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“The Audacity,” AMC’s tech bro dramedy starring Billy Magnussen (“Game Night,” 2018), premieres Sunday, April 12, on AMC and AMC+. Zach Galifianakis in “The Audacity”
Cover Story Feeling audacious: Silicon Valley goes to therapy in new AMC series By Dana Simpson Since the rise of digital technology tycoons Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and Joe Liemandt in the 1980s, the United States — and more specifically, Silicon Valley, California — has positioned itself as the center of excellence for Big Tech. In 2026, the Bay Area hub is home to AI monoliths Nvidia, Apple, Google and Meta, as well as a sea of start-up companies. Along with this industry boom came the term “tech bro,” which, for many, instantly conjures the image of a 20-something-year-old man in a fleece vest or hoodie carrying a coffee to his stark white desk before taking a nap in the office sleep pod. (Anyone who has seen “Succession” Season 4 already knows that GoJo founder Lukas Matsson, played by “True Blood’s” Alexander Skarsgard, is exactly this type of character.) And although tech bros come in many different iterations (not unlike the iPhones they hawk), there is no denying that the most successful of their kind often wear their lanyards with a strong
sense of entitlement and a low threshold for mundanity. This, dear TV viewer, is exactly what AMC addresses in its new series “The Audacity,” from creator Jonathan Glatzer (“Bad Sisters”). Premiering Sunday, April 12, on AMC and the AMC+ streaming service, “The Audacity” tells the story of budding tech mogul Duncan Park (Billy Magnussen, “Game Night,” 2018), who is slowly coming to terms with Silicon Valley’s toxicity — and his own — through a series of discussions with his therapist (played by “Barry” star Sarah Goldberg). “Set inside the bubble of Silicon Valley, ‘The Audacity’ takes on the warped dreams, outsized egos and ethical lapses of the self-styled inventors of the future,” the AMC description for the series reads. “In a world of jaded billionaires, psychiatrist-gurus, bio-hacked tech bros, AI labs and disillusioned teens being optimized in elite private schools, an audacious data-mining CEO [Magnussen] strives to turn insight and influence into profit and power.”
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The series, also referred to as “a darkly comedic drama that confronts reality, privacy and the delusions fueling our ever-changing world,” pulls no punches with respect to its critique of the high-tech industry. Having been credited with (or perhaps accused of, depending on your perspective) “tearing Silicon Valley a new one” by Mashable.com writer Belen Edwards, “The Audacity” really could not come at a better time. “There are timely topics on the show,” leading man Magnussen said during the SXSW Studio panel on March 14. “I’m definitely not claiming to be a tech expert or anything, but I think it’s the humanity that Jonathan Glatzer has put into these characters. “The show is about people that went into this world with good intentions, wanting to build the perfect product. And they’re flawed themselves, and then they had money added onto that power wealth. But the story that’s fun is the corruption of that power, the weight of all that stuff, and these people try-
ing to be these larger-than-life titans in this world, but they’re still just humans that have faults.” Magnussen’s co-star Simon Helberg (“The Big Bang Theory”), who plays Martin Phister in “The Audacity,” agreed with Magnussen’s statement, adding, “The way that I see it, when we were going to work, it feels like, ‘We better tell this story now, because this is also going to be a headline in six hours.’” Joining Magnussen, Goldberg and Helberg on-screen are Zach Galifianakis (“The Hangover,” 2009) as Carl Bardolph; Lucy Punch (“Amandaland”) as Duncan’s wife, Lili Park-Hoffsteader; Paul Adelstein (“The Menu,” 2022) as Goldberg’s on-screen husband, Dr. Gary Felder; Rob Corddry (“Childrens Hospital”) as Tom Ruffage; Ava Marie Telek (“Happy Face”) as Duncan and Lili’s daughter, Jamison; and Meaghan Rath (“Hawaii Five-0”) and Thailey Roberge (“Reginald the Vampire”) as Helberg’s on-screen wife and daughter, Anushka and Tess, respectively.
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