nit arguments spawning out of nowhere. Figured out pretty quickly there must be a ton of nunnehi posts I was skipping over. I've had him ignored since he AIDSed up the Homeland S1 thread with nonsensical conspiracy theories.

This show is awesome.

As far as this thread goes there is only one thing to say


/unsubscribe. So long nits

This

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Pg: you're definitely correct about the specifics there, I was just making the general point that it happens a lot without getting into details of that particular situation. The $10M acquisition offer would definitely be way more likely to happen in the context of weighing that option vs something like a $2-3M investment, not something like $200k.

D10: man nunnehi really does have a way with ootv threads

It was probably d10 who convinced me that Homeland was a face value piece of s*** (which actually made me start enjoying watching it eventually), so I thank him for that. His reward was that I haven't posted in a Homeland thread since season 1.

Way too many people spend way too much time thinking about me on here, and doing stuff like ignoring people is the ultimate "I'm a baby on the internet" type of thing. That's why a scroll bar was invented.

I'd say it's a muchhh better version of TBBT, but +1 to this, generally.

Can't tell if trying to be funny or actually serious.

Paging nunnehi.

RH,

Totally serious and true. See clarification a couple posts ago to pg. Normally that situation would occur with someone deciding between a 10M acquisition vs something like a 2-3M investment (not a lol 200k one), and it's a choice lots of people are presented with and often choose the investment route.

I feel like the show has much in common with Entourage. Especially episode 2 felt so much like an Entourage episode. Maybe I just haven't seen enough drama/comedy crossovers though. But the way they ended the episode especially was so much like Entourage did things in its early seasons and you can just tell that's how the whole season is going to go.


I find the show in general to be entertaining, but a bit too heavy on nerd stereotype jokes. If they fix that this could be a good show.