Cybersecurity
Review: The Brink, HBO’s New Political Satire
In The Brink, Jack Black tries to make nuclear war funny
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The opening credits of HBO’s The Brink feature a giant Monty Python finger reaching down from the heavens to push a red button that will set off global thermonuclear war. A mad Pakistani general has mounted a coup, seizing control of the country’s arsenal and threatening to, among other things, annihilate Israel.
U.S. political leaders are naturally alarmed—except for the one guy whose job is preventing global disaster. Secretary of State Walter Larson (Tim Robbins, who also produces and directs), whom we first meet naked and tied to a bed, appears to regard the crisis as an intrusion upon a life of Scotch, Cambodian hookers, and auto-asphyxiation.