Over the course of Season 2, Silicon Valley eclipsed and eventually surpassed (the also fantastic) Veep as my favorite HBO Sunday night comedy. If you haven’t read Danger’s excellent recap yet, I’d suggest doing so now. As you’re probably already aware, last night’s dizzying finale saw Richard — fresh off his victory over Hooli — getting ousted as CEO of his own company following a string of hilariously bad missteps.
But where is there to go from here? EW spoke with creator Mike Judge about the finale and what his plans are for Richard next season. (Spoiler alert: He has no plans.)
You’ve thrown a big wrench in the works for Richard. What happens to him now? He still has a board seat, and he owns part of the company, right? Where do we find him next season?
Honestly, Alec and I had one conversation about it that was maybe a minute long. We were so trying to get this season done that we’ve barely even talked about it. But there is plenty of real life stuff to draw from here. There are different ways that that’s handled. It happens all the time. Raviga now has the right to hire whoever they want as CEO because they can outvote the others. And it is most likely going to turn into some kind of ugly battle.
Do you see him as an outsider trying to fight his way back in next season?
Yeah, that’s one way to go. We’ve got our work cut out for us. We put that in there not knowing exactly where we were going to go with it. I really don’t have an answer. The situation is, he’s only got one seat and Erlich [T.J. Miller] is his friend, but they can be outvoted on anything. He still owns a big piece of it, though. So he could get rich or other things can happen. People can fight their way back in, like you say. That’s one way to go. We shall see.
Judge also gave a tease that if the theme of this season was “mo’ money, mo’ problems,” the theme for next season would be “mo’ problems, mo’ money.” So, going by that logic, it doesn’t sound like things will get any easier for our ragtag band of programmers anytime soon.
(Via Entertainment Weekly)
