Now that we know HBO’s Silicon Valley will end after its upcoming sixth and final season, we have so many questions. The series about five young men who find a start-up tech company in Silicon Valley and must deal with the trials and tribulations of getting it off the ground, has given viewers a glimpse into the high-tech hub.
With characters that serve as exaggerated versions of real-life tech titans like Mark Cuban and Peter Thiel, the show is part parody, part realistic in terms of the stereotypical people you’d find working in tech. Fictional companies like Hooli poke fun at companies like Google, while other parallels between characters, companies, and situations, are apparent to anyone who’s familiar with how the tech industry.
When we left the gang in season five, things were looking up for Pied Piper, and they were ready to move into massive office space once again. But we’ve seen it once before, and they’ve crashed as hard as they’ve grown. While we’ll have a while to wait until the last seven episodes of season 6 premiere in late 2019 or even not until early 2020, here are 10 things we think need to happen before the series meets its end.
Richard and Monica Get Together
These two have flirted around one another for several seasons now, so we wish they would just get together, already, and make their feelings known!
Once all the dust settles on the business front, we hope Richard (Thomas Middleditch), the CEO of Pied Piper and inventor of the technology behind its incredible compression algorithm, and Monica, former employee of a VC firm who joins Pied Piper as its CFO in season five, finally seal the deal. Talk about a tech power couple!
Gavin Belson is Fired...For Good
Gavin Belson is the money-hungry, irrational, unstable CEO and founder of Hooli who lives to fuel his own ego. Serving as the constant thorn in Richard’s side, trying to undercut him and his technology any chance he gets.
Self-absorbed, Belson needs to be fired once and for all, and be forced not to escape to a foreign country on his expensive private jet but be left to face the music back in California. At the end of the last season, we know he was going to be forced to sell the company. But will be find yet another way around things to remain in power? Here’s hoping his reign finally comes to an end.
See Another Side of Laurie
Laurie, portrayed as the socially inept head of Bream Hall Capital, expresses herself with zero emotion. As an apparently superhuman woman in tech who amazingly balances work and career, Laurie apparently has a baby at some point, and returns to work a day later as though nothing had happened. We need to meet this child before the show ends, and see Laurie as a doting mom.
A Tribute to Peter Gregory
Peter Gregory, one of the biggest investors in Silicon Valley, was killed off after unusual circumstances after the first season when the actor who played him, Christopher Evan Welch, sadly passed away.
A compelling and hilarious character who perfectly personified the quirky and complex way some genius investors think, it would be fitting if the show somehow paid tribute to him in the final episodes.
Dinesh Start His Own Company
Dinesh has always had high hopes, and even though his short period of time leading Pied Piper almost took down the entire company after unintentionally violating children’s online privacy protection rules, he’s an intelligent programmer with plenty of great ideas.
So we’d love to see him branch out and start his own firm, perhaps taking over Erlich’s old house and incubating the next generation of tech innovators.
Jian-Yang Redeems Himself
Jian-Yang began as an annoying tenant in Bachman’s house with a seemingly endless list of silly app ideas. But he grew to become a real threat (still with lots of silly ideas) when he got hold of the Pied Piper patent.
We need to see him make peace with the gang, and perhaps even join Pied Piper. Or simply go away. Maybe he finally gets one of his crazy app ideas off the ground and makes millions.
Jeff Bezos Makes a Cameo?
It might be wishful thinking, but in the final episode of season 5, Pied Piper manages to fend off an attack from Belson, and Hooli loses tons in the process.
So the corporation’s board of directors decides to force Belson to sell the company to none other than Amazon. Could we see a scene with Jeff Bezos himself making a cameo, as the person now heading up Hooli? It would be absolutely fantastic, and even better if Belson was there to seethe.
Jared Finally Gets the Squatter Out of His House
We learned a while back that Jared was sleeping in a garage, or anywhere he could, really, because he rented out his home once and the person wouldn’t leave. Then, he was living with roommates. Before the series ends, we need to see Jared, one of the most beloved characters, finally get his own living quarters. Even better, we’d love to see him get a total makeover and move into a massive mansion, with a bevy of woman knocking down his door. He deserves it for being so fiercely loyal to Richard all those years after leaving his post as Belson’s right-hand man at Hooli.
Nelson “Big Head” Bighetti Becomes Famous
“Big Head” has been an enigma through the series, holding down serious job titles while not really being very skilled at much of anything. One of Richard’s oldest friends, he keeps finding himself in the right place at the right time and enjoying tremendous success purely by accident. Through this consistently upward climb, he got mega-rich.
We’d love to see Big Head’s, well, big head, posted on more magazine covers and billboards all over Silicon Valley, if for no other reason than to serve as a commentary on how many unimpressive people are put on pedestals in the tech world while real stars get none of the spotlight. Maybe he comes upon a major tech discovery by accident, or becomes the spokesperson for Slurpees. Never mind the reason, just make it happen. It would be completely ironic but totally hilarious.
Pied Piper Finally Hits it Big
We’ve watched Richard go so through so many ups and downs trying to get his legitimately great tech off the ground. So the series needs to end the sweetest way possible, with Pied Piper becoming the next Hooli, and taking over Silicon Valley.
And Richard and all of the other guys living it up because of it. After five seasons of drama, dealing with eccentric VCs, shady takeovers, lackluster products that were forced upon them, and greedy competition, they so deserve it.