The twisted path we’ve been following is the one thing keeping these guys real-and preventing them from being obnoxiously superior. The Kafka-esque struggles the guys of Silicon Valley face on their Chutes and Ladders journey to fortune and glory are what keep them human-largely because almost every chute is by their own design, and almost every ladder is either pure luck, a hard-earned break, or a questionable decision that could come back to bite them later. Its dramatic elements can make the redundancies seem like nothing but roadblocks, but as a sitcom, the show is a glowing example of how many different ways a long journey can end up leading nowhere at all. Silicon Valley has all the urgency of a high-stakes prestige drama, but at its core, it’s a comedy about hapless goobers. But in this case, the guys’ inability to learn from their mistakes is what keeps them from being insufferable. On paper, a series with protagonists whose repetitive mistakes always send them hurling back to where they started sounds like a disaster. With each season, the product gets closer to completion-but the genius team behind it always remains paradoxically inept. and throwing in owners with an emotional stake to boot.Īs Silicon Valley gives us the runaround over and over again, like a long game of Chutes and Ladders, it manages to drop story threads along the way, hiding chutes with the power to plop us right back at square one. In its own way, this season finale feels like a similar reset-handing the company back to its rightful C.E.O. And the season’s fifth episode went ahead and undid that development anyway-by firing Barker and basically hitting “reset” on the whole season. When Richard and the team later plotted to overcome Barker, Richard accidentally revealed their whole plan at the end of the episode. In the season premiere, Richard mulled over quitting the company after his demotion-but ultimately decided to stay. Season 3 felt more like a sitcom than Silicon Valley generally has, since many of its episodes presented problems that conclude conveniently in exactly 30 minutes.
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