“I tried to commit suicide,” says Dana, an unfortunate, cringeworthy punch line in an otherwise stellar episode. “How did you injure yourself?” Richard asks. “Dana injured himself on the job, too,” says Jared, trying to find valid connections to keep Richard interested. Jared pulls Richard back into Dana’s orbit by pointing out Richard’s job-related, glass-wall-breaking injuries. Ben expresses intense interest in PP:TNG, which leads Richard astray. Dana invites Jared and Richard to his party, where Richard first meets Ben. “He’s just like you!” Jared says, much to Richard’s disagreement. Richard is not so giddy about the new friend Jared set him up with, because Dana (Dan Mintz, whose voice you might recognize from Bob’s Burgers) is a boring dolt who barely says anything. A giddy, drunk Dinesh thinks he’s found a BFF. Under the guise of friendship, Jeff starts handing Solo cups filled with vodka to Dinesh, who tells him how Gilfoyle’s smart fridge prank back in “ The Patent Troll” eventually saved Pied Piper’s ass. But when Dinesh tells Jeff he cannot hold his liquor, Jeff sees an easy way to get info to deliver back to Gavin. At first, Jeff hates Dinesh’s attempts at bonding. Once in Jeff’s apartment, Dinesh reveals himself to be desperate for a friend. Nobody wants to deal with the quite often obnoxious Dinesh, but Hooli spy Jeff Washburn is caught off-guard and offers Dinesh half his place. Rather than live in his car and risk electrocution, Dinesh flits around the office trying to find someone with whom he can room. While I’d be tempted to blame the exorbitant housing prices in the Bay Area (if you want a good heart attack, look into San Francisco rents), the real reason is that Dinesh spent all his dough on his currently “frucked up” Tesla. Since Jian Yang’s Hacker Hostel takeover rendered the Pied Piper gang homeless, Dinesh hasn’t been able to find affordable new accommodations. Despite Richard’s protestations, Jared thinks he needs friends and that Dana would be a perfect playdate partner. Ben is also a huge monkey wrench in Jared’s plans to platonically hook Richard up with Dana. Dana’s COO, Ben, is Richard’s object of affection. Richard and Dana from Quiver are the CEOs. The love triangle involves two CEOs and the chief operating officer who secretly bounces between them. Writer Carrie Kemper structures “Chief Operating Officer” like an adulterous romantic comedy where the love affair involves cheating on a job level rather than a romantic one. Like almost everyone else on this show, Richard can only truly love the work he does it saves him from having something that loves him back. So, I believe that Jared tells Richard he loves him, just as I believe that processing that emotion would send Richard to the Sunken Place. Woods’s last scene in this episode is a wonderful outburst of emotion that almost made me cry. Silicon Valley plays Jared’s miserable former ordeals for laughs, but there’s an underlying sincerity to his empathy that no mockery can distill. It’s ironic, considering the horrible life he endured before he came to Pied Piper. Jared is the only person comfortably in touch with his emotions and the feelings of others. Goofy Big Head would do anything for Richard despite being fired by him back in “ The Cap Table” and nearly getting fired from Stanford because of him in “ Server Error.”
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Since the series premiere, we’ve been led to believe that Big Head and Richard are best friends, but it’s a rather one-sided relationship. Last season’s “ Intellectual Property” showed that Gavin and Peter Gregory were once buddies until Gavin took out the revenge patent for the decentralized-internet idea. Think about it: Whom would you consider friends on this show? Certainly not Gilfoyle and Dinesh, who at best are frenemies and at worst, brutal adversaries.
Silicon Valley sees friendship and love as either weaknesses to be exploited or uncomfortable elements to be avoided at all costs. He was talking about Richard, and while the line is yet another acknowledgement that the showrunners are aware of that sexy Richard-Jared fan fiction on the ‘net, the line also supports a running theme of this show: Feelings are as terrifying as that song Morris Albert sang about them. This is a quote from last week’s episode, one of those Jared lines that Zach Woods is so good at tossing off nonchalantly. “And then his eyes went dead, like when I tell him I love him.”