Could the tech snafu in Silicon Valley’s finale actually happen?
As it often does, fiction mirrors reality, and Silicon Valley is no exception. But as is also often the case, the showrunners push the limits of reality to the extreme, leaving audiences to wonder, “Could that actually happen?” So, we asked someone who would know. Assistant professor David Choffnes, who studies distributed networks and networking, says while the show gets a lot right, some parts of the finale “stretched reality.”