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

## Series overview

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

## Episodes
### Season 1 (2014)

| 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 |
| 2 | 2 | "The Cap Table" | Mike Judge | Carson Mell | April 13, 2014 (2014-04-13) | 1.69 |
| 3 | 3 | "Articles of Incorporation" | Tricia Brock | Matteo Borghese & Rob Turbovsky | April 20, 2014 (2014-04-20) | 1.62 |
| 4 | 4 | "Fiduciary Duties" | Maggie Carey | Ron Weiner | April 27, 2014 (2014-04-27) | 1.55 |
| 5 | 5 | "Signaling Risk" | Alec Berg | Jessica Gao | May 4, 2014 (2014-05-04) | 1.82 |
| 6 | 6 | "Third Party Insourcing" | Alec Berg | Dan O'Keefe | May 11, 2014 (2014-05-11) | 1.69 |
| 7 | 7 | "Proof of Concept" | Mike Judge | Clay Tarver | May 18, 2014 (2014-05-18) | 1.68 |
| 8 | 8 | "Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency" | Mike Judge | Alec Berg | June 1, 2014 (2014-06-01) | 1.74 |

### Season 2 (2015)

| 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 |
| 10 | 2 | "Runaway Devaluation" | Mike Judge | Ron Weiner | April 19, 2015 (2015-04-19) | 1.73 |
| 11 | 3 | "Bad Money" | Alec Berg | Alec Berg | April 26, 2015 (2015-04-26) | 1.94 |
| 12 | 4 | "The Lady" | Alec Berg | Carson Mell | May 3, 2015 (2015-05-03) | 1.75 |
| 13 | 5 | "Server Space" | Mike Judge | Sonny Lee | May 10, 2015 (2015-05-10) | 1.53 |
| 14 | 6 | "Homicide" | Mike Judge | Carrie Kemper | May 17, 2015 (2015-05-17) | 1.54 |
| 15 | 7 | "Adult Content" | Alec Berg | Amy Aniobi | May 24, 2015 (2015-05-24) | 1.60 |
| 16 | 8 | "White Hat/Black Hat" | Alec Berg | Daniel Lyons | May 31, 2015 (2015-05-31) | 1.78 |
| 17 | 9 | "Binding Arbitration" | Mike Judge | Dan O'Keefe | June 7, 2015 (2015-06-07) | 1.87 |
| 18 | 10 | "Two Days of the Condor" | Alec Berg | Alec Berg | June 14, 2015 (2015-06-14) | 2.11 |

### Season 3 (2016)

| 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 |
| 20 | 2 | "Two in the Box" | Mike Judge | Ron Weiner | May 1, 2016 (2016-05-01) | 1.72 |
| 21 | 3 | "Meinertzhagen's Haversack" | Charlie McDowell | Adam Countee | May 8, 2016 (2016-05-08) | 1.69 |
| 22 | 4 | "Maleant Data Systems Solutions" | Charlie McDowell | Donick Cary | May 15, 2016 (2016-05-15) | 1.89 |
| 23 | 5 | "The Empty Chair" | Eric Appel | Megan Amram | May 22, 2016 (2016-05-22) | 1.71 |
| 24 | 6 | "Bachmanity Insanity" | Eric Appel | Carson Mell | May 29, 2016 (2016-05-29) | 1.62 |
| 25 | 7 | "To Build a Better Beta" | Jamie Babbit | John Levenstein | June 5, 2016 (2016-06-05) | 1.70 |
| 26 | 8 | "Bachman's Earnings Over-Ride" | Jamie Babbit | Carrie Kemper | June 12, 2016 (2016-06-12) | 1.64 |
| 27 | 9 | "Daily Active Users" | Alec Berg | Clay Tarver | June 19, 2016 (2016-06-19) | 1.63 |
| 28 | 10 | "The Uptick" | Alec Berg | Alec Berg | June 26, 2016 (2016-06-26) | 2.04 |

### Season 4 (2017)

| 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 |
| 30 | 2 | "Terms of Service" | Mike Judge | Clay Tarver | April 30, 2017 (2017-04-30) | 0.762 |
| 31 | 3 | "Intellectual Property" | Jamie Babbit | Carrie Kemper | May 7, 2017 (2017-05-07) | 0.774 |
| 32 | 4 | "Teambuilding Exercise" | Jamie Babbit | Meghan Pleticha | May 14, 2017 (2017-05-14) | 0.859 |
| 33 | 5 | "The Blood Boy" | Tim Roche | Adam Countee | May 21, 2017 (2017-05-21) | 0.844 |
| 34 | 6 | "Customer Service" | Clay Tarver | Graham Wagner & Shawn Boxe | May 28, 2017 (2017-05-28) | 0.728 |
| 35 | 7 | "The Patent Troll" | Jamie Babbit | Andrew Law | June 4, 2017 (2017-06-04) | 0.862 |
| 36 | 8 | "The Keenan Vortex" | Jamie Babbit | Graham Wagner & Rachele Lynn | June 11, 2017 (2017-06-11) | 0.798 |
| 37 | 9 | "Hooli-Con" | Mike Judge | Chris Provenzano | June 18, 2017 (2017-06-18) | 0.840 |
| 38 | 10 | "Server Error" | Mike Judge | Dan O'Keefe | June 25, 2017 (2017-06-25) | 0.790 |

### Season 5 (2018)

| 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 |
| 40 | 2 | "Reorientation" | Mike Judge | Carson Mell | April 1, 2018 (2018-04-01) | 0.592 |
| 41 | 3 | "Chief Operating Officer" | Jamie Babbit | Carrie Kemper | April 8, 2018 (2018-04-08) | 0.624 |
| 42 | 4 | "Tech Evangelist" | Jamie Babbit | Josh Lieb | April 15, 2018 (2018-04-15) | 0.610 |
| 43 | 5 | "Facial Recognition" | Gillian Robespierre | Graham Wagner | April 22, 2018 (2018-04-22) | 0.858 |
| 44 | 6 | "Artificial Emotional Intelligence" | Matt Ross | Anthony King | April 29, 2018 (2018-04-29) | 1.02 |
| 45 | 7 | "Initial Coin Offering" | Mike Judge | Clay Tarver | May 6, 2018 (2018-05-06) | 0.853 |
| 46 | 8 | "Fifty-One Percent" | Alec Berg | Alec Berg | May 13, 2018 (2018-05-13) | 0.707 |

### Season 6 (2019)

| 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 |
| 48 | 2 | "Blood Money" | Mike Judge | Carson Mell | November 3, 2019 (2019-11-03) | 0.383 |
| 49 | 3 | "Hooli Smokes!" | Liza Johnson | Sarah Walker | November 10, 2019 (2019-11-10) | 0.459 |
| 50 | 4 | "Maximizing Alphaness" | Liza Johnson | Daisy Gardner | November 17, 2019 (2019-11-17) | 0.452 |
| 51 | 5 | "Tethics" | Pete Chatmon | Lew Morton | November 24, 2019 (2019-11-24) | 0.311 |
| 52 | 6 | "RussFest" | Matt Ross | Carrie Kemper | December 1, 2019 (2019-12-01) | 0.414 |
| 53 | 7 | "Exit Event" | Alec Berg | Alec Berg | December 8, 2019 (2019-12-08) | 0.454 |

## Ratings

| Season | Season | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Average |
| Season | Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Average |
| | 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 |