Silicon Valley is Judge's first live-action series after his animated small-screen hits Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill, and that it's so funny is both gratifying and a relief.
It arrives fully formed and packed with smart observations that will appeal to anyone with even a passing interest technology, modern capitalism and geek culture.
Its clever take on its characters' inflated egos and ambitions will be familiar to people in all fields, as will its depiction of what happens to loyalty and friendship when money is at stake.
Judge and co-creators John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky are good at skewering the oblivious self-importance of techies, but they aren't quite as good at plotting.
There are signs that Silicon Valley will grow into something a bit more broad-based. [There] are inspired moments that show Silicon Valley has the potential [to] be much more than The Big Bang Theory with more tech jargon and cruder sex jokes.
When it's not making you laugh, Silicon Valley is every bit as compelling as that time the Borg abducted Captain Picard from the Enterprise and turned him into Locutus. (Come on, you all know what I'm talking about.)
His [Mike Judge] latest comedy series, zeroes in on the land of killer apps, broken dreams and social misfits. It's a beauty in addition to being a loosely related descendant of Office Space.