The Audacity Is a Sharp Satire for Tech’s Fear and Self-Loathing Era

In a scene from AMC’s new tech-industry drama The Audacity, two old friends reunite around a crackling campfire. “Men like you and me, we gotta duck when sh-t f-cks the fan,” Randall Park’s Gabe tells his pal turned business partner, Duncan (Billy Magnussen). “Get an island, get some guns, and go long on guillotines.” Gabe is already putting that plan into action. Once a hedonist partying with the proceeds of a website called GambleSluts.com, he’s now living as a paranoiac quasi-hermit on a luxurious private island. As Duncan sadly notes, Gabe has stationed armed guards where models in bikinis used to gyrate. Welcome to the Silicon Valley psyche ca. 2026.