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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Watch This: Mountainhead

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Succession creator Jesse Armstrong is back with Mountainhead, a new movie with characters who are just as wealthy, powerful, and insecure as the Roy family. Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef and Cory Michael Smith star as four tech moguls gathering for a low-key guys' weekend of poker. But business and unchecked, overinflated egos quickly lead them all down a very dark path.

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Music anything like it. El Niño is available wherever books are sold. Perhaps you're still going through succession withdrawal two years after that hit HBO show

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concluded. You're in luck because creator Jesse Armstrong is back with Mountainhead, a new movie

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with new characters who are just as insanely wealthy, insanely powerful, and deeply insecure as the Roy family was.

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Four tech moguls gather for what's supposed to be a low-key guy's weekend of poker, and among them are Steve Correll and Jason Schwartzman.

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But business and unchecked overinflated egos quickly lead them

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all down a very dark path. I'm Linda Holmes. And I'm Aisha Harris, and today we're talking about

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