Last night’s Silicon Valley season finale gave us two of the season’s funniest bits, both courtesy of Thomas Middleditch’s Richard Hendricks. The first—Richard prancing around in a pied piper costume, flute and all—speaks for itself, while the other, which no doubt sent upstart t-shirt purveyors rushing to the…

At the start of season five, I argued that Silicon Valley was staring at a lot of obstacles, thanks to a somewhat unmoored fourth season and associated real-world debacles. And now looking at the season as a whole, it’s been a mixed bag in terms of working around those roadblocks. T.J. Miller’s absence proved to be no…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, May 13. All times are Eastern. 

In my review of Silicon Valley’s fifth season premiere a few weeks ago, I argued that while the show continues to have issues in its advanced age, it’s still working off of a sturdy foundation with its talented cast and its perverse sense of humor. And as we approach the end of the season, that point has held up. Each…

The founders of Pied Piper have talked a big game about a brand new day this season—a new Internet free from unwanted ads and identity theft—but actual hope has been hard to come by. Their new employees nearly shattered the workplace with feuds over dogs and coffee. They’ve been targeted by unscrupulous executives and…

For all HBO’s “It’s not TV” pride at being above its broadcast peers, this Sunday has a lot of hallmarks of those broadcasters’ love of themed programming. On the same night as the second season premiere of Westworld, a show that throws the evolution of robots back in the face of their creators, Silicon Valley is…

“You can be openly polyamorous and people will call you brave. You can put micro-doses of LSD in your cereal and people will call you a pioneer. But the one thing you cannot be is a Christian.”

Now in its fifth season, HBO’s Silicon Valley remains buoyed by Zach Woods’ alternately buttoned-up and unhinged Jared Dunn, who, as we’ve previously pointed out, is just a few editing flourishes away from veering into the dark side. Woods told us that, hilariously, he improvised a great deal of his bizarro backstory;…

In news that prompted mixed reactions here at A.V. Club HQ, Variety has confirmed reports that HBO has renewed Bill Hader’s melancholy hitman dramedy Barry for a second season, and Mike Judge’s long-running, newly T.J. Miller-free tech-world satire Silicon Valley for a sixth. The reactions weren’t completely split…

All the way back in the third episode of Silicon Valley, I made the observation that a central lesson to take from the show was the message “Look before you leap.” Multiple seasons later, that message hasn’t become any less relevant. Putting the “neg” in “negotiations,” spilling evidence of a conspiracy onto the…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, April 8. All times are Eastern.

I may have come across as a bit harsh on Silicon Valley in my review of last week’s premiere, but I feel it’s important to clarify that my judgments come from a place of love. When this show is firing on all cylinders, it’s frequently one of the best comedies on television, and it bothers me when it comes across as…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, April 1. All times are Eastern.

When last we wrote about the insane, hilariously complex number of in-jokes in the opening credits to HBO’s Silicon Valley, we hoped the ill-fated Juicero would make a cameo in the season five intro. The good news: It did! The better news: It wasn’t even the best new joke to be found.

As it begins its fifth season, Silicon Valley finds itself at a disadvantage for a variety of reasons. It’s coming off a fourth season that had its moments, but that was repeatedly criticized for its inability to commit to the fresher narratives it introduced. It’s satirizing an industry whose public perception in the…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, March 25. All times are Eastern. 

Silicon Valley returns this Sunday, March 25, with a fully funded, fully staffed Pied Piper and a host of new anxieties for Richard. On the red carpet of the season-five premiere, we had the cast reveal what they love to do on their phones.

At the beginning of Silicon Valley, Jared, played by Zach Woods, wasn’t too dissimilar from Richard. Both were timid and reserved, although Jared often played the optimistic yin to Richard’s pessimistic yang. But over time, Jared’s eccentricities were slowly revealed, like his sexual prowess, simmering rage, and …

Last season of Silicon Valley saw Richard struggling to keep his integrity intact, attempting to illegally install Pied Piper code on thousands of Hooli phones, all for the sake of keeping his dream of a decentralized, peer-to-peer internet alive. In classic Silicon Valley fashion, Richard’s plan backfired through…

HBO’s tech-snark comedy Silicon Valley is entering its fifth, recently T.J. Miller-freed season, and the pay-cable giant is using South By Southwest to entice fans with the illusion of massive monetary success. (Just like the show’s characters, really.) HBO has converted a house at SXSW to mimic several scenes from…