unglamorous. unfunny. alec: it could not be more relevant. you look at the speed at which tech is moving and the role that it plays in our life. mike: hollywood is always very puzzled. when the internet exploded, they tried a movie called "the net," trying to make it sexy and intriguing. and it just was kind of ridiculous. this was an interesting challenge just because, as alec says, it is sort of unfilmable. but that can lead you to do more interesting stuff that has not been done in television. it seems like a good time to take a look at the people who are getting rich off of it and building the things that we use everyday. emily: when you ask doctors about "grey's anatomy," they say that it is nothing like that. what do you want engineers to say about "silicon valley"? how important is it to you to get it right? mike: i like it when they say -- we have a lot of people saying that we have gotten it right for the most part. alec: we try to get the technical details right. we do a lot of research and have a lot of consultants that ask a lot o

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