Silicon Valley: The Complete Third Season

The third season of HBO's satire of software start-ups begins with Richard (Thomas Middleditch), a genius software developer with terrible social skills and no mind for business, demoted to chief technology officer in his own company, Pied Piper, while the new CEO (Stephen Tobolowsky) charts a new direction. The problem is that this fresh path has nothing to do with the possibilities of the software, so Richard and his friends go behind the CEO's back to develop their own ideas. Meanwhile, their corporate nemesis, Gavin Belson (Matt Ross) at the Google-like Hooli, faces a disastrous new launch; self-proclaimed mentor Erlich (T.J. Miller) manages to blow through the millions of dollars that the lovable but dim Big Head (Josh Brener) received when he was let go from Hooli; and Pied Piper is offered for sale when the top shareholders lose faith in Richard's disastrous track record as a businessman…just as Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani) finds a promising new application for Richard's technology. The humor of this Mike Judge-created savvy take on the 21st-century version of the American Dream revolves around the techies' arrested-adolescence-driven behavior in an ostensibly grown-up world of business plans and public relations. Compiling all 10 episodes of the 2016 third season, extras include deleted scenes. Recommended. (S. Axmaker)