Thank god this show continues to be hilarious. This week Richard tries desperately to hold on to the god-awful name of Pied Piper for his company, despite the groans of his posse and company T-shirts that look like an elf "sucking a dick with a dick behind his ear, for later... a dick snack." He also channels the advice formerly given to him by his landlord Erlich, to "be an asshole," and plays hardball with the business owner who he discovers already owns rights to the name. Not that any of this matters, because he's racing against the clock with other companies that are nearly copying his algorithm as close as they can so that they can steal the technology.
This week we got to know the ancillary characters better. My favorite is the LaVeyan Satanist Bertram Gilfoyle, played by Martin Starr, who you might remember from Party Down and Freaks and Geeks. He keeps getting Poindexter roles due to his nerdish appearance, so I'm sure he's excited to play a smart-assed occult programmer from Canada for a change. In fact, he even looks kind of hot. He's part of Richard's crew and plays off the square Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani).
While everyone is plugging away back home, Erlich decides to go on a vision quest to try and come up with a better name for the company, so he downs about three ounces of mushrooms and heads for the California hills.
On the way he gets stuck and traffic and starts trippin'-ballz. He takes succor in a gas station restroom where he believes he is in the desert. Eventually he steals a young child who he is sure is the reincarnated version of himself yet in his own lifetime. They really do pack a lot into one episode, eh?
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