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Is ‘The Studio’ Fun but Shallow? No, Seth Rogen’s Series Is Addictive Because It Gets to the Heart of the New Entertainment Malaise
Is 'The Studio' fun but shallow? No, Seth Rogen's series is addictive because it captures our new showbiz condition
That’s partly because of its in-your-face style, which some find obnoxious (the rushing-camera single takes, the jazzy percussive score that plays under the scenes and helps give them their manic drive). Matt Remick, the anxious, fulminating, eager-beaver Continental Studios head played by Rogen as equal parts dick and dork, has the essential quality you’d expect to see in a person of his position. You could say that about each and every character in “The Studio.” Sal (Ike Barinholtz) the depraved snake of a production VP, Quinn (Chase Sui Wonders) the fake-ingenuous creative executive, Maya (Kathryn Hahn) the marketing guru who’s like a walking id of gonzo publicity malarkey — everything that comes out of their mouths is calculated and political and probably a lie, never more so than when they’re being “sincere.”
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