Silicon Valley, Ep. 2.06, “Homicide” highlights the show’s talent with details
Justice is nice and all but it’s not really dramatic. Want audiences really want is poetic justice, that sense that the justice we’re seeing given out has a twinge of retribution to it as well. It’s no fun to watch someone lose out on an opportunity because they don’t deserve it, it’s a blast to watch someone lose out on an opportunity because they don’t deserve it AND because they messed up in such a way that directly led to their losing of said opportunity. Sure, Gavin Belson is an ass and it’s good TV to watch Nucleus sputter and freeze during its big soft opening of a livestream, but Nucleus’ great public plunder is so entertaining because Gavin Belson is directly responsible, through the firing of Richard and surrounding himself with sycophants, for the Nucleus streamers missing the UFC finishing move of the century.