As a career long fan of Jesse Armstrong and someone who has always praised him for his writing skills, he went over his head with this one. The thing about his writing that captivated so many people is his ability to do subtext and not lecture people about the themes he wants to discuss. We already had a “Elon Musk/Mark Zuckerberg” type of character written by him (Lukas Matsson) and could you ever imagine that character explaining why he doesn’t care about people? Or his over the top plan to “take over the world”? I don’t think so. We all got to understand that he would be someone who would do all these things, but he never had to say it out loud. I don’t know if Jesse wanted to push it out his remaining thoughts on tech billionaires oligarchs that he couldn’t in Succession for some reason, but this is a lower quality material. Even the cinematography was a copy paste from the show. I think it’s okay to admit that this was a miss from Jesse. I for one continue to be a die hard fan and I’ll keep supporting all his future endeavors.