List of Silicon Valley episodes

Silicon Valley is an American comedy television series created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky. The series focuses on five young men who found a startup company in Silicon Valley.^[1][2] The series premiered on April 6, 2014, on HBO.^[3]

In April 2018, HBO renewed the series for a sixth season.^[4] In May 2019, HBO confirmed that season six would be the final season and consist of seven episodes. It premiered on October 27, 2019.^[5][6] During the course of the series, 53 episodes of Silicon Valley aired, between April 6, 2014, and December 8, 2019.

Series overview

Season	Episodes		Originally released
			First released	Last released
1	8		April 6, 2014 (2014-04-06)	June 1, 2014 (2014-06-01)
2	10		April 12, 2015 (2015-04-12)	June 14, 2015 (2015-06-14)
3	10		April 24, 2016 (2016-04-24)	June 26, 2016 (2016-06-26)
4	10		April 23, 2017 (2017-04-23)	June 25, 2017 (2017-06-25)
5	8		March 25, 2018 (2018-03-25)	May 13, 2018 (2018-05-13)
6	7		October 27, 2019 (2019-10-27)	December 8, 2019 (2019-12-08)

Episodes

Season 1 (2014)

Main article: Silicon Valley season 1

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Minimum Viable Product"	Mike Judge	Mike Judge & John Altschuler & Dave Krinsky	April 6, 2014 (2014-04-06)	1.98[7]
2	2	"The Cap Table"	Mike Judge	Carson Mell	April 13, 2014 (2014-04-13)	1.69[8]
3	3	"Articles of Incorporation"	Tricia Brock	Matteo Borghese & Rob Turbovsky	April 20, 2014 (2014-04-20)	1.62[9]
4	4	"Fiduciary Duties"	Maggie Carey	Ron Weiner	April 27, 2014 (2014-04-27)	1.55[10]
5	5	"Signaling Risk"	Alec Berg	Jessica Gao	May 4, 2014 (2014-05-04)	1.82[11]
6	6	"Third Party Insourcing"	Alec Berg	Dan O'Keefe	May 11, 2014 (2014-05-11)	1.69[12]
7	7	"Proof of Concept"	Mike Judge	Clay Tarver	May 18, 2014 (2014-05-18)	1.68[13]
8	8	"Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency"	Mike Judge	Alec Berg	June 1, 2014 (2014-06-01)	1.74[14]

Season 2 (2015)

Main article: Silicon Valley season 2

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	U.S. viewers (millions)
9	1	"Sand Hill Shuffle"	Mike Judge	Clay Tarver	April 12, 2015 (2015-04-12)	2.13[15]
10	2	"Runaway Devaluation"	Mike Judge	Ron Weiner	April 19, 2015 (2015-04-19)	1.73[16]
11	3	"Bad Money"	Alec Berg	Alec Berg	April 26, 2015 (2015-04-26)	1.94[17]
12	4	"The Lady"	Alec Berg	Carson Mell	May 3, 2015 (2015-05-03)	1.75[18]
13	5	"Server Space"	Mike Judge	Sonny Lee	May 10, 2015 (2015-05-10)	1.53[19]
14	6	"Homicide"	Mike Judge	Carrie Kemper	May 17, 2015 (2015-05-17)	1.54[20]
15	7	"Adult Content"	Alec Berg	Amy Aniobi	May 24, 2015 (2015-05-24)	1.60[21]
16	8	"White Hat/Black Hat"	Alec Berg	Daniel Lyons	May 31, 2015 (2015-05-31)	1.78[22]
17	9	"Binding Arbitration"	Mike Judge	Dan O'Keefe	June 7, 2015 (2015-06-07)	1.87[23]
18	10	"Two Days of the Condor"	Alec Berg	Alec Berg	June 14, 2015 (2015-06-14)	2.11[24]

Season 3 (2016)

Main article: Silicon Valley season 3

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	U.S. viewers (millions)
19	1	"Founder Friendly"	Mike Judge	Dan O'Keefe	April 24, 2016 (2016-04-24)	1.86[25]
20	2	"Two in the Box"	Mike Judge	Ron Weiner	May 1, 2016 (2016-05-01)	1.72[26]
21	3	"Meinertzhagen's Haversack"	Charlie McDowell	Adam Countee	May 8, 2016 (2016-05-08)	1.69[27]
22	4	"Maleant Data Systems Solutions"	Charlie McDowell	Donick Cary	May 15, 2016 (2016-05-15)	1.89[28]
23	5	"The Empty Chair"	Eric Appel	Megan Amram	May 22, 2016 (2016-05-22)	1.71[29]
24	6	"Bachmanity Insanity"	Eric Appel	Carson Mell	May 29, 2016 (2016-05-29)	1.62[30]
25	7	"To Build a Better Beta"	Jamie Babbit	John Levenstein	June 5, 2016 (2016-06-05)	1.70[31]
26	8	"Bachman's Earnings Over-Ride"	Jamie Babbit	Carrie Kemper	June 12, 2016 (2016-06-12)	1.64[32]
27	9	"Daily Active Users"	Alec Berg	Clay Tarver	June 19, 2016 (2016-06-19)	1.63[33]
28	10	"The Uptick"	Alec Berg	Alec Berg	June 26, 2016 (2016-06-26)	2.04[34]

