In "Mountainhead," on Max, Jesse Armstrong films four "tech bros" dancing on the edge of the abyss.

If we think of the Succession series as a recital given by its creator, Jesse Armstrong , we see Mountainhead as an encore. A piece in the key of the main work, captivating enough that we don't leave before the end, light enough that we don't regret that it ended so quickly.

The quartet tasked with executing Mountainhead is made up of tech magnates, gathered for a weekend in a building disguised as a cabin, somewhere in the peaks of Utah, USA. The clash between old forms of capitalism and the multinationals born of the digital revolution formed one of the themes of Succession. Jesse Armstrong this time chooses to arrive after the battle, after the triumph of the princes of Silicon Valley.

At the invitation of the most mediocre of the four, Hugo Van Yalk (Jason Schwartzman), creator of applications aimed at user well-being, and the only one of the group whose assets have not passed the billion dollar mark – his “friends” call him Souper, a nickname that refers to the soup kitchen – Venis (Cory Michael Smith), Randall (Steve Carell) and Jeff (Ramy Youssef) release a few tons of CO₂ into the atmosphere (private jets, procession of vans with tinted windows) to reach the top of the mountain and play poker.

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