Last Sunday’s episode of Silicon Valley, “Bad Money,” was probably the best of the entire season. And it was all thanks to the addition of douche ex machina Russ Hanneman, a foul-mouthed, open-shirted, orange-McLaren driving asshole whose douchiness is matched only by his cluelessness. (The act of Hanneman scratching his own sports car with the rivets of his jeans says it all).
But on which controversial Silicon Valley figure is Hanneman most-closely modeled? I guessed Sean Parker — though Sarah Lacy rightly pointed out on PandoLIVE that Hanneman is more akin to The Social Network‘s flashed-up version of Parker than the real thing.