Succession creator Jesse Armstrong has by no means been refined along with his commentary on the wealthy and highly effective, however the brand new trailer for his HBO function Mountainhead spells out precisely what makes its central characters folks you shouldn’t be rooting for.
Set in a distant cabin on the high of a mountain, Mountainhead revolves round a quartet of tech bros whose firms have turned them into obscenely rich folks. Although Randall (Steve Carell), Hugo Van Yalk (Jason Schwartzman), Venis (Cory Michael Smith), and Jeff (Ramy Youssef) all have completely different internet worths, they share the identical sort of worldview that comes with having billions of {dollars} to your title. The boys see their riches as an indication that they deserve some down time stress-free within the snow whereas their staff preserve issues operating at house.
However the CEOs are given pause when Traam — Venus’ generative AI-filled social media platform — is pointed to as a catalyst for an uptick in violence. And whereas the lads are fast to guarantee each other that none of their creations may be blamed for making the world a extra horrible place, it isn’t lengthy earlier than the buddies begin stating the multitude of how by which that’s completely not true.
Particularly coming proper after X’s current points with Grok speaking nonstop about “white genocide” in South Africa, Mountainhead’s trailer makes the film really feel unsettlingly tapped into the information cycle. Although the film is meant to be humorous, the way in which its characters “joke” about with the ability to take over the world isn’t all that amusing contemplating the way in which precise tech CEOs speak about folks. Which may make Mountainhead really feel extra like a dramatic documentary when it makes its HBO debut on Might thirty first.
