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“Cheaters never lose, and losers never cheat
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This is the demented advice that mega-rich tech CEO Duncan Park (Billy Magnussen) gives his teenage daughter at the end of the second episode of The Audacity, the lacerating new AMC series about the psychopaths of Silicon Valley, premiering April 12.
Key facts
- This is the demented advice that mega-rich tech CEO Duncan Park (Billy Magnussen) gives his teenage daughter at the end of the second episode of The Audacity, the lacerating new AMC series
- Likewise, you may be reminded of Mike Judge’s startup satire Silicon Valley when someone on the streets of Palo Alto calls Duncan an asshole for driving a Hummer and he yells back, “It’s an EV
- Jonathan Glatzer, creator of The Audacity, was a producer and writer for Succession, whose fans will get some of the same kicks here
- And, contrary to some of its predecessors, The Audacity foregrounds the human wreckage that results from this explosive combination of emotional illiteracy and immense power
Summary
In many ways, Duncan is a familiar archetype. Likewise, you may be reminded of Mike Judge’s startup satire Silicon Valley when someone on the streets of Palo Alto calls Duncan an asshole for driving a Hummer and he yells back, “It’s an EV! But in Glatzer’s story, and with Magnussen’s ticking time-bomb performance, there is something perhaps new and different at play.