“You look like you’re in a cult,” says Richard upon seeing Silicon Valley’s Doublemint Twins. I walked right up to her … and I just LOOKED AT HER for a long time!” Gilfoyle has a much better take: “I’m not one to gush, but the possibilities of your conscience-free reality are darkly promising.” Thanks to Keenan, we have consensus among the show’s two most antagonistic characters, a consensus that leads to a truce and the wearing of those aforementioned identical pajamas. I walked into the tavern and I was able to look all around. When Richard tries it, he literally barfs.ĭinesh’s description of the demo sounds obscenely dull: “I walked up a hill, and at the top there was a tavern. Like the folks on Reddit, they figuratively shit themselves. While Richard tends to contract details, Dinesh and Gilfoyle try the VR demo. “Seven times.” After making Richard grovel in his palapa, Erlich takes him to Keenan to pitch the deal. “As CFO, I have to tell you we’ve already done that,” Jared adds. “That’s like getting a new credit card to pay for your old credit card,” Dinesh says.
The cash infusion from the deal will keep the company afloat. It’s Keenan to the rescue! Richard’s hatred of VR doesn’t prohibit him from asking Erlich if PP: TNG can also store Keenan’s data. Realizing the gravity of this situation, Dinesh implodes in almost operatic fashion, giving Kumail Nanjiani his best scene of the season so far. If Pied Piper can’t pay its bills, Richard’s entire scam of getting customers before finishing PP: TNG will implode. But as we’ve seen time and time again, Richard is not very good at walking the left-hand path. Had Richard been Keenan, he would have gone over to Melcher’s firm and sexed him up like Color Me Badd. “While everyone else’s costs rise, our deal is making me look like a genius,” Dan says excitedly. Panicked, Richard calls Dan, who tells him that the flat rate they agreed upon cannot be altered. The stable, sustainable amount of data that Pied Piper: The Next Generation could afford to store has now blown up to epic, very expensive proportions. The fear of frozen citrus trees and slippery roads sends insurance claims at Dan Melcher’s firm skyrocketing. Dinesh and Gilfoyle are similarly unenthused about key man clauses, though Gilfoyle points out that Keenan’s demo is “making Reddit shit itself.” Also shitting themselves are Californians freaked out by the cold snap plaguing the state.
Richard is far from impressed with Erlich’s news. Score: Keenan Vortex: 1, Pied Piper Crew: 0. Erlich’s deep-seated desire to be deemed important makes him putty in Keenan’s hands. As key man, Erlich will get no extra money, no promotion, and no percentages of Keenan’s VR company - but if Laurie and Monica decide to oust Erlich, Keenan’s deal will be automatically voided. “FUCK YEAH!!!” Erlich screams after learning Keenan fought for him to be his key man on this project. “I was bummed,” Keenan says, “so I turned my phone off, went kite-surfing in Fiji, and then I was chill again.” That provision, which Bream/Hall eventually agreed to, sends Erlich careening through the office halls on the scooter the doctor provided for his broken leg. Keenan explains that Laurie and Monica fought him on the one provision he was adamant to keep. Erlich’s been looking for Keenan all week, as he hadn’t signed his contract. His first stop is Erlich’s new Bream/Hall office. This is Keenan’s episode, so let’s follow him into his vortex. He’s that cool friend who can talk you into anything. “You know you wanna! C’mon! You’re gonna do it!” It makes perfect sense that virtual reality is his thing. Keenan looks at his victim with those twinkly eyes and coos words of encouragement like a tech-savvy cheerleader. Keenan does all this, but he adds a sense of fun and peer pressure to the mix. The Keenan Vortex is almost Biblical in its power, and while it won’t make the lion lie down with the lamb, it does get Dinesh and Gilfoyle to wear matching pajamas while attending a three-day sleepover at Keenan’s house.īack in “ Founder Friendly,” I described the PFM as Action Jack’s ability to read a person, stroke and soothe their emotional weaknesses, and lull them into doing his bidding. Keenan’s use of the PFM is so effective that it has its own name, the “Keenan Vortex,” and not even Action Jack can resist being sucked into it. Action Jack Barker’s signature move, the Psychological Foot Massage, has undergone an extreme metamorphosis at the hands of Keenan Feldspar, the twinkle-eyed hipster bear played superbly by Haley Joel Osment.
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