There’s an immediacy to Armstrong’s satire that’s almost impulsive. But the anger that spurred Mountainhead’s creation is also its best quality. Armstrong is pissed off and has decided to channel that into brutal jokes.

Mountainhead is a caustic, defiant and righteously furious diatribe against the maniacal egos of those with all of the money and all of the power, but no vanishingly little moral fibre – and all wrapped up by the best jokes in the business.

Mountainhead, like its quartet of central characters, is extremely unpredictable and very, very rich.

Obviously, the lead characters' loathsomeness is the point; I just didn’t find it to be such a compelling or interesting point that it needed to be made and re-made for nearly two hours.