Silicon Valley Season 2 Finale Review

Silicon Valley Season 2 Finale Episodes

Written by Huzaifa Khan on June 15, 2015.

Rarely does a comedy about 5 dudes living together making a revolutionary app ever make me reflect back on these characters' journey, and make it well worth watching. Silicon Valley's Season 2 Finale offered many tie-ups to season-long events that kept us intrigued, while introducing many key aspects for the coming seasons. Fair warning, we'll be going into full spoilers for the episode, so if you haven't seen this amazing episode, what're you doing with life exactly? Go watch it then meet us back here for the review.

Starting with the impending court tension that we left off in last week's penultimate offering, the writers clearly knew how to keep the themes we've been accustomed to alive. Having Richard at his absolute worst, fighting for his life for Pied Piper was really something else, and Thomas Middleditch's performance was outstanding to say the least, especially considering the range of emotions he had to play with, from making the untimely desperate decision to wipe Pied Pier from existence, to frantically getting home in order to stop the former decision. Even Gavin Belson, who I really didn't expect to deliver much, really showed a better side to his character, not necessarily personality wise, but in charisma, with the whole tie-tying scene. It'll be fun to see how he deals with no longer being the head honcho around

Back at the incubator, the army of coders handling the now-popular livestream was an incredible storyline throughout. Seeing the injured guy racking up record-breaking views (thanks to some agressive Phillipino help.) I've really grown to love Gilfoyle's character, having his progression in Season 2 tie him with Erlich as my favourite character on screen, so seeing him desperately trying to keep his precious servers alive was a treat in every sense of the word. Not only him, but even Dinesh and Jared managed to get in some great scenes, especially Dinesh, who never fails to impress with his unbreakable chemistry with Gilfoyle. Jared had some great time to shine, finally touching light upon how he gave up an entire life of fortune to become something more, so that was a nice touch on the situation already.

And let's not forget the undisclosed "landlord" of our favourite incubator. With Erlich being presented with the option of selling his home, it was hilarious to see him give it up so easily in a "not-so-rash" decision according to him. I'm glad the writers skipped out on the whole "emotional lookback at all the good times" for the most part, and used his ego as a better tactic to decline the offer, providing both great laughs and incredible performance by T.J. Miller.

Just before we close off, I wanna talk a little bit about the seeds planted for Season 3. Having Russ completely eliminated from the picture was unfortunate (I really liked him nonetheless,) but seeing Revega basically screw Pied Piper and Richard over was incredibly entertaining, leading me to desperately survive the summer for more of the Pied Piper gang.

Overall, this was a really satisfying conclusion to a somewhat rocky season of Silcon Valley. With incredible performances, great writing, and perfect conclusions and set-ups, this really was a finale worth watching.