Silicon Valley (Season 5) TV Series Details:
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Comedy, Drama |
Season | 5 |
Episodes | 8 |
Release date | March 25, 2018 – May 13, 2018 |
Running time | 28–47 minutes |
Age rating | TV-MA |
Starring | Thomas Middleditch Josh Brener Martin Starr Kumail Nanjiani Amanda Crew Zach Woods Matt Ross |
Created by | John Altschuler Dave Krinsky Mike Judge |
Directed by | Mike Judge Liza Johnson Pete Chatmon Alec Berg Matt Ross |
Written by | Carrie Kemper Lew Morton Mike Judge Sarah Walker Daisy Gardner Ron Weiner Carson Mell Alec Berg |
Produced by | Alonzo Nevarez Jim Kleverweis Alec Berg Mike Judge Carrie Kemper Lisa Schomas (Co-Producer) Jonathan Dotan (Co-Producer) |
Executive Producer | Tom Lassally Lew Morton Michael Rotenberg Clay Tarver Carson Mell |
Cinematography by | Tim Suhrstedt |
Edited by | Al LeVine Gina Sansom |
Music by | Jeff Cardoni |
Casting by | Nicole Abellera Jeanne McCarthy Leslie Woo |
Production Designer | Richard Toyon |
Production Company | Alec Berg Inc. Judgemental Films Altschuler Krinsky Works HBO Entertainment 3 Arts Entertainment |
Distributor | HBO |
Silicon Valley (Season 5) TV Series Cast & Character:
- Thomas Middleditch as Richard Hendricks
- Josh Brener as Nelson “Big Head” Bighetti
- Martin Starr as Bertram Gilfoyle
- Kumail Nanjiani as Dinesh Chugtai
- Amanda Crew as Monica Hall
- Zach Woods as Donald “Jared” Dunn
- Matt Ross as Gavin Belson
- Suzanne Cryer as Laurie Bream
- Jimmy O. Yang as Jian-Yang
- Chris Williams as Hoover
- Chris Diamantopoulos as Russ Hanneman
- Ben Feldman as Ron LaFlamme
- Bernard White as Denpok
- Andy Daly as Doctor
- Emily Chang as Herself
- Ping Wu as Henry
- Tzi Ma as Yao
- Scott Prendergast as Scott
- Jill E. Alexander as Patrice
- Anna Khaja as Rachel
- Rachel Rosenbloom as Becky
- Chris Aquilino as Danny
Storyline:
In the fifth season, the Pied Piper team gets new offices and hires a large team of coders to help work on Richard’s new internet. Meanwhile, Jian-Yang manages to convince a judge that Erlich is dead so that he can inherit Erlich’s estate, including the idea incubator and the 10% share of Pied Piper. Richard promotes Jared to be the new chief operating officer for Pied Piper, and Jian-Yang goes to China to build a knock-off version of Pied Piper. Bream-Hall forces Richard to team up with Eklow, an AI team, and Pied Piper puts together a group of developers. When Eklow’s CEO almost destroys Pied Piper’s credibility, Richard becomes fed up with Laurie and considers using Gilfoyle’s idea to create a cryptocurrency for Pied Piper as a way to secure an independent source of funding. After initially opposing the idea, Monica realizes that Laurie plans to make Richard sell ads for his decentralized internet, and warns him. In gratitude, Richard offers her the newly vacated role of CFO at Pied Piper, and she accepts, finally cutting ties with Laurie. After unimpressive results from their cryptocurrency, Pied Piper is distraught when Laurie teams up with a wealthy Chinese manufacturer, Yao, who had been working with Belson to steal Jian-Yang’s Pied Piper patent. Yao and Laurie add users to Pied Piper’s network via a large number of newly manufactured phones, and prepare for a 51% attack against Pied Piper’s network in order to take control of developing it. Richard asks Belson to put their software onto Hooli’s Signature Box 3 network in order to stop Yao and Laurie, and Belson does so, but betrays Richard by teaming up with Laurie and Yao to delete Pied Piper. At the last minute, Pied Piper recruits Colin, another developer betrayed by Laurie, to run his popular video game Gates of Galloo on the Pied Piper network, adding users and allowing Pied Piper to maintain control of enough of the network to block Yao’s and Hooli’s machines from accessing it. Meanwhile, due to the losses incurred in launching the unsuccessful Signature Box 3, Hooli’s board of directors announce plans that force Belson to sell the company to Amazon and Jeff Bezos. PiedPiperCoin gains traction, and the season ends with the Pied Piper team moving into a huge new office space vacated by Hooli.
About Silicon Valley (Season 5) TV Series:
In May 2017, the series was renewed for a fifth season, and it was announced that T.J. Miller would not return to the series for the fifth season.For this season, Clay Tarver was promoted to executive producer and co-showrunner alongside Mike Judge and Alec Berg, who also serve as showrunners and executive producers.
The fifth season of the American comedy television series Silicon Valley premiered in the United States on HBO on March 25, 2018. The season contained 8 episodes, and concluded on May 13, 2018.The fifth season was released on DVD only (no Blu-ray) on September 4, 2018.