'Silicon Valley' News: HBO Show - No Sacred Cows in Cultural Satire That's Almost Documentary

The new season of "Silicon Valley" premiered on HBO on Sunday, April 12.

This satirical comedy has grown into a full-fledged hit for the cable network. Apart from the fact that the show is almost a documentary in the way it portrays the characters, the culture and even the way everyone talks, there are a lot of reasons why the show is a must-see.

For those who have not yet started watching the show, here are the reasons why you should start now:

There are no sacred cows. The show's intentions were clear from the first poster where the group of entrepreneurs strike the same self-important pose that Steve Jobs made popular.

Creator Mike Judge is the best person to deliver cutting social satire. He brought "Office Space" and "Beavis and Butt-head," basically covering both the world of work and meaningless culture.

In Season 1, main character Richard created a music app containing a revolutionary compression algorithm. Gavin Belson, founder of Hooli, offered Richard $10 million for the algorithm, but Richard released it through his own company, Pied Piper, accepting a $200,000 investment from venture capitalist Peter Gregory. Belson built Nucleus to rival Pied Piper's algorithm.

The show is full of inside jokes. A couple of main characters are modeled in part on real-life personalities: Peter Gregory satirizes billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel, with both encouraging kids to drop out of college. Christopher Evan Welch, who played the role, died of cancer in December 2013.

Erlich Bachman is thought to be inspired by Sean Parker of Napster and Facebook fame.

Gavin Belson is inspired by Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff. Both love yoga/meditating and both make sure everyone knows about their philanthropic efforts.

Cameos last season were made by Eric Schmidt, Jason Kincaid, Kara Swisher and Michael Arrington. Season 2 reportedly will have Snapchat's Evan Spiegel and the Winklevoss twins.

Hooli resembles Google in the use of bold colors, shuttle and company culture.

"Silicon Valley" includes great cultural satire. At a lavish party, Richard's best friend Bighead says, "These guys built a mediocre piece of software that might be worth something one day, and now they live here."

Over the top references to changing the world are made – "it takes change to make change," "no fear, no failure" and "persistence=success."

We got introduced to Brogrammers—the buff, cool programmers that bully nerdier programmers like Richard.

The show pokes fun at Silicon Valley's culture where the rock stars are founders of multibillion dollar companies and not the musicians.

Real-life Silicon Valley mostly loves the show. Venture capitalists also love the show. Those who don't love it don't really hate it.

Season 1 ends with dramatic completion: Pied Piper and Nucleus will debut at the same event. Richards works on completely reprogramming Pied Piper after realizing Nucleus' superiority. During the presentation, Pied Piper crushes Nucleus' Weissman Score, and sets a new record for compressing files. Richard and team are flooded with interested investors after the showcase.