Apr 12, 2026 8:30am PT

AMC Silicon Valley Satire ‘The Audacity’ Is a Sharp, Sweeping Take on What Makes Tech Moguls Tick: TV Review

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Alison Herman

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For a show about men — and some women, but mostly men — working to build the future, “The Audacity” feels a little old-fashioned. That’s mostly a good thing: This ambitious, sprawling, talky satire plays like an artifact of prestige television’s recent, but all too distant-seeming, past. Notably, “The Audacity” airs on AMC, the linear network that once helped kick off the medium’s modern era with “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad,” rather than some deep-pocketed streamer. (More distance from which to lob bombs at giants like Apple or Amazon, which now have Hollywood outposts of their own.) Creator Jonathan Glatzer is an alum of “Succession” and “Better Call Saul,” while other executive producers did stints on “Mad Men” and “Killing Eve” — all dramas it’s hard to imagine getting greenlit in the current age of endless, disposable content. The leads are not movie stars slumming it for an all-but-guaranteed Emmy nomination, but TV veterans who’ve worked their way up the call sheet and earned a spot at the top.

AMC Silicon Valley Satire 'The Audacity' Is a Sharp, Sweeping Take on What Makes Tech Moguls Tick: TV Review