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Anyone know why the show is ending? It's one of the few that I genuinely enjoy each season and am very disappointed to see this year to be the finale.

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It started getting pretty formulaic, and some of the characters changed in ways that made no sense, Richard being the main one. Early on, he wasn't OK with paid users padding the usage metrics for Pied Piper and completely ruined Bachman's fundraising, but then like 2 seasons later he's totally OK installing software on everyone's phones at a tech conference? Totally inconsistent character development.

TJ Miller leaving was another huge setback for them, he really was the perfect foil for all of the characters around him.

I personally believe that having TJ Miller on the cast after all of the disciplinary stuff he got himself into (calling the bomb hoax on the AMTRAK train / the person whose friend is called "Cunty" revealing that he was a prick to everyone on the set) would have drawn a lot of smack towards the production team. Miller just made things horrible for himself.

Agreed but I also have to agree with GP; Bachman was a really entertaining part of the show and I've personally had a hard time feeling as invested in it with him gone.

I love the show, but think it could've ended with Season 4. I'd rather be left with the memory of wanting more than seeing it degrade.

Last season already felt like it had a lot of recycled ideas and Erlich Bachman was notably missing.

It sounds like they found a good way to end it, so they decided to do that instead of just stringing it along.

https://www.slashfilm.com/why-silicon-valley-is-ending/

After a few seasons, I feel like people's characters aren't really growing or have much of an arc. Bachman is gone, BigHead seems to be doing his normal things after losing all his money, Gilfoyle and Dinesh are doing the same things. Jared is at least seeming to go back to his roots as a startup loving character, saying that Pied Piper has changed so much in getting big...

Although the character that I didn't expect to have much of an arc, is having a great one. I'm of course talking about Jian Yang! Now I wish he would have his own show. That guy is not only hilarious, but a kind of evil mastermind in the classic SV way, where you wonder how someone so seemingly incompetent could do such things.

The plot I feel is still pretty good, and mostly just a normal parody of what is going on in SV, which makes it hilarious, but I don't know if other people would really get it as much as tech insiders would.

“We just sat down this season and started writing and just felt it out and just decided we had a really good way to go out this season,” Judge said. “So that was that” (https://www.slashfilm.com/why-silicon-valley-is-ending/)

And then he has some movie ideas: https://www.indiewire.com/2019/03/silicon-valley-ending-mike...

Six seasons and a movie!

Troy and Abed in the movie!

This doesn’t contribute anything to the conversation, even in the slightest, but thanks for making me smile!

The same reason every show ends. Ratings have dropped off a cliff.

every US* shows end.

Most* European shows follow an arc and then stop. It helps that there isn't really an overwhelming obsession with reaching for syndication(~100 shows). Not much point either as rewards for non US syndication are tiny fractions of US.

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