Dinesh's (Kumail Nanjiani) new position leads to some serious conflict in the upcoming episode of HBO's "Silicon Valley" season 4.
Titled "Terms of Service," next week's episode will see Dinesh and Richard (Thomas Middleditch) get into a heated discussion. According to the official synopsis, the two characters will be at each other's throats when Dinesh's becomes too proud of his new position. Richard eventually learns more interesting data about the users of PiperChat.
Elsewhere, Gavin (Matt Ross) becomes too paranoid over Jack's (Stephen Tobolowsky) enthusiasm. His reaction forces him to make a reckless decision. Jared (Zach Woods) sets new ground rules in his friendship with Richard, while Erlich (T.J. Miller) does a clever move in an effort to be part of Jian-Yang's (Jimmy O. Yang) new app.
HBO's tech-spoofing comedy kicked off its fourth season on Sunday, shifting its storyline to the internal problems plaguing the show's team of programmers. This marks a significant switch from the external conflicts they usually deal with as a group.
Co-creator Mike Judge recently caught up with The Hollywood Reporter and he teased what's next for the group in the coming episodes. "This season they make a big move," said Judge, who co-created the comedy with Alec Berg. "I think we've realized — and our characters have realized — that they can't pivot anymore. They have to make a decision to go for something big."
Judge is pertaining to Richard's new journey, which leads him to doubt his loyalty to Erlich, Dinesh, Jared, and Gilfoyle (Martin Starr). As previously hinted, Richard is trying to reinvent the Internet on his own. The co-creator explained that they have been thinking about exploring that storyline back in season 3, but they decided to just save it for this season.
"It's basically starting a new Internet that's a decentralized version," Judge further explained, "similar to the way Bitcoin works, that can't be shut down by anybody because it's sharded out over multiple devices and spread out in the block chain model."
The fourth season of "Silicon Valley" airs every Sunday at 10 p.m. EDT on HBO.
