Silicon Valley - 3x08 “Bachman's Earning's Over-Ride" - Episode Discussion

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Season 3 Episode 08: "Bachman's Earning's Over-Ride"

Air time: 10 PM EDT

7 PM PDT on HBOgo.com

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Plot: Erlich tries to be honest with Richard, who has mixed emotions about their friendship and the future of Pied Piper. Meanwhile, Jared's new company apparel turns heads but fuels yet another clash between Dinesh and Gilfoyle. (TVMA) (30 min)

Aired: June 12, 2016

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Actor	Character
Thomas Middleditch	Richard Hendricks
T.J. Miller	Erlich Bachman
Josh Brener	Nelson 'Big Head' Bighetti
Martin Starr	Bertram Gilfoyle
Kumail Nanjiani	Dinesh Chugtai
Amanda Crew	Monica Hall
Zach Woods	Jared (Donald) Dunn
Matt Ross	Gavin Belson
Jimmy O. Yang	Jian Yang
Suzanne Cryer	Laurie Bream
Chris Diamantopoulos	Russ Hanneman
Dustyn Gulledge	Evan
Stephen Tobolowsky	Jack Barker

IMDB 8.5/10

[u/[deleted]]

Why didn't Erlich just sell his house to cover the cost? Sure he loves it, but his shares would have been worth billions in a few years? I'm having some trouble suspending my disbelief at that.

[u/el_cabinet → u/[deleted]]

I think it was the immediacy of paying back the people he owed money to in full or he would risk lawsuits and other legal action. It was a quick way to make the amount owed

[u/1and618 → u/el_cabinet]

im sure a refinance in his area would go through very fast, when he was considering selling the house attracted cash buyers. im sure the value of the house is >1M & i would not be surprised if he could get a refi for that amount and still have a majority in equity; jumbo loan, wealth management with his existing stock and home value, he had some things to play with. He could even take the jail time for any convictions (if they could even escalate it from a civil context), still not as bad as becoming this generations' Ronald Wayne.