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The Audacity turns startup hype and inflated self-belief into dark workplace comedy, with biting dialogue and awkward laughs that carry a trace of danger. Venture money and the pursuit of tech-industry status give its morally slippery characters room to indulge their egos. The humor stays uncomfortable, while thriller edges suggest that ambition could turn those absurdities into something more damaging.
Therapy sessions become contests of manipulation rather than a refuge from the workplace. The founder’s dependence on his therapist blurs boundaries, making their exchanges both intimate and combative. Across one escalating story, compromises accumulate instead of disappearing after a joke, and the relationship grows more uneasy as his hunger for success pushes against professional limits.
sharp tech satire, cringe comedy and Drama
Drama and Comedy
Season 1 · 8 episodes
AMC
In the bubble of Silicon Valley, the unorthodox relationship between a wannabe tech titan and his therapist illustrate the Valley's madness and failings.
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Follows a man who investigates a conspiracy after an embarrassing incident at work.
The Audacity and The Chair Company turn workplace embarrassment into dark, uneasy comedy, with ordinary conversations growing more uncomfortable by the minute. One skewers Silicon Valley ambition through tense therapy sessions, while the other follows an office worker whose fixation on a humiliating mishap strains his family life.
Young bankers and traders make their way in the financial world in the aftermath of the 2008 collapse.
The Audacity and Industry make ambition at work feel funny, exhausting, and dangerous, as sharp talk hides how quickly people can be used or discarded. The Audacity needles Silicon Valley egos in awkward therapy sessions; Industry brings that pressure to a London trading floor, with young colleagues burning out amid late nights and shifting loyalties.
A lawyer attends a mindfulness retreat to restore work-life balance but unexpectedly becomes a murderer and mastermind for the mob.
The Audacity and Murder Mindfully find dark comedy in people trying to keep control while their private lives become increasingly messy. The Audacity serves up ego clashes and uneasy laughs in therapy, while Murder Mindfully sets calm wellness talk against a lawyer’s criminal double life, with family secrets and danger closing in at a brisker pace.