Season 4 (2017)

Main article: Silicon Valley season 4

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	U.S. viewers (millions)
29	1	"Success Failure"	Mike Judge	Alec Berg	April 23, 2017 (2017-04-23)	0.867[35]
30	2	"Terms of Service"	Mike Judge	Clay Tarver	April 30, 2017 (2017-04-30)	0.762[36]
31	3	"Intellectual Property"	Jamie Babbit	Carrie Kemper	May 7, 2017 (2017-05-07)	0.774[37]
32	4	"Teambuilding Exercise"	Jamie Babbit	Meghan Pleticha	May 14, 2017 (2017-05-14)	0.859[38]
33	5	"The Blood Boy"	Tim Roche	Adam Countee	May 21, 2017 (2017-05-21)	0.844[39]
34	6	"Customer Service"	Clay Tarver	Graham Wagner & Shawn Boxe	May 28, 2017 (2017-05-28)	0.728[40]
35	7	"The Patent Troll"	Jamie Babbit	Andrew Law	June 4, 2017 (2017-06-04)	0.862[41]
36	8	"The Keenan Vortex"	Jamie Babbit	Graham Wagner & Rachele Lynn	June 11, 2017 (2017-06-11)	0.798[42]
37	9	"Hooli-Con"	Mike Judge	Chris Provenzano	June 18, 2017 (2017-06-18)	0.840[43]
38	10	"Server Error"	Mike Judge	Dan O'Keefe	June 25, 2017 (2017-06-25)	0.790[44]

Season 5 (2018)

Main article: Silicon Valley season 5

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	U.S. viewers (millions)
39	1	"Grow Fast or Die Slow"	Mike Judge	Ron Weiner	March 25, 2018 (2018-03-25)	0.698[45]
40	2	"Reorientation"	Mike Judge	Carson Mell	April 1, 2018 (2018-04-01)	0.592[46]
41	3	"Chief Operating Officer"	Jamie Babbit	Carrie Kemper	April 8, 2018 (2018-04-08)	0.624[47]
42	4	"Tech Evangelist"	Jamie Babbit	Josh Lieb	April 15, 2018 (2018-04-15)	0.610[48]
43	5	"Facial Recognition"	Gillian Robespierre	Graham Wagner	April 22, 2018 (2018-04-22)	0.858[49]
44	6	"Artificial Emotional Intelligence"	Matt Ross	Anthony King	April 29, 2018 (2018-04-29)	1.02[50]
45	7	"Initial Coin Offering"	Mike Judge	Clay Tarver	May 6, 2018 (2018-05-06)	0.853[51]
46	8	"Fifty-One Percent"	Alec Berg	Alec Berg	May 13, 2018 (2018-05-13)	0.707[52]

Season 6 (2019)

Main article: Silicon Valley season 6

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	U.S. viewers (millions)
47	1	"Artificial Lack of Intelligence"	Mike Judge	Ron Weiner	October 27, 2019 (2019-10-27)	0.448[53]
48	2	"Blood Money"	Mike Judge	Carson Mell	November 3, 2019 (2019-11-03)	0.383[54]
49	3	"Hooli Smokes!"	Liza Johnson	Sarah Walker	November 10, 2019 (2019-11-10)	0.459[55]
50	4	"Maximizing Alphaness"	Liza Johnson	Daisy Gardner	November 17, 2019 (2019-11-17)	0.452[56]
51	5	"Tethics"	Pete Chatmon	Lew Morton	November 24, 2019 (2019-11-24)	0.311[57]
52	6	"RussFest"	Matt Ross	Carrie Kemper	December 1, 2019 (2019-12-01)	0.414[58]
53	7	"Exit Event"	Alec Berg	Alec Berg	December 8, 2019 (2019-12-08)	0.454[59]

Ratings

Silicon Valley : U.S. viewers per episode (millions)

Season		Episode number										Average
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	1	1.98	1.69	1.62	1.55	1.82	1.69	1.68	1.74	–		1.72
	2	2.13	1.73	1.94	1.75	1.53	1.54	1.60	1.78	1.87	2.11	1.80
	3	1.86	1.72	1.69	1.89	1.71	1.62	1.70	1.64	1.63	2.04	1.75
	4	0.867	0.762	0.774	0.859	0.844	0.728	0.862	0.798	0.840	0.790	0.812
	5	0.698	0.592	0.624	0.610	0.858	1.02	0.853	0.707	–		0.745
	6	0.448	0.383	0.459	0.452	0.311	0.414	0.454	–			0.417

Audience measurement performed by Nielsen Media Research^[60]