Facebook is destroying the world, you could argue. You get to this place where people are making very sustainable arguments that Facebook and Twitter and these other companies have torn the fabric of society irreparably.
But it made it a lot harder to just be fun and loose and goofy and just make jokes because there was a real weight and import to what was going on. It gave us a lot of story weight and there was a lot of gravitas to what they were doing. Narratively and dramatically, that helped us a lot. And by the end, it had evolved into this thing where it was a group of people who are literally trying to save the world. When we started, it was just guys trying to make their little thing work and make some money. Dave Mandel was my writing partner for 25-plus years and he had very similar things going on at Veep where when the show started, politics was one thing and you could make fun of somebody who was completely vapid and narcissistic because that was the exception to the rule. We started the season keeping an open mind about possibly having a seventh, but once we started writing, it felt like this was the right time to bring it all to a head.īERG I also think the tech industry has changed in a way that is kind of fascinating. MIKE JUDGE It just felt like we can only have them keep failing for so long without it getting old. And I think everybody just felt like it would be a shame if it started to decay as we were doing it. They’ve all got other things going on and I’ve got other things going on and Mike’s got other things going on. And he always felt like, “Look, it’s better to get out on a high note than feel like you stayed one day too long.” The cast are all in a very different place than they are when we started. I was there at Seinfeld when Jerry made the decision to end after season nine after they had thrown a gazillion dollars at him to do seasons 10 and beyond. Why was now the right time to end the show?ĪLEC BERG Well, that’s a very complicated question. “You get to this place where people are making very sustainable arguments that Facebook and Twitter and these other companies have torn the fabric of society irreparably … and it ceases to just become a goofy, fun little show.”Īhead of the finale, Jude and Berg (who wrote and directed it) break down the extra long episode, spill on how they lured a real-life tech titan on the show and reveal whether there’s potential for more Silicon Valley in the future. “It made it a lot harder to just be fun and loose and goofy and just make jokes because there was a real weight and import to what was going on,” he says. “Facebook’s motto back then was ‘move fast and break things,’ and it’s little less cute now that they actually have moved fast and broken things.”īerg compares it to his former writing partner David Mandel’s plight making Veep in the Trump era. “When we started out, it was absurd in more of a funny way … but it has gotten a little more serious now,” says Judge.
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Part of Judge and Berg’s reason for ending the series was the serious turn certain tech companies have taken in recent years. Showrunners Mike Judge and Alec Berg tell The Hollywood Reporter they felt like it was the right time to end the comedy, the latest of a few veteran HBO shows to wrap up in the last year following Veep and Game of Thrones. In order to save the world, they need to make sure Pied Piper fails immediately after its launch. Richard Hendricks (played by Thomas Middleditch) and the rest of the crew finally make a deal to sell their new internet company - to HBO parent company AT&T, no less - but quickly realize that there’s a dangerous element to the encryption that puts the future of humanity at risk. HBO’s Bay Area satire, which debuted in 2014, delivered its series finale in the form of a faux documentary. Ten years into the future, older versions of the main characters share their perspectives on what went down with Pied Piper - and where they all ended up. Silicon Valleyended its run on Sunday night with a surprise time-jump, hundreds of rodents and one big-name guest-star (but not T.J.
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