Mark Zuckerberg

And as Francis uncovers more, she faces a moral dilemma about her beliefs in the company versus societal responsibilities versus her own career trajectory.

And as this plays out, we intermittently skip forward around a year or so in time to a Mark Zuckerberg prepping for a televised congressional testimony as news of the story that Francis and Jeff have been working on over the last year is about to break.

Okay.

So it skips ahead, skips back-

She's incredible.

Yeah.

Jeremy Strong plays Mark Zuckerberg.

He's a serious talent, of course.

Uh, I just did not like it.

I thought Jeremy Strong wasn't good as Mark Zuckerberg, not good casting, and just too intense and too much like Mark S- uh, Jeremy Strong doing an impression, sorry to say.

Um, Mikey Madison's really good.

She's really good.

And we'll talk about that a little bit more in our second segment when we will be reviewing Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning.

But I, of course, am Mark the Moose Hoss, joined, as always, by my two amazing co-hosts, the illustrious Benny Hamlin and the...

Incredible JT.

Gentlemen, how are you? Did I say gentlemen? Gentlemen, how are you? Gentlemenians? That's where

I didn't know that.

Tell me more.

Mark.

We have a problem.

I won't go with that one.

I was gonna say that Mark Zuckerberg played by Jeremy Strong, his haircut reminds me of Nathan Fillion's Guy Gardner, so it'd be really funny to see, like, a dif- like, like, them against each other in, like, a multiverse.

Uh, I don't know.

It would just be funny.

This movie has-

Mm-hmm

... uh, stars Mikey Madison as Francis Haugen, Jeremy Allen White as Jeff Horwitz, Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Burr, who plays Charlie Garrigan, a former Facebook investor on Zuckerberg's legal counsel, and he's loosely based on Roger, uh, McNamee, Wunmi Mosaku, Billy Magnussen, Betty Gilpin, and several other people who-

Mm-hmm.

I find him a very watchable actor.

But we've also got Jeremy Strong in this, playing Mark Zuckerberg.

And his role or his performance has very much been the thing that's caught the attention of the critics.

This hasn't landed particularly well.

What's the word? On the spectrum.

I don't know if that's a sort of nice way of putting it or not.

But, you know, Mark Zuckerberg, there's something about her in this.

And I can't tell if that's her performance or whether she just was ill-suited to the role.

... at Facebook.

[laughs] And you're like, "I didn't wanna relive any of this." And then you, you butt into, uh, Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg, who we'll definitely talk about.

Um, he is preparing to go in front of Congress and testify, um, in a congressional hearing about just what's going on with Facebook right now.

And a team of people, Bill Burr and a couple of other people who, like, you know from various things-

Uh, [laughs] and I'm gonna go with no, though.

Uh, I think I'd do an okay job.

I'm sure you would do better than Mark Zuckerberg doing nothing.

'Cause the thing about me is I'm not motivated by money, so I could make some different types of decisions.

But other than that, you could watch this on its own.

Well, the synopsis of this thing is following the journalist to whistleblow about Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook and how it's sort of creating the algorithm, right? Yes.

In a very nefarious way.

So pretty much the story with this, it's a whistleblower story where you have Mikey Madison playing real life person Francis Hagen, who was an employee.

Yeah.

So Jeff Horowitz, played by Jeremy Allen White, is the journalist.

She's basically breaking down like what is it that Facebook's doing behind the scenes with Mark, how Mark Zuckerberg is just proclaiming to be such a strong advocate for free speech and all that, which is all fine and dandy.

But OK, what about misinformation, like information that's not true that will cause harm, but yet you're not censoring that.

They're just enjoyable to watch doing anything.

I found Jeremy Strong's Mark Zuckerberg kind of, like, hammy in a great way.

Okay, that's good.

I was like, I'm so glad that guy found another role.

Yeah.

Apparently Darren Sorkin offered Jesse Eisenberg like a lot of money to do it.

And he was like, I'm not going to do it because apparently like enough time has passed from the original social network that people a lot of the time genuinely think he's Mark Zuckerberg when they see him in public and he gets like harassed.

Oh my God.