Six great reads: gravity-defying boobs, an ayahuasca multinational, and Jesse Armstrong on tech bros
Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days
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5 months ago
‘I have a lot of sympathy for Elon Musk’: Succession creator Jesse Armstrong on his tech bros AI satire Mountainhead
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
He is the master of ripped-from-the-headlines drama, a writer who skewers the billionaire class. As Mountainhead takes him into new territory, he talks about his nuanced view of the world’s richest m…
6 months ago
Death is not the end! From the new robot Walt Disney to Mountainhead, movies are fuelled by immortality
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Transhumanism has long propelled films from Metropolis to The Matrix. But Jesse Armstrong’s billionaire satire isn’t sci-fi fantasy. Nor is the ‘robotic Grampa’ Disney’s granddaughter so despises
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Tech-bro satire Mountainhead is an insufferable disappointment
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Jesse Armstrong’s rushed Succession follow-up might be heavy on of-the-moment buzzwords, but it’s too smug to make any real point
Picture this: a group of very rich people gather at an ostentatiously …
Why Succession creator Jesse Armstrong is writing about rich people again
The Succession writer tells the Hay Festival about his fascination with who holds power in society.
Mountainhead review – tech bros face off in Jesse Armstrong’s post-Succession uber-wealth satire
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Weapons-grade zingers come thick and fast in this chamber piece about four plutocrats on a weekend in a lodge that goes awry when the planet descends into chaos
Jesse Armstrong has returned with what …
7 months ago
Mountainhead: first trailer for Jesse Armstrong’s topical Succession follow-up
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Billionaires, played by Steve Carell and Ramy Youssef, meet amid an international crisis in HBO’s of-the-moment satire
A summit of influential male billionaires is underway in the first teaser trailer…
9 months ago
‘We’re clearly heading towards collapse’: why the Murdoch empire is about to go bang
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
An explosive succession trial and an astonishing interview with one of Rupert’s sons have exposed the paranoia and hatred at the heart of global media’s most powerful family. This could get messy…
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10 months ago
Succession creator Jesse Armstrong targets world of high finance in his next project - a film about an international money crisis
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Jesse Armstrong, 53, was reportedly approaching the $1 million per episode level for the final series of Succession, and it is thought his new deal with HBO is even more lucrative.
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