'Silicon Valley' Season 2: Ep 6 Recap: Will Thomas Middleditch's Richard Commit "Homicide?"
From the comedic mind of Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-head), Season 2 of Silicon Valley continues on HBO. In Episode 6, will Erlich Bachman (T.J. Miller), Richard Hendriks (Thomas Middleditch), and the rest of the tech gang find themselves committing 'Homicide?'
Gavin Belson (Matt Ross) sits in the front row of his UFC live stream event and watches Nucleus become a complete disaster. The feed disrupts and stops in the middle of the most exciting knockout brawl ever. Gavin realizes he has surrounded himself with Yes-Men, who are afraid to tell him the truth.
After watching Nucleus's disaster, Monica (Amanda Crews) thinks Richard should jump on the next live stream event. Richard has doubts but Jared (Zach Woods) thinks Pied Piper should live stream an egg hatch. Erilch has a better offer; Homicide Energy Drink is setting up an event, where their motorcyclist is supposed to pull a death-defying stunt.
Erlich knows the owner of Homicide Energy Drink because they go way back since college. It turns out Erlich's former mentee wasn't a big fan. Richard discovers Elrich got the nickname, Kool-Aid, because he would burst into the room, ruining the fun. People only hung out with Elrich because of his weed.
Meanwhile, Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani) is flirting with one of the employees from Homicide. Just when he is about to ask her out, Dinesh sees her making out with her boyfriend. Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) discovers that her boyfriend is the actual cyclist and his crew miscalculated the jump. The stuntman is going to crash into the wall and kill himself.
Just as they are about to warn the motorcyclist about his miscalculations, he starts yelling at them. Dinesh and Gilfoyle debate about whether or not they should tell him he's going to die. If they don't tell him, Dinesh gets the girl and has sex. The two run out the building after the stuntman discovers they were holding out on him and trying to steal his girl.
Elrich warns Richard though that his former mentee had a nickname in college too, "Double A**hole." Because Homicide won't put Pied Piper's logo during the live stream, Richard gets mad and calls the guy "Double A**hole" in front of his employees. Richard was actually hurting the guy's feelings because he's physically deformed.
Gavin Belson (Matt Ross) holds a focus group to find out what the public truly thinks of Nucleus. Unfortunately, everyone in the focus group hates the new update and have nothing good to say about it. Gavin curses aloud when he asks how bad is it; it's "Apple Maps bad."
Pied Piper's live stream of the egg hatch is going well but no one is viewing the online event, except for a few views. Jared is loving it though.
Richard gets a call from Russ Hanneman (Chris Diamantopoulos), who spots a new company logo on the energy drink's live stream. It turns out Richard's algorithm is being used by hackers, the same people he had a meeting before.
Readers, what did you think of Homicide?