Silicon Valley: Tech Gets A Fresh New Heart You don’t have to have seen Silicon Valley before to dive into the pleasure that awaits you in the third-season premiere Sunday night on HBO. Yes, it begins exactly where the previous season left off, but that simply means Richard, the perennially anxious, dithering tech genius played by Thomas Middleditch, is still getting used to the idea that he’s now a mere employee of the start-up he started up. Due to a combination of over-thinking and being out-maneuvered, Richard has lost control over Pied Piper, and is coping with having his brilliant data-compression creation overseen and marketed by people he’s not sure he trusts–and with good reason.
