What if Mike Judge’s cult hit sitcom Silicon Valley were remade as a dramedy and we had in the meantime come to appreciate tech and its titans as existential threats to humanity, I hear you ask. Well, wonder no more – the answer is here, and it is The Audacity. It comes at you in hour-long episodes, which rush past at breakneck speed and leave you panting and deeply unsettled in their wake. Rather like modern life itself, of course, except for the relief available while the credits roll, before the next chunk of horrors arrives.
The Audacity has a sprawling cast (especially in the opening episodes, which really are frenetic) but the figure around which most of the narratives move is Duncan Park (Billy Magnussen). He is the part-bullish, part-neurotic and wholly unbearable CEO of Hypergnosis, a data brokerage company he founded with a friend, who has since been struck by tragedy.
