And since he is, he can hire Richard as his “Gavin Belson Professor of Ethics in Technology.” Former Hooli head and decidedly unethical Gavin (Matt Ross), is now half of a duo that authors best-selling romances.
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So you can see how the characters ended up a decade after their monumental “failure.” The genial but extremely dim Big Head (Josh Brener), whom the series always made the epitome of “failing up,” is now president of Stanford. Much of the episode is constructed as a flashback, while people are filming interviews 10 years later for some kind of retrospective documentary or something.
And so they do, and because their company is called Pied Piper, their failure includes an enormous summoning of rats. Ironically, tech that Richard created to guarantee their users privacy would break all means of guaranteeing security.Īfter some agonizing, Richard, Gilfoyle (Martin Starr), Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani), Jared (Zach Woods) and Monica all agree that not only do they have to kill the tech, but they have to make it fail in a spectacularly public way, so that no one else figures out what they’ve done and tries to emulate it.
The implications were dire for things we’re used to trusting to be secure: banks, power grids, nuclear weapons, etc. So good, that to optimize itself, it started breaking previously unbreakable encryptions. But, of course, as the finale opened, they realized there were consequences. That may have been the least realistic event in the entire show.Īs I mentioned last week, they let their powerful compression technology and AI mate, which proved their revolutionary tech’s merit, saved their butt and landed them a huge deal with AT&T. When he created a monster, he didn’t apologize and promise to do better next time. And in this last episode, he was true to that. Pied Piper founder Richard started out in the premiere declaring to Congress that he wouldn’t be like those other tech giants, exploiting their users for profit. So maybe it’s not surprising that this last season has been the show’s most serious as, for the most part, they moved on from poking at the foibles of brogrammers and Sand Hill VCs.Įthics has been the overriding theme of this last season. The great health care hope Theranos was revealed to be a massive fraud. Facebook and Twitter may have helped throw an American election. Here are some things that have happened since the show debuted in 2014: Self-driving cars have killed people. Or possibly because there was also a point - it’s hard to identify exactly, but in the last few years - where things got too dark in real life to be very funny. Possibly because the show couldn’t keep up with real life here. At the same time, there was a point where the satire started to falter a bit. The show chronicled this place in ways mere newspapers and magazines couldn’t. “If you really want to understand how Silicon Valley works today, you should watch the HBO series ‘Silicon Valley.’” That was said in 2018 by Bill Gates - the most famous person to have a cameo in last night’s finale. I can’t think of any industry and place in time that has been as ruthlessly researched and mined as the Valley has been for this show. Throughout the series, those never faltered. The copy of “Shadowrun” at Gilfoyle’s desk. John the sys admin’s ponytail and his badge, which showed a tiny picture of him 20 years younger. The casual super-geeky references to Cult of the Dead Cow and Roko’s Basilisk.
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Moments I’ll never forget include: Revolutionary technology being invented through the world’s most elaborate wank joke the Uber ride elevator pitch Richard (Thomas Middleditch) and Monica (Amanda Crew) finding themselves the only real shoppers in a grocery store full of Instacart, TaskRabbit and other gig workers Gilfoyle’s impassioned loathing of the smart fridge and ode to his server Anton.Įven when the plot was lacking or the jokes didn’t land, the small details always made me smile. When it was on point, the thrusts were exquisite. Some thought it was hilarious for others, the last thing they wanted was to cringe at them at work and then come home to them again at night. The techies I know all loved or hated the show for the same reason - it mirrored their reality so well. Other great shows have certainly had worse endings.
There was nothing too bold or too pointed about it, but at least there was fan service. Loose ends were tied up, an ending was achieved.
Instead, it wrapped everything up like a present. “Silicon Valley” didn’t go out with a bang.
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