Silicon Valley season 4 starts by teetering on the edge of repetition. Enlarge/ A white board for a potential blank- slate restart. Stop me if you've heard this one before: on Silicon Valley, the show's main character, Richard Hendriks (Thomas Middleditch), is actually facing some small degree of success. But he panics in the face of it, then runs headlong into an awkward confrontation with his peers at tech start- up Pied Piper, before drastically changing gears. That's exactly the quandary that Hendriks finds himself in at the beginning of Silicon Valley's new season, which premiered on Sunday. The last season ended with Richard's flailing company getting back on track by . The fourth season begins with Pied Piper's video chat service running into trouble while still growing fast.

Everyone else thinks this service is the company's best bet. But Richard can't focus on it. This leads to a personal confrontation with Dinesh.

Goaded by once- billionaire funder Russ Hanneman (Chris Diamantopolous), who unleashes an amusing stream of dirty talk next to his child's school, Richard decides to take the ultimate . There's reason to be hopeful, thanks to some genuinely funny sequences.

Gavin Belson (Matt Ross) and Jack Barker (Stephen Tobolowsky) have a showdown over air travel that only the super- rich and super- clueless could have. As Dinesh's role rises in the company, Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) wryly remarks that he's happy to have a front- row seat to what he's sure will be a complete meltdown. The fourth season's opening, after all, is very thematically similar to the third. Once again, Richard is at a career crossroads that threatens to take him away from the Pied Piper team. The team's reactions are still funny, but more, well, predictable.

Jared is timid and terrified that he'll be torn away from Richard, again. Bachmann wants to turn change into an opportunity to cash in personally, again.

And of course, Gavin Belson seeks to triumph in business by indulging personal vendettas and ignoring the basic human needs of those in his employ. Enlarge/ The team seems to be splitting up, again, as Silicon Valley's 4th season begins. All of that feels like a repeat of the third season's opener.

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Last year, Belson told his company that . But how many times can Silicon Valley pull off this trick? The writers are in danger of falling into exactly the comedic trap that writer Alec Berg foresaw. The Pied Piper gang are . Watching Richard squirm and react while Russ Hanneman launches into a Lamborghini- powered tirade of assholery is funny.

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If Richard were to actually become a success, what are we going to do? Watch him shop for his own Lambo? Would that be as funny? The first episode lays a satisfying enough . So, will Silicon Valley spend the next few months repeating an old formula—or will the writers want to, you know, say something? Richard Hendricks is pondering a .

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We'll soon find out if the show can deliver.

Of course, the conventional definition of “easy” doesn’t necessarily match up with the Mikaelsons’. RELATEDVampire Diaries Finale: The Story Behind Nina Dobrev’s Surprise Cameo. TVLine spoke with executive producer Michael Narducci about the episode’s biggest twists — and what they could mean for Season 4 — but first, a quick recap: After revealing his undead status to the Mikaelsons — and murking every last Strix member — Marcel gave Elijah and Kol his one- of- a- kind love bite; as if that wasn’t bad enough, Freya was also poisoned. A desperate Hayley woke a still- hexed Rebekah from her slumber in an attempt to quell Marcel’s rage, but the irreversible damage had already been done. Freya was able to prolong the gang’s collective existence by transporting their souls to one of them fancy alternate planes and tethering their lives to Klaus, who went on trial for his many, many, many (just assume this goes on for a few more pages) sins. Given that his jury was literally full of his enemies, it should come as no surprise that he ended up with Papa Tunde’s blade embedded within him by the end of the mistrial.

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Marcel is furious that Davina was so callously put to the side in favor of “Always and Forever,” and when he confronted the Mikaelsons about it, they killed him. And if he hadn’t taken that serum, he’d just be dead, so he has a perfectly valid point. It’s also important to note that Marcel was the King of New Orleans prior to the beginning of this series, and he ruled over a very factious city — there were humans, the werewolves had been expelled and the witches were being held in subjugation. Now, Marcel is going to find himself as the most powerful creature in all the land; the werewolves are still pretty much a non- factor, the humans are down and scared, and the witches have lost their connection to the ancestors. Watch Expecting A Miracle Online Full Movie.

It’s going to be a very different landscape, but it’s still Marcel Gerard. He’s done what he’s done, and how he’ll have to figure out how to live with himself and rule New Orleans. He’s not possessed or evil or a monster by any stretch.

Very soon after the end of our finale, because the Elijah line of vampires won’t drop dead, Marcel is bound to figure out that Elijah is still alive. And when he does that, he’ll think, “Maybe Kol’s not dead either. Or Freya.” All he has as collateral is the long- suffering body of his sire, who’s entombed in an undisclosed place. There are a lot of rich, interesting things to play with moving forward. Blue Seduction Online Putlocker. But the question is: Is this family permanently destroyed, and is Marcel going to be their enemy forever? TVLINE . Who might she turn to for help? There were hints in the finale of what Hayley’s next move is going to be.

I don’t want to say too much, but I don’t think it’s outside the realm of possibility that Hayley will look to find a way — either by using her own vampire power or by using a witch — to try to communicate with . She has a giant puzzle to figure out in order to cure everyone, and given that they’re dying from a wolf bite, I think you can guess who she might turn to. TVLINE . This is a definitive loss on the part of the Mikaelsons. The prophecy predicted they would fall, and they fell. There’s no easy way out of the situation they’re in. Hayley and Marcel are both going to have to start from scratch as he decides how he’s going to deal all these new vampires in town. There’s going to be a lot of story to tell, but I think we’ve painted ourselves into an unbelievable corner, and it’s going to be great fun to get out of this situation.

TVLINE . Will we see them at odds? The great thing about Vincent is that he’s his own man. We’ve seen him stand up to the Mikaelsons, and we saw him recognize the courage and beauty of Cami. He has friends who are police officers, and he has witches he’s sworn to protect. He has a strong moral compass, and I think if Marcel stepped out of line further, becoming the kind of king he was when we met him in Season 1, Vincent would step up and have something to say about that. It could also be best for New Orleans if he tries to find peace, and if that’s the case, he’ll be able to do that. TVLINE . One question is: Are we, as an audience, going to get to see those first words?

If there’s a time jump, maybe not. But given everything that’s happened, and how the Mikaelson family has been so completely deconstructed, Hope is left with no one but Hayley. I’m sure her first word will be “mama.” It’s the person who’s taking care of her right now, it’s got to be “mama.”Your thoughts on The Originals?

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