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. It’s awful parenting, naturally, but the lesson also neatly encapsulates the rhetoric of Duncan’s particular bubble: It sounds counterintuitively clever but is wildly wrong—a bad idea pulled out of thin air by an overprivileged mediocrity who wants more than anything to be perceived as a genius. In many ways, Duncan is a familiar archetype. By now you’ve seen plenty of movies and TV shows that skewer and punish the One Percent as they find ever more reprehensible ways to behave toward their peers and underlings. Jonathan Glatzer, creator of The Audacity, was a producer and writer for Succession, whose fans will get some of the same kicks here. 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! I’m part of the solution! Bitch!” But in Glatzer’s story, and with Magnussen’s ticking time-bomb performance, there is something perhaps new and different at play. Could this be television’s first true broligarch? Duncan wears the puffer vest that has been the industry standard for years, though his Zoomer haircut brings to mind the youngsters of Elon Musk’s DOGE. When the crucial sale of his company Hypergnosis to an Apple-like behemoth falls through, he books a session with an on-demand ayahuasca shaman. He gets offended when a diagnostic evaluation reveals that he is neurotypical—he’d always assumed he was on the spectrum. In his petulance and boundary-crossing, his belief that market manipulation is the only sensible way to do business, and his growing suspicion that it was his dead former partner who carried him to the top, Duncan evokes the masculinity-in-crisis that has become a