Steve Carell's tech lord is excited about the atrocities in Mountainhead teaser
Jesse Armstrong's new HBO movie is as timely as ever.
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Jesse Armstrong’s Mountainhead—the Succession creator’s feature-length debut for HBO—was announced before Donald Trump was inaugurated. In typical Armstrong fashion, however, the story could not be more of-the-moment if it tried. The film’s new teaser may as well be a documentary as four fittingly smug “presidents of tech” (“Mount Techmore,” as Jason Schwartzman’s character quips) watch the news in detached bemusement as the world descends into economic instability, panic buying, and violence far below. It may not be escapism, but at least we’ll have some good Armstrong one liners to get us through our own version of that plot.
