News Summary

• The Audacity is a lacerating new AMC series about the psychopaths of Silicon Valley.
• Creator Jonathan Glatzer was a producer and writer for Succession, whose fans will get some of the same kicks here.
• In his petulance and boundary-crossing, his belief that market manipulation is the only sensible way to do business, Duncan evokes the masculinity-in-crisis that has become a dominant theme of American billionaire culture.
• The Audacity foregrounds the human wreckage that results from this explosive combination of emotional illiteracy and immense power.