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Decoding TV

Ep. 70 - 'Mountainhead' Tries to Skewer Billionaire Tech Bros. Does It Succeed? (Plus: 'Rehearsal' and 'Last of Us' Follow-Ups)

Decoding TV

David Chen

Tv & Film, Netflix, Tv, Television, Streaming, Recap, Hulu, Fx, Hbo, Max

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Decoding TV podcast, David and Patrick discuss Succession creator Jesse Armstrong’s latest HBO original, Mountainhead. Does it do a good job of satirizing the billionaire tech class? Will Nic Pizzolatto ever write a True Detective episode again? And why do we feel sympathy for the new kids cast as the main Harry Potter characters? Listen to us discuss all these questions and more!

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  • Predator: Killer of Killers (Hulu)

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0:00.0

How did the dog sneak out?

0:02.1

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0:04.4

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0:06.9

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0:23.3

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0:28.9

Conditions apply.

0:32.2

Hello everyone and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television.

0:37.1

I am David Chan. Joining me as usual is Patrick

0:39.5

Klepick. Patrick, how is the summer treating you so far? You know, the pool is three-fourths up.

0:47.6

Wow. That's, you know, about all. Dangerous. Well, it's, I mean, it's up. The pool is filled three-fourths

0:53.6

because by the time it was filled three-fourths,

0:55.6

I should mess with the pump to make sure that's all working.

0:59.3

But then people showed up to excavate three dead trees from my backyard.

1:03.6

So pool paused, trees coming out.

1:06.6

But it's weird, like the weather, like it's 87 degrees right now.

1:10.2

And then in two days, it's going to be back down to 67.

1:12.5

So it's a summer flirtation here in the Midwest.

1:16.4

I was just at Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker, played in a few tournaments there.

1:21.5

And, dude, it was oppressively, 100 degrees when I was oppressively hot.

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