“Jared, have you been crying?” Dinesh says.For more absurd details about his fairy tale ceremony and reception at Big Sur, consult this article in Vanity Fair. There really were live bunnies available to guests at Sean Parker’s wedding.The cold-open punch lines have been a consistent pleasure all season, none better than the approving claw-arm motion Gavin makes over the plan to use a crane to drop a 9,000-pound elephant into the bay.To quote Bette Davis in “All About Eve”: “Fasten your seatbelts. Next season, it could be something else entirely. What is Pied Piper? For now, it’s a small operation that owes its future to engineer’s skeevy desire to see an attractive Estonian coder more clearly. Cantwell Gavin spending $2 million to buy Cantwell’s blog, owned by Bachmanity LLC, in order to bury the story and Erlich using half that money to outbid Gavin for Pied Piper - allow Richard and company to control their destiny once more, with the focus now on Dinesh’s “world-beating, game-changing video conferencing application.” Perhaps that speaks to another tech phenomenon, the see-what-sticks pivots that have led Pied Piper from being a storage box company to a compression platform company to a vid-chat company. Some sneaky plot mechanics - Gavin Belson illegally dumping a dead elephant into the bay a disgruntled employee leaking the news to tech blogger C.J. numbers would have flatlined.Īs his reward, “Silicon Valley” manufactures a happy ending for him anyway, if only because needs to continue to exist as a show. If Jared hadn’t shuffled the company’s last dollars to a “clickfarm” in Bangladesh, then the D.A.U. In typical “Silicon Valley” style, Erlich’s story is framed by a masturbation anecdote - shades of the great “middle out” whiteboard that closed Season 1 - but as he’s describing his “Mona Lisa” of venture capital manipulation, we know that the uptick is phony.

numbers, uses that information to make it seem like an undervalued company back on the rise. Based on Pied Piper’s dismal Daily Active Users data, the venture capitalist crowd believes that the company is in a “death spiral,” but Erlich, bolstered by the recent uptick in D.A.U. The centerpiece of “The Uptick,” the terrifically satisfying season capper, is a profane Erlich Bachman soliloquy about how he turned the Silicon Valley buzz mill to his advantage. But the true satirical bite of the show lies in its suggestion that Silicon Valley is an empire built on quicksand - and that it, like Pied Piper, could one day sink into the earth. The creators of “Silicon Valley” love to poke fun at the pretensions of its “visionaries” and the Segways and cereal bars that mask the Industrial Age ruthlessness of tech companies in hip, progressive, candy-colored campuses. Capping another season on the brink, “The Uptick” turns on a fundamental truth that the show expresses time and time again: That success in the tech industry is perceptual and ephemeral, built on valuations that favor potential profit over actual profit and numbers that can be gamed to the point that they are meaningless. There are times when you watch it with your eyes half-covered, like a horror movie, because the specter of failure pursues Pied Piper as relentlessly as a slasher villain in a hockey mask. That gnawing tension brings the best out of the characters, too, turning Richard into a quivering, inarticulate ball of anxiety, and goosing Erlich into the bong-fueled pontification necessary to save his helpless incubees. In “Silicon Valley,” the ups and downs of Pied Piper’s fortunes are part of its comedic formula: Week after week, and sometimes within the space of a single episode, the company can go from “the belles of the balls” to the brink of tech-bubble oblivion.

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