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Manage Your Expecations for ‘Mountainhead’ as a Follow-Up to ‘Succession’: TV Review
Jesse Armstrong's HBO film 'Mountainhead' is a modest follow-up to 'Succession.'
On the eve of this bro hang, Venis (Cory Michael Smith, of “Saturday Night” and “May December”), the Zuckerberg-like CEO of social media company Traam, has launched a new, deepfake-enabling feature that’s lit a global bonfire of misinformation. Rounding out the foursome are financier Randall (Steve Carell), who’s in denial about his terminal cancer prognosis, and host Hugo (Jason Schwartzman), who’s derisively known as Souper, as in soup kitchen — because his relatively paltry nine-figure fortune makes him “the poorest billionaire in the game.” Souper’s self-pity mimics Tom Wambsgans’ assessment of a $5 million fortune as “the poorest rich person in America” and “the world’s tallest dwarf”; Jeff’s jealousy of Hester recalls Connor Roy’s (successful) attempts to buy the loyalty of his paid-escort-turned-wife Willa.
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