A Silicon Valley Satire That Feels Uncomfortably Close to Reality
The Audacity, a dark comedy series from AMC, satirizes the narcissism, greed, and moral decay of Silicon Valley tech CEOs, using its protagonist Duncan Park—a delusional, ambitious data mining CEO—as a lens to explore the human cost of technological ambition, family dysfunction, and the
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