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How is everyone liking “The Studio” ?
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I’m loving it, honestly. Even the long continuous take format, which I was very skeptical, works here giving it a manic energy.
Top Comment: ”You know A24, Past Lives, like no money!” First episode is excellent but the second might be my favorite tv episode of the year so far. Loved to see Sarah Polley and Marty is fantastic in his small part. Catherine O’Hara also excellent basically playing a disgruntled Amy Pascal. This and The Pitt are single-handedly making me excited for television again.
The Studio - Series Premiere Discussion
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The Studio
Premise: Matt Remick (Seth Rogen), the new head of the struggling Continental Studios, deals with internal conflicts, demanding artists, and corporate demands in the comedy series co-written by Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, Evan Goldberg, and Rogen.
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Top Comment: Bryan cranston is just really great here Especially when he reacts to that Kool aid trailer Every time he does a comedic performance, I see a little of Hal from Malcolm
Anyone else have a hard time watching The Studio?
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Sorry if this has been posted before, but - given everything going on in the Biz the last 5 years, I had a hard time watching the The Studio. I get it's absurdist, but even studio people acknowledged it's grounded in some truth. Just the idea that the people who hold our collective fate in their hands are so....
you know. I kept thinking "we are so fucked".
Anyone else?
Top Comment: My friends at various LA studios all say the most unbelievable aspect of the show is that the characters have empathy.
The guys are right about The Studio. I was excited to watch it and despite there hate I tried it tonight…
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It’s honestly worse than their assessment.
it’s way too in your face and feels like a crutch after a while. Also the satire is too on the nose. The show feels like it wants to be Hail Ceaser in modern day without the Coens writing mixed with entourage, I just hated everyone so much, I had no one to root for, satire doesn’t mean just magnifying everyone’s flaws x100.
This is a perfect example of just because it might be true doesn’t mean it’s something anyone wants to watch.
I’m honestly shocked, I love movies about the dark side of Hollywood, I loved Babylon when everyone hated it, loved episodes, loved the player, the artist. There’s so many examples of this working.
And this just doesn’t. It feels like everyone involved is lost up their own ass. I don’t have a hard time believing all these people exist in Hollywood, I do have a hard time believing they exist to this degree and all in the same sphere. They threw out all balance and nuance.
I hate hate hate this.
Top Comment: I think its a pretty good show. Don’t get the hate at all.
The Studio | Season 1 - Episode 6 | Discussion Thread
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Top Comment: Matt had an extremely valid crash out. They were assholes.
The Studio | Season 1 - Episode 1 | Discussion Thread
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Top Comment: I regret any and all reservations I had about this show from the time it was announced and so forth. This is fantastic. The episode title sequence is A+. The camera movements are flawless which are amplified by the percussion adding depth and intensity. Hats off to you Mr. Rogan. I think The Bear has some serious competition when the stars align if future seasons line up. But for the 2025 award season it’s going to be tough pitting The Studio and Shrinking S2 against each other. Marty was great. I loved that they ended on Goodfellas. To quote Mr. Martin Scorsese “Just give me back my movie and let me go sell it to fucking Apple the way I should’ve done it in the first place”. Sir, please do this for all your upcoming movies.
The Studio - 1x10 - “The Presentation” - Episode Discussion
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The Studio
Season 1 Episode 10: The Presentation
Directed by: Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg
Written by: Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg & Peter Huyck & Alex Gregory & Frida Perez
Top Comment: "So all of Continental will become a branch of a tech company?!?" - Patty, The Studio, on Apple TV+, watched on my MacBook. Love the meta backhand.
What do you think about Seth Rogen's The Studio?
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Ever wondered about the business of making movies? Along with the director and his team, there’s the whole engine of the production house that participates in the creation of what lands in the movie theatres for our pleasure. If you are in the corporate world, think of it as a project with a tight deadline and a large team split into departments with specific responsibilities. Seth Rogen’s The Studio gives us a peek behind the curtain at the joy and agony of making movies with a high and potent dose of humour.
Rogen plays Matt Remick, the new head of one such production house called Continental Studios in The Studio. Matt worked as a studio executive for years; a position that falls lowest on the list of people with creative clout. He’s less a name and more a cheap suit who has no business being on a film set, at least from the artists’ perspectives, as is vividly illustrated in the first scene.
Immediately after being promoted, he drowns in the immense responsibility of making decisions to balance his personal agenda with the company’s financial goals, represented by the CEO of the parent company, played by Bryan Cranston (menacing yet funny). Matt says he wants to make prestige films like Robert Evans (he made Rosemary’s Baby, Love Story and The Godfather as a studio head) did. But his wardrobe and cars, which get progressively more expensive, show that he spends more time looking as cool and stylish as Robert Evans than on the job.
The first episode succeeds in exemplifying Matt’s conundrum as his boss gives him his first task, to make a movie on the Kool-Aid man, and make millions for the studio in the process. The memorandum is clear– to make a Super Mario Bros.-type movie. But Matt wants to make something like an auteur-driven Barbie. He charts a shortsighted course to get Martin Scorcese to direct his Kool-Aid movie. Working with some of the greatest actors of all time, Martin Scorsese has learned a thing or two about acting and is fantastic playing a version of himself.
The former studio head, Patty Leigh (a sharp and hilarious Catherine O’Hara) is his mentor and teacher but she too is busy hustling and kissing up to the creatives like every producer in town. Matt’s closest friend, Sal (Ike Barinholtz), now hates him as he has to report to Matt, representing the side of high-paid executives around the world that’s battling alcohol or cocaine or some kind of addiction.
It only makes sense that a show about movies looks cinematic and in that regard, The Studio is exceptional. Being in the business for 25 years, Rogen and his partner Evan Goldberg have learned the skill of expressing art through the camera because the artistry at display can compete with the best shows on TV. Shows like The Larry Sanders Show or Curb Your Enthusiasm never had such lofty ambitions of elevating comedy whilst also looking drop-dead gorgeous. We get long, complex takes, sometimes lasting an entire episode, with structure as intricate as a Jacques Tati or a Buster Keaton film, underscoring the chaos that is Matt’s career.
Musically, the show has the mood of the Golden Age of Hollywood, like the episode called ‘The Missing Reel’ which is a combination of parody and pastiche of noir movies. Each episode is loaded with ironic twists and incredible laugh-out-loud moments, with a star-studded list of cameos.
At the centre of it all though, is Matt, who despite his best intentions, isn’t equipped to deal with his high-pressure job. Some could say, including his team, that he is too soft to be the head of a studio. Despite being the ‘money guy’, he acts like a school kid who is fighting for a seat at the cool table at the canteen with the rich and beautiful. Rogen has given himself an acting challenge here, which undoubtedly, once and for all, establishes him as a comic actor with range.
The brand of comedy that Seth Rogen and his partner Evan Goldberg have produced, created a character that represented men of a generation. That character is a full-grown man now, with a real job, but is just as unprepared as he was in his youth. The Studio is adorable, witty and made by people who love movies for people who love them.
Top Comment: In The Oner, I got to the part where they mention what a oner is and realized that was what they were doing, so I had to restart it.
‘The Studio’ Is a Hilarious Love-Hate Letter to Hollywood
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Top Comment: isn't everything nowadays