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Have been enjoying the show thus far this year though not too many 'stand out' episodes. The show, and characters, have found their footing though with this week's 'Homicide' episode, and the SWOT analysis Dinesh and Gilfoyle conduct after discovering a stuntman for the energy drink 'Homicide' miscalculated his math for a rooftop jump that will be live streamed using Pied Piper software. Here's a summary from EW, and their SWOT analysis. This isn't as funny as their 'middle out' math scene from last year's finale, but it's hilarious nonetheless.
Sunday night’s episode of Silicon Valley, “Homicide,” featured one of the HBO comedy’s best moments of the season, as Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani) and Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) craftily contorted a SWOT matrix—a corporate method of determining the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of a decision—into something amazingly disturbed and absurd.
After trying to alert Homicide stuntman/horrible person Blaine (Dustin Milligan) to a fatally flawed math error in his calculations for his building-jumping feat, only to be rudely brushed off, our Pied Piper programmers dedicated their time to evaluating—in great detail—the pros and cons of keeping their mouths shut and letting Blaine meet his fiery death. Factoring into their analysis: Dinesh’s lust for Homicide event manager Gina (Porter Lynn), Blaine’s girlfriend. (Sample strength: “Blaine’s last moment is realizing face is gone.” Sample opportunity: “Grief threesome with Gina and Blaine’s hot mom?”)
The biting scene elevated to watch-through-your-fingers level when Blaine entered the room—in which the boys had constructed a “Let Blaine Die” SWOT board on the wall—and started to genuinely apologize for his awful behavior, while Dinesh and Gilfoyle were nervously praying that he wouldn’t turn around and see their evil work directly behind him. But turn he did, cranking the knob of awkwardness all the way up until it broke off.
Have been enjoying the show thus far this year though not too many 'stand out' episodes. The show, and characters, have found their footing though with this week's 'Homicide' episode, and the SWOT analysis Dinesh and Gilfoyle conduct after discovering a stuntman for the energy drink 'Homicide' miscalculated his math for a rooftop jump that will be live streamed using Pied Piper software. Here's a summary from EW, and their SWOT analysis. This isn't as funny as their 'middle out' math scene from last year's finale, but it's hilarious nonetheless.
Sunday night’s episode of Silicon Valley, “Homicide,” featured one of the HBO comedy’s best moments of the season, as Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani) and Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) craftily contorted a SWOT matrix—a corporate method of determining the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of a decision—into something amazingly disturbed and absurd.
After trying to alert Homicide stuntman/horrible person Blaine (Dustin Milligan) to a fatally flawed math error in his calculations for his building-jumping feat, only to be rudely brushed off, our Pied Piper programmers dedicated their time to evaluating—in great detail—the pros and cons of keeping their mouths shut and letting Blaine meet his fiery death. Factoring into their analysis: Dinesh’s lust for Homicide event manager Gina (Porter Lynn), Blaine’s girlfriend. (Sample strength: “Blaine’s last moment is realizing face is gone.” Sample opportunity: “Grief threesome with Gina and Blaine’s hot mom?”)
The biting scene elevated to watch-through-your-fingers level when Blaine entered the room—in which the boys had constructed a “Let Blaine Die” SWOT board on the wall—and started to genuinely apologize for his awful behavior, while Dinesh and Gilfoyle were nervously praying that he wouldn’t turn around and see their evil work directly behind him. But turn he did, cranking the knob of awkwardness all the way up until it broke off.
