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Yang’s heavily accented Jian-Yang and occasionally even Dinesh.)

(Less admirably, it continues to indulge in lazy stereotyping and easy, unfunny jokes when it comes to Asian characters like Jimmy O. It also continues to demonstrate a knack for making business and technology strategies a comprehensible and effective component of its storytelling, as Richard encounters a sales force that wants to turn Pied Piper into a faceless commodity sold to soulless corporations. The show continues to score points off the real Silicon Valley’s culture of unapologetic excess - forced to track down Jack, Richard finds him monitoring two of his thoroughbred horses engaging in some extremely graphic breeding - and to generate laughs from the interplay of the misanthropic Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) and the miserable Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani), the show’s Norm and Cliff.

Their nights are still spent at the house, though, and by the third episode events point toward a possible return of operations to their Palo Alto garage. Through a series of events that won’t be spoiled here, the Pied Piper programmers find themselves moving into new offices that are a parody of Google-style adolescent luxury (snack machines, made-to-order breakfasts). (HBO made only three of 10 episodes available for review, a curiously small number these days.) Like other great comedies of stasis - “Barney Miller” with its squad room, “Taxi” with its garage, “Cheers” with Cheers - “Silicon Valley” has been rooted in a place, a slightly squalid Palo Alto house being illegally used as a tech incubator. Everything happens, and nothing happens.Īctually, one major thing changes in Season 3, and its effect on the show’s messy, casual vibe is an open question. The show’s young code-writing heroes are still running like gerbils from one white knight or black hat to another, generating lively misadventures but no revenue. Yet this season, it is no closer to existing in the real world. The algorithm that drives Pied Piper, the MacGuffinish string of computer code around which the series revolves, has existed since the first episode. As “Silicon Valley” begins its third season on HBO on Sunday night, the genius of its central metaphor for the American condition - intellectual, cultural, economic - becomes ever more apparent.