The Jaw-Dropper
Steve Carell just traded The Office for a “ugly deathtrap house” that might be humanity’s last hope—and HBO’s Mountainhead trailer is exactly the unhinged rich-people satire we need right now. Imagine Succession’s Logan Roy hosting a doomsday retreat with Elon Musk’s ego, and you’re halfway there.
Why This Changes Everything (Or Nothing)
The trailer opens with a chef’s kiss of irony: four billionaire tech CEOs (Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef) fleeing to a Park City mega-condo as the global economy implodes. Their net worth? $371 billion. Their empathy? Zero. The vibe? The Big Short meets The Menu—if the meal was capitalism’s collapse, and the chefs were too high on venture capital to care.
One insane detail? The line: “This ugly deathtrap house might’ve just become humanity’s global HQ.” It’s Armageddon rewritten by a Goldman Sachs intern—and we’re obsessed.
The Hidden Story
This isn’t Hollywood’s first rodeo with rich idiots in crisis (The White Lotus, Triangle of Sadness), but Mountainhead flips the script: What if the 1% won the apocalypse? Creator Jesse Armstrong (Succession) knows his way around a morally bankrupt oligarch, but here, the satire is less subtle—more “let them eat crypto.”
Anonymous crew rumor (probably fake, but delicious): “Carell improvised half his lines while watching CNBC melt down.”
If Succession was a tragedy, Mountainhead is its farcical cousin—a riot of privilege, panic, and Park City views. Streaming May 31. Bring popcorn (and a pitchfork).
