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‘Mountainhead’ TV Review: It’s The End Of The World In Jesse Armstrong’s ‘Succession’ Successor & The Techlords Feel Fine, Sorta
Jesse Armstrong & HBO's Mountainhead has 4 tech billionaires on a weekend retreat while global chaos ensues, what could go wrong? How about everything?
Filmed deftly and swiftly on location just a couple of months ago in the magnificent peaks of Sundance’s soon-to-be former home of Park City, Utah, multi-Emmy winner Armstrong’s directorial debut depicts a weekend poker retreat by a quartet of tech overlords gone very wrong as the world blows up. Still, with award season rewards written all over it, from the note perfect performances by the four leads to the terrible topicality, to the fact that the TV Academy loves their Jesse, the May 31 premiering Mountainhead is a little too ripped from the headlines for its own good. What is there is a saga of content creation tools unveiled in a Beta upgrade.A “F**ck” announced upgrade to the fictional social media platform TRAAM owned by Smith’s unrepentant richest man in the world Venis that unleashes chaos and violent unrest throughout Asia and Central Europe, and beyond.
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