Another masterpiece from Mike Judge. He always does a completely different vibe (Beavis & BH, Office Space, King of the Hill, Silicon Valley). It's equally impressive and interesting how Mike Judge operates. I honestly have no clue what his next thing will be (other than the return of King of the Hill), but I am certain that I will not see it coming and I will love it.
I loved the casting in Silicon Valley (especially Jared, Richard, Gavin and Gilfoyle), and it was, in my opinion, Thomas Middleditch's breakout role. He was everywhere after those first few seasons; especially those stupid Verizon commercials.. lol. But I honestly thought that T.J. Miller left at just the right time, if not a smidge too late. He fit and made sense the first 3 seasons, but then he just had no place and his personality just didn't really mesh with the core group. Gilfoyle is the funny prick, Dunesh is the desparate egomaniac, Jared is the ultimate beta male with a slight splash of crazy serial killer, and Richard is the socially awkward genius, typical tech icon type (Gates, The Zuck, and kind of a mixture of Woz and Jobs in the sense of the Woz's hands on skill and Jobs's visionary). TJ Miller just didn't fit. I never really liked him before this show, so I may have been a little biased coming into the show, but he just played the same character he always plays... loud and obnoxious, always has to be the funniest character in the room, and he's a stoner who gets messed up on occasion. Not my cup of tea, and typically not a Mike Judge kind of actor.
All in all, this was an amazing journey of a show. It never got stale. The story always kept jumping up at you and yanking you on another roller coaster ride that Richard somehow finds a way to safely stop while also being on the coaster while it's moving. Mamba Mentality, lol.
I hope Alec is right and there will be a Silicon Valley movie in the future; following the story of where the orange flash drive is, and it could possibly be heavily AI themed, what with that basically being the "weapon" that Pied Piper became.