HBO satire · Oct. 17, 2026

HBO Made Succession for Men Who Call Blackmail a Growth Strategy.

A fake data CEO leaks his own deal, blackmails his therapist and spies on his wife's boyfriend. Very disruptive.

Zach Galifianakis as data analytics CEO Jon Taffer in HBO's The Audacity
The Guardian story preview · Ed Araquel / AMC / HBO
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The Guardian calls Jonathan Glatzer's The Audacity a pitch-black Silicon Valley satire. Its fictional data analytics CEO leaks his own acquisition to drive up the price, watches the deal collapse, blackmails his therapist and uses the company's privacy-hacking software to spy on his wife's boyfriend.

This is not a documentary about any one billionaire. It is an industry composite with the ethics settings removed.

Finally, a tech CEO using data to solve the industry's hardest problem: his wife likes somebody else.

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