The Hopelessness of ‘The Audacity’
The New York Times • • entertainment
Key Points:
- AMC's "Halt and Catch Fire" (2014-2017) portrayed tech entrepreneurs in the early personal-computing era with a sense of passion and optimism about the potential of computers to connect people.
- The new AMC series "The Audacity" presents a much bleaker view of Silicon Valley, depicting it as a place dominated by money and lacking hope, with entrepreneurs exploiting the mass market and others trying to survive on leftovers.
- Unlike the nostalgic and romanticized period drama of "Halt and Catch Fire," "The Audacity" reflects a contemporary Silicon Valley marked by cynicism and parasitic relationships.
- The optimism of earlier tech narratives now seems outdated, highlighting a shift in how the tech industry and its culture are perceived over the past decade.
