Did AMC+ Finally Produce Something Worth Watching Not Related to Anne Rice?

For a brief period in the aughts, AMC was the Mad Men network. And then the Breaking Bad network. And then The Walking Dead came along and obliterated the network’s identity. It still had Breaking Bad and then Better Call Saul, but the network was and still is largely defined by The Walking Dead franchise, which is currently limping toward some future finish line with two broken legs and a head injury.

More recently, Anne Rice has essentially taken over the network with mixed results. Interview with a Vampire is outstanding, but at this point, only returns every two years. There’s also the Mayfair Witches, which has run for two seasons with very little buzz, and Talamasca: The Secret Order. I don’t know a single person who has watched Talamasca: The Secret Order, and I am friends with TV critics.

There is also Dark Winds, which is beloved but not highly-rated or, honestly, discussed much.

But, in addition to another installment of The Terror, AMC+ is launching a new series in April that just might convince a few people to subscribe again. The Audacity comes from Jonathan Glatzer, a writer of Succession, Better Call Saul, and Bad Sisters. And it boasts an impressive cast: The underrated Billy Magnussen, Sarah Goldberg from Barry, Rob Corddry from everything, Simon Helberg from The Big Bang Theory, Lucy Punch, Randall Park and … Zach Galifianakis, whose biggest role in the last decade, probably, was playing himself on the most recent season of Only Murders in the Building.

The Audacity is described as a show about a self-appointed “inventor of the future” tech CEO and his self-serving “performance psychologist,” who are engulfed in a scandal sparked by the exploitation of personal data.

The trailer looks better than the logline.