‘Silicon Valley’ Review: Zach Woods Is Extraordinary, But Season 5 Can’t Keep Up With Him

This year’s poster for “Silicon Valley” Season 5 is appropriately prescient, but not in the intended fashion.

Showing a loading icon with a blurred show title in the background, the tagline says, “The future is now.” You can barely make out the message through the buffering sheen, but that’s more than can be said for the first three episodes of Season 5.

“Silicon Valley” is more like the icon than what’s behind it: It’s stuck in a loop, spinning its wheels.When it comes to character development — or any form of measurable progress, really —”Silicon Valley” has always specialized in kicking the can down the road.

Mike Judge’s HBO comedy can create chaos with the best of them, as the Pied Piper crew builds and extinguishes fires throughout the boom or bust tech industry with delightful frequency.

And, to be fair, part of the reason so much

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