Succession creator Jesse Armstrong has by no means been delicate 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. Though Randall (Steve Carell), Hugo Van Yalk (Jason Schwartzman), Venis (Cory Michael Smith), and Jeff (Ramy Youssef) all have totally different internet worths, they share the identical kind of worldview that comes with having billions of {dollars} to your identify. The males see their riches as an indication that they deserve some down time enjoyable within the snow whereas their workers hold issues working at house.
But 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 chums begin declaring the multitude of how by which that’s completely not true.
Especially 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. Though the film is meant to be humorous, the way in which its characters “joke” about having the ability to take over the world isn’t all that amusing contemplating the way in which precise tech CEOs discuss folks. That may make Mountainhead really feel extra like a dramatic documentary when it makes its HBO debut on May thirty first.
