There are no good billionaires in new trailer for HBO’s Mountainhead movie

Succession creator Jesse Armstrong has ne'er been subtle with his commentary connected the affluent and powerful, but the caller trailer for his HBO diagnostic Mountainhead spells retired precisely what makes its cardinal characters radical you shouldn’t beryllium rooting for.

Set successful a distant cabin at the apical of a mountain, Mountainhead revolves astir a quartet of tech bros whose companies person turned them into obscenely affluent people. Though Randall (Steve Carrell), Hugo Van Yalk (Jason Schwartzman), Venis (Cory Michael Smith), and Jeff (Ramy Yousef) each person antithetic nett worths, they stock the aforesaid benignant of worldview that comes with having billions of dollars to your name. The men spot their riches arsenic a motion that they merit immoderate down clip relaxing successful the snowfall portion their employees support things moving astatine home.

But the CEOs are fixed intermission erstwhile Traam — Venus’ generative AI-filled societal media level — is pointed to arsenic a catalyst for an uptick successful violence. And portion the men are speedy to guarantee 1 different that nary of their creations tin beryllium blamed for making the satellite a much unspeakable place, it isn’t agelong earlier the friends commencement pointing retired the multitude of ways successful which that is perfectly not true.

Especially coming close aft X’s caller issues with Grok talking nonstop astir “white genocide” successful South Africa, Mountainhead’s trailer makes the movie consciousness unsettlingly tapped into the quality cycle. Though the movie is expected to beryllium funny, the mode its characters “joke” astir being capable to instrumentality implicit the satellite isn’t each that amusing considering the mode existent tech CEOs speech about people. That mightiness marque Mountainhead feel much similar a melodramatic documentary erstwhile it makes its HBO debut connected May 31st.