‘Silicon Valley’ season 3 spoilers: What’s next for Richard Hendricks?

The second season of “Silicon Valley” did such a great job of setting up the whole showdown between Pied Piper and Hooli, they did not really allow us to take a minute to even consider the possibility of another storyline taking center stage. By this, we are specifically looking at how Richard no longer has any real control over his own company. We never thought too much about the fact that Russ had two seats on the board while Raviga had another, and when Raviga bought out Russ, they suddenly had a majority.

So is the show going to pick up and focus on what happens next to Richard? That seems to be the case, based on what Mike Judge had to say in a new post-finale interview with The Hollywood Reporter:

“Yeah, that’s the setup of next season. There’s this thing that just happened at Twitter actually with Dick Costolo stepping down. That sort of thing happens a lot. It was interesting when we first did the thing where Russ Hanneman has the two board seats. People started going, “Oh, now I see. There’s three board seats out there…” It was interesting to see them try to predict what they thought we were going to do, but I didn’t see anybody predict what we really did — so hopefully we weren’t predictable.”

We’re interested to see just what happens here next, given that there are a wide array of possibilities. Is Richard going to work somewhere else, fight to stick around Pied Piper, or convince some of his friends to abandon ship? We’ll have to wait and see…

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