Tech Moguls Gone Wild: "Mountainhead" & More on TV This Week

June's TV highlights include tech mogul satire Mountainhead, comic whodunnit See How They Run, animated Inside Out, Western The Three Burials, Edna O’Brien Story, In the Loop comedy, and queer drama National Anthem.

Mountainhead (Sky Atlantic, Sunday 1 June, 9pm)

• Jesse Armstrong's satire about tech moguls at a retreat called Mountainhead.
• Starring Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef, and Cory Michael Smith.
• A deep-fake tool launch causes financial and social meltdown.
• The moguls ponder exploiting the chaos for world domination.
• Similar to Succession, focusing on the super-rich and their expendable view of people.

See How They Run (Channel 4, Saturday 31 May, 9.20pm)

• A comic whodunnit set after the 100th West End performance of The Mousetrap in 1953.
• An American director is murdered.
• Starring Sam Rockwell as a sozzled Insp Stoppard and Saoirse Ronan as an eager PC Stalker.
• Features a star-studded cast including Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, Reece Shearsmith, and Harris Dickinson.

Inside Out (BBC One, Sunday 1 June, 3.30pm)

• Inventive animation about the emotions inside a child's brain.
• Joy (Amy Poehler) controls 11-year-old Riley's mind.
• Moving to San Francisco brings Anger, Fear, Disgust, and Sadness (Phyllis Smith) into play.
• Joy and Sadness go on a quest into Riley's mind to save her.

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Great! Action, Sunday 1 June, 9pm)

• Directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones.
• Jones plays a Texas ranch foreman who seeks to honor his friend, an illegal immigrant.
• The immigrant was shot by a border patrolman (Barry Pepper).
• A modern Western with themes of friendship and loyalty.

Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story (Great! Action, Sunday 1 June, 9pm)

• Documentary about Irish author Edna O’Brien.
• Features O’Brien discussing her life and experiences at age 93.
• Covers her traumatic childhood, oppressive marriage, and the misogyny she faced.

In the Loop (BBC Two, Tuesday 3 June, 11.45pm)

• Armando Iannucci's comedy about governmental fools from the UK and US.
• The bungling of apparatchiks leads to a potential war.
• Peter Capaldi returns as Malcolm Tucker, bullying a minister (Tom Hollander).

National Anthem (Film4, Wednesday 4 June, 11.20pm)

• A queer coming-of-age drama set in New Mexico.
• Dylan, a laborer, finds a community of LGBTQ+ folk at the House of Splendor ranch.
• He develops an attraction to rodeo rider Sky (Eve Lindley)