The Audacity Skewers 700 Silicon Valley Horrors in 1 Frenetic Dramedy
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Updated · The Guardian · Oct 22
The Audacity Skewers 700 Silicon Valley Horrors in 1 Frenetic Dramedy
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Oct 22
Summary
Hour-long episodes turn Jonathan Glatzer’s new series into a fast, unsettling satire centered on Hypergnosis CEO Duncan Park, whose leaked acquisition talks with “Cupertino” blow up his company’s future.
Billy Magnussen’s Duncan anchors a cast of “gloriously hateful” tech and therapy figures, with the review singling out Sarah Goldberg’s blackmailable therapist JoAnne and Zach Galifianakis’s growth-obsessed titan Carl Bardolph.
The show’s emotional weight comes from younger characters, especially Jamison, Tess and Orson, whose quiet endurance of greed and narcissism sharpens the series’ attack on tech culture.
After a frenetic opening packed with about 700 side characters, betrayals and deals, the review says the drama settles into a confident blend that can fill the gap left by Succession and Silicon Valley.