Just when I thought that Silicon Valley was doing pretty well so far, the writers decide to do something new with the show. Of course, every now and then sitcoms need to do something new to stay relevant but I thought Silicon Valley wasn’t like other sitcoms. So the writers decided to prove me wrong and tell us that it’s just like any other sitcom. Of course most sitcoms(and romcoms) revolve around the boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy and girl get married. Here we have something different. I’ll talk about it later. But one thing I noticed is the sudden barrage of women. So far, the only women we’ve seen on the show are Monica, Laurie and Gilfoyle’s girlfriend. I don’t know if the show’s trying to address the problem of the lack of women in the valley or if it’s just trying to be different.
The episode opens in a bar which was the first sign of a change. Usually the show always opens in Eric’s incubator, but this time we opened in a bar. I thought I was watching How I Met Your Mother until Richard revealed that he was talking to a girl. At that point, I was convinced. What basically follows is everyone thinking she’s a bartender until it is revealed that she works at Facebook. Gilfoyle’s still convinced she’s a bartender. Then talk opens up about how she’s a founder hounder because Richard told her she’s a CEO at Pied Piper.
As for the team Richard recently hired, they’re being given a scolding on using spaces instead of tabs. And this ‘Tabs vs Spaces’ debate becomes the major part of the storyline. With only 4 episodes to go, we get this filler instead of focusing on the Hooli-Pied Piper Market Race. And as for ‘Tabs vs Spaces’, I use tabs but it’s one of the most pointless arguments in programming. Both have their uses and all you need to make sure about is that your code is readable. Richard is either batshit-crazy or he’s one of those programmers that pulls a fit everytime someone uses ‘endl’ instead of ‘\n’.
Let’s talk about Dinesh for a second. We all know Dinesh likes to think of himself as ‘Pakistani Denzel’. Apparently, he’s trying to get one of those female engineers that they’ve hired to travel halfway across the world to meet him. Trouble is he’s using Hooli Chat which doesn’t exactly have the clearest picture quality. You can guess what happens. His story’s pretty much him talking to her. In the end, he implements a video chat feature on the platform which gives her a good look at him. Suddenly, she has a boyfriend and a husband. Poor Dinesh!
While Richard brings his new girlfriend to the incubator, Dinesh and Gilfoyle warn her about Richard’s obsession with tabs. After the usual blubbering and stuttering about him being OK with spaces, he finally caves in confronts her in the best argument in the show ever. He somehow tries to cover 8 steps at once to prove that tabs are superior and ends up falling. Anyways, at least that’s over.
The only plot advancements I saw were with Bachmanity and Gavin. Gavin’s dealing with the aftermath of the reporter’s leaks. Of course, what do billionaires do? Find someone to sue. He wants to sue the reporter into giving up her source who’s actually Big Head. Big Head tells Erlich about the problem. His solution? Buy the blog and keep her mouth shut. In the meantime, there’s a giant party in Alcatraz hosted by Bachmanity. Except Bachmanity have no money anymore.
Erlich’s definitely upset about it. Big Head is Big Head but do you see what’s happening here? They have no money to mount up a proper defense if Big Head gets sued. And since Erlich is technically a business partner, it’s Bachmanity getting sued. And Laurie hates Erlich so I don’t see Pied Piper rushing to the defense here.
Best Moments:
- “Jared, we’ll worry about that later.” Apparently, Erlich’s still plotting to become CEO.
- Gavin getting assaulted by the soap and his ramblings about committing murder and lighting a fire under people’s arses.
- The entirety of Richard’s argument with his girlfriend
- And of course, him falling down the stairs.
- “You didn’t mention a boyfriend?”, “That’s because he’s a husband now.” Poor Dinesh.
- “It means hello.”…”And Goodbye”. In case you don’t know, “Hello Goodbye” is a Beatles song.
Silicon Valley airs Sundays on HBO at 10/9c.
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