This is one of the season's most memorable scenes and it's done so well that even if you don't work in a coding environment it's still hilarious. Take for example the scene where Richard and would-be girlfriend Winnie (Bridey Elliott) fight over using tabs or spaces while coding. Sure Silicon Valley is exaggerated for effect, but so much of it rings true because it is true. That's only a fraction of what happens in the third season.Ĭreator Mike Judge shows a keen understanding of the soul-sucking nature that is cubicle capitalism. Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani) tries coding a video chat platform in his spare time in order to talk to girls and Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) makes fun of him relentlessly for it. Only Ehrlich's arrogance and love for the finer things in life causes money troubles. Miller) finds his relationship with Richard strained so he sets out with Big Head (Josh Brener) to create their own incubator project with the windfall severance Big Head got from Hooli. There are so many storylines to catch up on it's hard to remember all of them. No matter how smart Richard is he'll always be beholden to the mammoth weight of immortal bureaucracy.Įven though the show is only 30-minute episodes it packs a lot in. Being thrown out of the position he created solely by starting Pied Piper, by people who don't even work at his company, is cruel, but not unusual. He knows how to code, but the business world is completely different. Richard is stuck in this world that seems utterly foreign to him.
Much of the time Silicon Valley reminds me of Joseph Heller's “Catch-22” and Richard is Yossarian. At the end of season two he'd found out that he'd been kicked out of the CEO role by the company board. Poor Richard (Thomas Middleditch), he was never meant to run a company.
There's nothing functional about Silicon Valley, but watching the frustrating dysfunction play out is too much fun.
The problem with the tech world is that even with a great idea nothing can happen if it isn't married to a functional business environment. The third season contains various storylines which are all intertwined with the main one: Pied Piper trying to become a full-fledged company. It's a specific niche that not everyone is familiar with, but the brilliance of this show is you don't have to work in development to find it funny. Where Veep takes on politics, Silicon Valley snipes at tech-capitalism. Like HBO's other genius comedy Veep, Silicon Valley deeply understands its subject and therefore is able to skewer it relentlessly. Am I laying it on too thick? I don't think so. The third season was the funniest yet, and the first two seasons were already comedy gold. Silicon Valley only gets better as the seasons progress.
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