Silicon Valley - The Complete Third Season

Mike Judge, the creator of "Office Space," "King of the Hill" and "Beavis and Butthead," has always brought us the best in dumb ass, dude humor. In "Silicon Valley: The Complete Third Season," the socially awkward white boys of Judge's comedies do what they've always done, but with multimillion-dollar budgets to burn through.

Richard Hendrix (Thomas Middleditch) picks up right where he left off last season, at the crushing realization that he has lost everything. His startup, dream company Pied Piper, is no longer his now that the board has voted to fire him as CEO -- and his good friend Monica (Amanda Crew) helped make this a reality.

Now he and his coding team, Bertram Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) and Dinesh Chugtai (Kumail Nanjiani), have a new problem. How do they continue to develop their world-class compression algorithm when the new boss has his own misguided ideas?

Meanwhile, the CEO of the mega-tech monopoly Hooli, Gavin Belson (Matt Ross), dissolves his competing platform, Nucleus. This doesn't necessarily make things better for Pied Piper, because End Frame (the video compression company that stole Richard's code) is still in the game.

But the changes at Hooli bring about a significant shift in fortune for Erlich Bachman (T. J. Miller), who is able to sweep up almost every cent of his old buddy Nelson "Big Head" Bighetti's (Josh Brener) $20 million dollar severance package and promptly blow it all.

With a suspenseful plot and sharp satire, this season is amazingly watchable. In fact, you can burn through all ten episodes in no time at all. Season 3 was nominated for more awards than any season to date (a Golden Globe, a Writers Guild award and 11 Emmys including Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actor, Thomas Middleditch). And, as always, "Silicon Valley"'s humor is ripped right from the headlines.

As our need for connectedness actually fragments our knowledge and pigeonholes our perceptions, every major news outlet is putting up opinion pieces, but only "Silicon Valley" is holding up a mirror to the brave new world of commerce and coding.

The special features in this two-disc Blu-ray collection are even fewer than last season: There are just three deleted scenes, but they are some of the some of the most raunchy and ribald of the series.


"Silicon Valley: The Complete Third Season"
Blu-ray
$34.98
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