This week’s Silicon Valley made me think of “Let’s Hear it for the Boy.” I’m sure you remember that bouncy Deniece Williams classic from 1984’s Footloose. It’s my generation’s “My Funny Valentine.” Both are songs about a guy who gets the girl despite being so ugly he makes a platypus look like Idris Elba. It’s an understatement to say that these ditties damn with faint praise, and yet, the listener doesn’t feel sorry for the poor chap. The guy whose face only a mother could love somehow managed to find someone who shared his mama’s sentiment.
“The Blood Boy” insinuates that ugly folks have found a profession that loves them back, too. It’s called Information Technology. Into our beloved, gnarled and hallowed halls of zeroes and ones comes a pretty boy named Bryce. Bryce is this episode’s titular character, a man who literally bleeds for I.T. Bryce has a degree in C.S., but fears he is too pretty to be taken seriously by the gods and monsters who control all the code in the universe. So, to get an audience with Gavin Belson, he has become a……..
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