One of my all-time favorite shows, the comedy in Silicon Valley is unparalleled to any other show. Richard Hendricks starts off as a shy computer programmer in the incubator of  Erlich Bachman in Silicon Valley in California. He has the dream to create compression software for file transferring but he is always has a constant battle against the made-up company “Hooli” which mocks big tech giants like Amazon and Google.

The cast of Silicon Valley 

The show starts off in the home of Erlich Bachman where he hosts an incubator for programmers to come and work on their application or software in exchange for some equity in their company. The incubator hosts many different programmers including Gilfoyle, Dinesh, Big Head, and Jian-Yang. All of them are programmers working on their unique projects trying to make their start-up successful in the arduous environment of the valley.

Richard Hendricks is an awkward guy who most likely does not know what to say or do in any tough situation. If faced with a challenge too big for him he will most likely just find the nearest trash can and throw up in it.  During his time at Erlich’s incubator, he is able to create a compression software with unprecedented speed and compression and it blows the mind of every expert in the valley. But the person that it pisses off the most is Gavin Belson the CEO of the company Hooli. Richard used to work at Hooli in order to make money while also being able to work on his project at the incubator. But once his algorithm starts to do well he quits the company but this pisses off Gavin. Now Gavin makes it his sworn duty to come after Richards company, “Pied Piper.”

Pied Piper faces many struggles along the way because while Silicon Valley may seem like a safe place for programmers to be, it is actually a jungle. Every rich person in the valley is always looking to get their hands on some new proprietary piece of technology. But that is a struggle Richard has to face if he wants to survive in the Valley because he needs to be backed by an investor but he also does not want someone that will ruin his company or sell it to someone else.

One of the best dynamics of the show is between Gilfoyle and Dinesh who bicker like an old married couple but at the end of the day, they are best friends. Gilfoyle is a dark person who doesn’t like to share much about his personal life, but one thing is for sure that he is an excellent programmer and just as good as building the hardware. While Dinesh, on the other hand, is very insecure and lets himself get bullied by Gilfoyle because that is just the way that their relationship works.

Pied Piper may have started out in the incubator of a drug addict who had no manners, but now they are a force to be reckoned with in the valley, as they take up their new project of making the PiperNet. Season 6 is just starting so now would. be a great time to start watching the show.