The first teaser for the new season, which premiered today on YouTube (and which I first saw thanks to Entertainment Weekly), brings us back into the orbit of Pied Piper, the promising-yet-dysfunctional fictional startup company at the center of the show. There are some mild spoilers if you’re not all caught up yet, but more importantly, the brief clip contains a cameo of Big Dog, the powerful and often eerie robotic pack animal developed by Boston Dynamics, which has appeared numerous times here on Popular Science. (Boston Dynamics was acquired by Google in 2013.) The poor robot, which has already received its share of abuse from its human masters, appears to be once again getting literally kicked around. Although this time, it has antlers, as it did when impersonating reindeer in a recent Boston Dynamics video. Perhaps for a winter holiday-themed episode? Whatever is going on, count me in.
