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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

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…

Money problems: have we had enough of TV shows about rich people?

Shows such as Sirens, The Better Sister, And Just Like That and Your Friends and Neighbours have found little to say about the uber-wealthy

As fun as it was, Mountainhead seems to have broken somethin…

Middle-aged women are having a moment – and my new favourite TV series shows why | Emma Brockes

I’m fed up of watching endless dramas about tech bros. Give me a perimenopausal Norwegian woman any day

The current TV landscape leans heavily towards shows that skewer the rich from the point of view…

6 months ago

Death is not the end! From the new robot Walt Disney to Mountainhead, movies are fuelled by immortality

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

For …

Mountainhead to See How They Run: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Jesse Armstrong’s hilariously awkward tech bro satire sees Steve Carell and Jason Schwartzman plot world domination, while a starry, Agatha Christie-inspired whodunnit is tons of fun

In Jesse Armstron…

Mountainhead review – tech bros face off in Jesse Armstrong’s post-Succession uber-wealth satire

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

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…

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