Mike Judge has been more successful on the small screen than on the big one. Compare the huge success of Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill to the cult status of Office Space and outright obscurity of Idiocracy and Extract and you’ll see what I mean. Sure, he flopped on TV with his last show The Goode Family, but in light of how enjoyable the first episode of Silicon Valley is, that misstep can be forgotten.