Jesse Armstrong talks about the pressure of following the success of "Succession" with his new movie "Mountainhead."

Armstrong is still fascinated by the egotistical rich kids who hold our fates in their hands, but his latest project lacks the lightning-in-a-bottle chemistry that made "Succession" such a triumph.

This review does contain details of HBO/Max’s May 31 debuting Mountainhead movie – but not the ones they asked us not to reveal. If you are still mourning Jesse Armstrong’s now departed Succession, then the Emmy winning writer’s HBO movie Mountainhead will provide the satirical methadone and “grin f*cking” you’ve been craving.