For Woods, even as he’s surrounded by characters [on Silicon Valley] who might threaten to pull him to a more cynical place, there’s a constant reminder of what makes Jared (and by extension, the show) something that people keep returning to.

“I think it’s really important that you feel like there’s a human heart underneath or it just becomes nasty. I don’t like comedy that makes me feel worse about the world than I already felt before I turned it on. I kind of feel like the job of actors and writers and people who make television and movies is to keep people company. In whatever modest way I’m able to accomplish that, I want to.”

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