Succession creator Jesse Armstrong has by no means been delicate together 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 prime of a mountain, Mountainhead revolves round a quartet of tech bros whose corporations have turned them into obscenely rich folks. Although Randall (Steve Carrell), Hugo Van Yalk (Jason Schwartzman), Venis (Cory Michael Smith), and Jeff (Ramy Yousef) all have completely different web worths, they share the identical kind of worldview that comes with having billions of {dollars} to your title. The lads see their riches as an indication that they deserve some down time stress-free within the snow whereas their staff maintain issues working 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 boys are fast to guarantee each other that none of their creations might be blamed for making the world a extra horrible place, it isn’t lengthy earlier than the buddies begin stating the multitude of the way through which that’s completely not true.
Particularly coming proper after X’s latest 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 best way its characters “joke” about having the ability to take over the world isn’t all that amusing contemplating the best way precise tech CEOs discuss about people. Which may make Mountainhead really feel extra like a dramatic documentary when it makes its HBO debut on Could thirty first.