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Sunday 19 June 2016

Silicon Valley: "Daily Active Users" Review

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Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow.

Tonight's Silicon Valley turned out to be the strongest yet this season, as Pied Piper dealt with their massively underwhelming daily active users (or "DAUs"). In addition to boasting several great twists and turns, this episode was both surprising and delightfully awkward, starting with Laurie's install party where Richard broke the bad news to Monica.

I think we'd all been waiting for the other shoe to drop on Pied Piper's install numbers, and I did wonder if Monica's dislike of the app had to do with the fact she was the only "normal" person to test the beta. Indeed, that turned out to be the case and led to the highly entertaining focus group sequence, in which Richard walked everyone through the app in painstaking detail. To me, it kind of felt like this show's version of helping your tech-averse grandparent set up their computer (I know I've been there), only on a larger scale. ("Pied Piper will in no way become sentient and take over the world.")

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