'Silicon Valley' Season 6 Episode 6 promo has Richard wondering if he'll end up in prison as trouble befalls RussFest
With only two episodes left, ‘Silicon Valley’ is right now in a place of extreme uncertainty. In episode 5 of season 6, 'Tethics', we saw Gavin Belson (Matt Ross) screw over Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch) by asking for his actions at Hooli to be investigated.
Hooli, now owned by PiedPiper, being investigated would mean Richard’s dreams collapsing. It was a lose-lose situation for him. Fortunately (or unfortunately), Russ Hanneman (Chris Diamantopoulos) came to his rescue.
He told Richard that he had dirt on the attorney general and that if PiedPiper agreed to work with his new project “RussFest”, he would make his troubles go away. Hanneman has been fashioned after ‘Shark Tank’ star and investor Mark Cuban, who got rich after he sold Broadcast.com, an internet radio company, to Yahoo.
Over the years, Russ has developed a reputation acquired along with flashy sports cars, calf implants, and a gratuitous lifestyle. And RussFest, from the looks of it, is a cross between Burning Man, an art festival held annually in the Black Rock Desert of northwest Nevada, and Fyre Festival, con-man Billy McFarland’s concert-cum-party through which he defrauded investors of $27.4 million.
In the promo for episode 6, we see things go down at RussFest. Russ, dressed up in scuba diving gear, asks Richard about his hologram at the festival. He says, “My hologram can one hundred percent dry hump festival-goers from behind -- if they ask for it. Hashtag woke.”
We also get to see the hologram in question, a larger-than-life projection of Russ that looms over everyone at the festival. Of course, things start going wrong. We see power outages in the festival and Bertram Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) tells Richard, “Everything was fine, then the network started deteriorating.” Richard, who is a nervous wreck by default, asks Jared Dunn (Zach Woods), “What did we do? Am I going to jail?” to which Jared creepily replies, “Hey. I can train you.”
New episodes of ‘Silicon Valley’ premiere Sundays at 10 p.m. on HBO.