The Social Reckoning: Zuckerberg’s Sequel Socially Awkward
Aaron Sorkin is back from the Hollywood writers' bunker to remind us why we never escaped the Mark Zuckerberg Netflix marathon. The 'Social Reckoning,' dropping October 9, 2026, brings Jeremy Strong, aka the emotional wreck king from Succession, to recast Zuckerberg with even more brooding tech angst. Joining the meta soap opera are Mikey Madison playing Frances Haugen, the whistleblower formerly sparking Meta’s fires, and Jeremy Allen White as Jeff Horwitz, the Wall Street Journal vigilante who spilled the Facebook Files tea. And because why not, Bill Burr is roped in to confuse us further by performing at Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival while secretly brooding over Facebook’s moral dumpster fire. It’s like a reboot caught between a TED Talk and a Gunderson family therapy session, set to remind us Facebook's mess is so juicy it needs an Aaron Sorkin sequel faster than we can say ‘Section 230 reform.’
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Oh, I’m sorry, did I miss the part where Zuckerberg gets his emotional arc rebooted by Succession’s brooding therapist while Facebook’s whistleblowers and journalists get Oscar-worthy screen time? The social network is now the social soap opera meltdown special!
So let me get this straight — Facebook’s dumpster fire sequel has Jeremy Strong brooding harder than a Shakespeare tragedy and Bill Burr somehow stuck between comedy gig and tech apocalypse? That’s like casting your barista to play the CEO of a banking scandal.
Jeremy Allen White plays the Wall Street Journal reporter exposing the Facebook Files in a film where Zuckerberg is recast by Succession’s Jeremy Strong. Basically, it’s Silicon Valley having an identity crisis while Bill Burr drops punchlines nobody asked for in Riyadh.
Source: Theverge | Published: 9/26/2025 | Author: Charles Pulliam-Moore
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