The show Silicon Valley follows a group of engineers and coders try to make it with a start-up in the tech-heavy market in California's Silicon Valley. They go through all the quick ups and downs of their market having to deal with corporate villains and others trying to constantly steal their code and algorithms.
The show delves into the culture of Silicon Valley and all of the eccentrics that exist there. It has a lot of drama and comedy throughout the show and boasts a talented cast including Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanjiani, and Zach Woods. Here are the top-rated episodes of the entire series according to IMDb.
Intellectual Property (S4 E3) - 8.6
Erlich tries to help an uncooperative Jian-Yang land funding for an app. Gavin is fired from Hooli as Jack turns against him after he tried to obtain Pied Piper's chat service that had countless underage users.
Big Head tries to go back to school to make his dad happy and stumbles into classes at Stanford.
Exit Event (S6 E7) - 8.7
The series finale of the show sees the Pied Piper team being interviewed ten years in the future about past events while also showing what happened with the AT&T deal and launch of PiperNet. Richard thinks that there might be an issue before their launch and Gilfoyle warns that their A.I. is too powerful and they should destroy it.
They decide that they need to sabotage their own launch and make it look like an accident so they don't get in trouble and no one is tempted to reconstruct their dangerous A.I. technology. The show reveals what happened to each character and ends their stories.
Meinertzhagen's Haversack (S3 E3) - 8.7
The team tries to stop Jack and the sales team from turning Pied Piper into a box appliance. Richard is upset that they want to sell an appliance instead of his online platform that they had been working on.
He tries to do some corporate maneuvering with help from Laurie and Monica and an Ocean's Eleven type of plan. Gilfoyle decides to quit as recruiters start reaching out to him and he figures out that another team has their algorithm.
Maleant Data Systems Solutions (S3 E4) - 8.7
The team has a difficult time at work as they begin working on their platform as Gilfoyle figures out a way for their system to run even faster and Richard is taken away to work on the box appliance. Things get worse when they figure out Jack signed over the rights to their algorithm and Gavin again tries to ruin Pied Piper.
Erlich is upset when he hears about another incubator in town run by Big Head.
The Uptick (S3 E10) - 8.7
Jared hired a click farm to pay people to sign up for Pied Piper services to get the company more users and Richard finds out about the fake users and Gilfoyle and Dinesh catch onto the secret.
Erlich tries and seemingly succeeds in getting funding for Pied Piper on the basis of the uptick in users. Gavin fires one of his lawyers and she sells a story about his inhumane dealings to a blog.
Homicide (S2 E6) - 8.8
After Hooli fails to live stream a UFC fight the Pied Piper team jumps at the opportunity as Erlich tries to set up an event they can live stream to beat Hooli. They go to an energy drink company where a motorcyclist is preparing a stunt.
Gilfoyle and Dinesh see that he has his calculations for the stunt wrong and could die on their live stream, so the two use Jared's SWOT method to decide if they should tell the stuntman or not.
Binding Arbitration (S2 E9) - 8.8
Big Head finds a phone from one of the nucleus program employees and brings it to Richard so he can use it as leverage against Gavin to drop his lawsuit against them. They agree to binding arbitration, so the proceedings will be done in two days instead of being dragged out for months.
The team has to work through the mountainous discovery that Hooli provides before the meeting and Richard works with the attorney to make sure he didn't develop anything for Pied Piper while working for Hooli.
Fifty-One Percent (S5 E8) - 9.2
Pied Piper celebrates their launch of a decentralized internet and it jumps to two months later when the offices are in disarray because it seems to have failed, but there's an uptick in users that might mean success.
Monica and Gilfoyle look into the new user growth and figure out Laurie is trying to steal their network users and shut Pied Piper down.
Two Days Of The Condor (S2 E10) - 9.3
Erlich decides to sell the house as it looks like Pied Piper will lose the intellectual property of their algorithm to Gavin at Hooli.
The Pied Piper live-stream is gaining attention and the team has to scramble to keep it alive as hundreds of thousands are tuning in. The team wonders if they should delete everything to keep it from Hooli.
Optimal Tip-To-Tip Efficiency (S1 E8) - 9.4
The team sees Gavin Belson's nucleus program has figured out their algorithm and can do compression just as quickly as Pied Piper can. Everyone begins to scramble after seeing his presentation.
Jared is out of his mind trying to pivot Pied Piper's purpose as Gilfoyle and Dinesh talk to other companies at the conference and Richard doesn't want to present after Gavin. The team comes together to figure out a crude mathematical hypothesis and it gives Richard an idea for how to beat Gavin.