Martin Starr’s reliably dry delivery makes him this episode’s MVP.Īs further proof that you should never read the comments, Richard stumbles upon a brutal beatdown from a tech blogger named C.J. “And it has a lot less of Jack’s ass rubbed on it,” Gilfoyle adds. “By comparison, the chair is sturdier than Richard,” Dinesh says.
“Laurie thinks Action Jack’s empty chair is a better CEO than me!” he growls before storming out of the office. Until the empty CEO chair is filled, Richard is the Gerald Ford of Pied Piper. “Can you legally do that?” asks salesperson Jan the Man. Richard’s solution is to ditch the fancy new digs, fire the sales department, and move back to Erlich’s Hacker Hostel incubator. Add in the office rent and salary for an endless array of salespeople, and Pied Piper’s accounting reveals that this $250-million company has burned through its initial financing. Laurie may have shot the king last week, but the bullet came with the standard exorbitant CEO buyout. There’s no doubt that Pied Piper’s been screwed - and by Action Jack Barker, no less. “Maybe she’s just fucking them,” Gilfoyle says of the long list of candidates, to which I say, “Laurie, gurrrrl, you get your groove back!” That he thinks he has a shot strikes me as the height of implausibility, so Laurie’s speed-interviewing makes sense.
He opens the episode in full Kanye West egomania, practically foaming at the mouth over the constant news of Laurie interviewing candidates to be Pied Piper’s CEO. His luck may run out, however, after he goes into business with Erlich. You’d think Jared is the lone wolf that bucks my theory, but this episode highlights that he too has always had a far more successful counterpart - Big Head is Jared, just stupider and luckier. The “one failure to one success” ratio is the yin and the yang of Silicon Valley, and every character has a partner in this regard: Erlich has Richard, Dinesh has Gilfoyle, and Gavin has Richard as well. Richard’s egotistical rant made me temporarily root for his comeuppance, throwing the show’s beautiful power balance briefly off-kilter. As the resident Erlich defender around these parts, that may seem a bit hypocritical, but there’s a difference: I’ve always rooted for Erlich to fail and for Richard to succeed. For the first time in the show’s history, I actively disliked him. On this week’s Silicon Valley, Richard Hendricks devolves to the level of douche-bro normally reserved for Erlich Bachman. Miller as Bachman, Martin Starr as Gilfoyle. Zach Woods as Jared, Kumail Nanjiani as Dinesh, Thomas Middleditch as Richard, T.J.
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