[This story contains spoilers from HBO ‘s movie Mountainhead .]

For much of HBO’s movie Mountainhead , the comedy in writer-director Jesse Armstrong ’s script is particularly dark. Four tech moguls gathered for a bros’ weekend at a Rocky Mountain retreat owned by one of them watch on TV and their phones as the world descends into chaos, thanks in no small part to the social media app one of them controls. As the unrest grows, the four … see it mostly as an opportunity to grab more wealth and power.

Then the elder statesman of the group, venture capitalist Randall ( Steve Carell ), decides that another member of the quartet, Jeff ( Ramy Youssef ), needs to die for not being sufficiently aligned with the group’s principles — i.e., Jeff is a “decelerationist” who doesn’t think

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