Jeri Jacquin
On Bluray from HBO Home Entertainment is the continuing look
at the world through the eyes of those at the beginning of the technology age
with SILICON VALLEY
Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani) has helped to change Pied Piper to
the video chat app called PiperChat. That isn’t the problem really as the team
is trying to fund it on their own. Dinesh and Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) know
there is only one more play and it’s with Russ Hanneman (Chris Diamantopoulos).
Richard (Thomas Middleditch) isn’t happy about what it going on around him and
feels that he needs to take his ideas elsewhere. That leaves the CEO job open
and Dinesh is offered up.
Richard’s first lock out is when he asks Dinesh for data and
is told he is locked out. Not about to be stopped, he finds a way in and
discovers that the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act has been violated
by PiperChat.
Gavin (Matt Ross) and Jack are back from China but there
is something happening that causes Gavin to use a video chat to find answers.
Discovering what Jack is up to, Gavin reaches out to Dinesh to shut down the
app altogether. Avoiding legal problems that Richard knows about is the only
way to make it all go away.
Of course it isn’t that easy yet Jack manages to avoid
dealing with the legal implications of COOPA. Richard is working like crazy on
his internet project and its about to take a turn when Monica lets him know
that she knew someone who was working on something similar once. Turns out it
is Peter Gregory and Richard gets his hands on the archives of his work. The
problem he discovers is that Hooli once again has their hands in everything.
Gavin is on board with helping Richard, especially when its
discovered that it could knock Hooli out. Richard works out a business plan but
wants to keep the launch less than obvious. Erlich (T.J. Miller) believes that
Laurie (Suzanne Cryer) is going to be forced out of Raviga by Ed Chen but it
isn’t much of a surprise for anyone.
Dinesh doesn’t know what to do about his relationship with
Mia (Phoebe Neidhardt) but that might not be an issue when he discovers a hack
that is disturbing. Deciding to talk to Richard about what has been happening,
he isn’t the only one not happy with what has been happening as Gavin turns
everything over to Richard.
Leaving a mess, Richard is confronted by Russ about the
whole thing and it turns, shall we say messy? Reaching out to Dan Melcher to
work a deal, he has to babysit Erlich which turns into Erlich trying to get a
job with Feldspar.
Pied Piper in online and breaks the top 500 app! Richard
knows he needs to find an attorney and begin litigation for the royalties. Of
course he is a step behind when Burke has a longer arm and pins Richard against
a wall after a failed Hail-Mary threat.
Who knew weather would put the Pied Piper team once again
close to ruin from the storage center. Richard reaches out to Erlich to get a
meeting with Feldspar thinking they could get something going with their VR
tech. Dinesh and Gilfoyle manage to use Pied Piper’s algorithm that gives the
VR a boost. With an offer of a $25 million buy out, Richard learns from Monica (Amanda
Crew) that it’s a farce by Feldspar and that she is willing to fund them.
Going into Hooli-Conference, the Pied Piper team sneak in
with their routers. Placing them all around the convention, they wait for
Feldspar to bring in their VR presentation only to watch it fall apart and
Hooli phones go haywire by exploding. Now Jack has to deal with millions of
devices affected.
Richard uses Anton to store data and Barker takes off to China as they
have no choice but to increase production. Gavin has run off to Tibet but
learns Barker has been taken hostage. Knowing he has to rescue him, it means
coming back reinstated at Hooli’s CEO.
Pied Piper is back on investors radar and it is Gavin who
offers Richard a deal. That’s when he discovers Richard has made a deal with
Bream/Hall. Angry, he threatens Richard who lets Gavin know that he isn’t
worried at all. In fact Richard makes a threat, or prediction of his own saying
he plans to make Hooli obsolete.
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The series was created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler and
Dave Krinsky with the story of five guys who are trying to get their start up
company started in the Silicon Valley . HBO
premiered the show in 2014 and has already been reviewed for a fifth season!
The DVD includes the episodes Success Failure, Terms of Service, Intellectual Property, Teambuilding
Exercise, The Blood Boy, Customer Service, The Patent Troll, The Keenan Vortex,
Hooli-Con and Server Error.
There are laughs enough for all yet there is also intricate
story lines in the high-tech world that had me learning far more than I ever
imagined. I’m pretty much a tech failure being I just want things to work when
I turn them on and don’t care how that happens. The cast play off each other
with ease and that’s the biggest thing that makes this show work.
Each character has its own idea of how the world works and
the clashes are sometimes beyond belief, yet I tune in for each episode knowing
there is so much more to come. I certainly don’t claim to understanding
everything they talk about but I’m dang sure willing to learn.
In the end – they are changing the way things change!
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