While acting primarily as a comedy, Silicon Valley raises a number of serious issues in its season 3 premiere. Early on in the episode, Erlich in a fit of rage runs over a robotic dear, before leaving the car and kicking it. Robotic abuse is a serious matter that is not acknowledged as it should be in this day and age. By choosing to draw awareness to the issue, Mike Judge has started a movement. Feel free to watch this video PSA on the issue below.
Now that this issue has been brought forward, we can continue with the review.First of all, Fuck Rigby. Since his debut in Silicon Valley, Rigby has been presented as the guy who the audience is supposed to stand behind and support. We’ve seen his transition as a naïve coward to an arrogant owner who believes he alone can lead Pied Piper. This means that he is mutinous to the idea of a new CEO for the company, since he has taken them so far in the role already. However, as noted by Gilfoyle, he is a great coder but a terrible manager. The company has gone as far as it can go under him and a new CEO is the breath of fresh air that the show needs. Richard is great though, awesome guy.
Bighead’s story is the part of the show that always seemed like filler to me, while it is kind of funny to see him fall ass backwards into success season after season, his parts always seemed like throwaway jokes. This episode however shows what I hope is Bighead’s push to relevance with his payment of $20 Million just to leave the company. Hopefully this means he’ll take the money and use it to further Pied Piper or Hooli in some way or another. Judging by that hope, he’ll probably refuse the money to stay with his roof friends.
The climax of the episode shows Richard coming to terms with taking a reduced role in the company as CTO under new CEO Action Jack, who seems like the nicest guy on Earth (He knows Aviato?). However, jack s only in if Richard stays so there’s some wiggle room in the power struggle for Richard going forward. If things go wrong he can always cash out and put digital moustaches on people and their pets. Either way, Silicon Valley has started out great this season and I can’t wait to see how it goes.
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