Silicon Valley may be part of sunny California, but in AMC’s satirical new series The Audacity, the comedy is way dark. Creator Jonathan Glatzer (Better Call Saul, Succession) sets this tale about interconnected neighbors all trying to get theirs in San Francisco’s tech hub, and he deftly infuses it with gallows humor, sharp writing, and surprising emotion. It’s an elevated soap in three-quarter zip vests and open-design workspaces.

“These characters live in a world where they all have kids going to the same school and they know each other, because they’re all in the same business or adjacent businesses,” says Glatzer of the insular, money-soaked setting. “So it’s sort of like, ‘Well, what if we turned Silicon Valley into Peyton Place?'”

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