Sisyphus in Silicon Valley

If it wasn't crystal clear before, it's obvious now that the HBO series — amusingly laden as it is with grandiose fantasies of genius and merit and Making It — is dedicated not to empire-building but to the comical drudgery of rote repetition

This is not a show about building tech empires.
(Image credit: John P. Johnson/HBO)

Silicon Valley is back for another round on tech's wheel of fortune, and everything's changed: Dinesh is CEO!

Just kidding. Nothing has changed. Everything is the same, and I mean that in the best possible way.

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Lili Loofbourow is the culture critic at TheWeek.com. She's also a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Review of Books and an editor for Beyond Criticism, a Bloomsbury Academic series dedicated to formally experimental criticism. Her writing has appeared in a variety of venues including The Guardian, Salon, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and Slate.