MIKE JUDGE’S TRIUMPH OF ENGINEERING

WRITER, DIRECTOR, AND PRODUCER MIKE JUDGE HAS A TALENT for bringing an almost anthropological understanding to his subjects, from the vacuous teenage boys of Beavis and Butt-Head to the disaffected cubicle dwellers of Office Space to the proud Texans in King of the Hill. With Silicon Valley, now in its sixth and final season on HBO, he has turned his gaze to twenty-something startup engineers navigating the world-building narcissism of Big Tech. A former engineer himself, Judge somehow finds the real players of Silicon Valley—despite it all—rather decent.

I was in a coffee shop recently, and [the barista] recognized my name on my credit card and asked what I’m going to do now that   is done. I said, “No, there’s another season.” I guess because last season was so positive, he thought that was the end