--- description: The first episode of Silicon Valley, HBO's new comedy about the tech industry, is currently available free on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvkmsI54ss4 HBO posted the 30-minute Silicon... title: Full First Episode of 'Silicon Valley' Available on YouTube image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [YouTube](/tag/youtube/) ## YouTube Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Silicon Valley's_ Entire First Episode Is Available on YouTube by [Alexandra Sifferlin](/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 7, 2014 7:00 PM CUT by [Alexandra Sifferlin](/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 7, 2014 7:00 PM CUT The first episode of _Silicon Valley_, HBO’s new comedy about the tech industry, is currently available free on YouTube. HBO posted the 30-minute _Silicon Valley_ episode to its YouTube channel on Monday, which it also did for this season’s first episode of _Girls_. That way, people who don’t have a subscription to HBO GO–or their parents’ password–can catch a glimpse of the new series. Many HBO GO users had trouble watching Sunday night’s season premiere of _Game of Thrones_ as the site [kept crashing](http://time.com/51346/hbo-go-crashes-game-of-thrones-season-4-premiere/ "undefined") due to a high volume of viewers. A similar situation occurred during the _True Detective_ season finale. HBO is a subsidiary of Time Warner, the parent company of TIME. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/52249/silicon-valley-watch-youtube/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/52249/silicon-valley-watch-youtube/"},"headline":"Silicon Valley's Entire First Episode Is Available on YouTube","datePublished":"2014-04-07T19:00:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:10:40.490Z","description":"The first episode of Silicon Valley, HBO's new comedy about the tech industry, is currently available free on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvkmsI54ss4 HBO posted the 30-minute Silicon...","url":"https://time.com/52249/silicon-valley-watch-youtube/","keywords":["YouTube","Television","HBO","Silicon Valley"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/youtube/","name":"YouTube"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/52249/silicon-valley-watch-youtube/","name":"Silicon Valley's Entire First Episode Is Available on YouTube"}}]}] ```