The next target for the creator of ‘Succession'? Tech bros, obvs.
What do you do after 'Succession'? Whom do you skewer once you've impaled the world's media titans and their deeply dysfunctional families on their own hubris over the course of four seasons?
That's easy. You go after the tech bros.
'Mountainhead' is the latest from 'Succession' writer-director Jesse Armstrong — no surprise, it's available on HBO's streaming service, Max — and it's something more and rather less: a feature-length film that places four obscenely rich Silicon Valley overlords in a snowbound mansion as the world burns down around them and they plot to leverage the situation to their profits and power. It's a comedy, and a brutally dark one, that draws blood and appalled laughter for two-thirds of its running time before jumping the shark in the final stretch. Once again, a brilliant TV writer finds the compact format of a two-hour movie more challenging than expected.
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