The Studio: An Authentic Look of Hollywood‘s Ego

What happens when Seth Rogen and his creative partner Evan Goldberg sit down to create a show based in Hollywood executives?

The Studio is the new tv series from Apple TV+ that premiered this year with 10 episodes that is basically a satire and often at times the painful truth of a Hollywood executive and anyone who works in the industry. The story follows a messy team trying to get their newest studio off the ground, and at the same time, trying to make a Kool-Aid movie. But, the TV Series offers a good insight on how chaotic is to get a movie greenlight by the studio. How the egos are present between filmmakers, executives and directors.

What really set the tone for me is how realistically captures the real life of this situations. The show not only offers jokes, also offers how the ego is powerful among the directors and how far they are willing to go in order to lie and convince studios to finance their own movies. The dialogue feels real, as someone who works in the industry, this show took his time to have good well research about this topics. Seth Rogen offers an amazing performance as a dumb and sometimes messy Hollywood executive trying to find solutions in the worst way possible.

This is a show made for the people like myself who works in the film industry to feel relatable and offended, and again, that‘s a good thing, because it shows the struggles, the inner confusion and how dumb the executives sometimes are.

The cast is outstanding, the characters feel like a exaggerated version of an executive inside the studio, but in a way, they are represented like this. I loved it every second of this.

If you took close attention, you will notice this aspects from the industry:

• The director who took off 15 years ago and returns to make another movie and now, nobody remembers him
• The intern that only nods and tries to break into the industry by making coffee and doing paperwork
• The CEO who wants to control everything, but he forgets about everything as soon he has another plans in the golf course
• The executives who are gambling in making sequels and remakes, instead of original ideas
• The executive who just started but doesn‘t have a voice or opinion, because he is new

The show was filmed in one take, that often feels like they made clever cuts through the scenes. But the show doesn‘t do this for the laughs, they made it to showcase the real struggles of writing, prep, shoot and edit a movie. The real chaotic steps to do that and how everything can go KABOOM in a matter of seconds.

The Studio offers a clever storytelling, beneath all the jokes and situations and also a side where we have fun cameos of directors and actors playing an absurd version of themselves and it works, and that‘s the beauty of this show. They can add everything they want from film or even controversies and it feels raw and authentic. Seth Rogen finally found his masterpiece and this show is here to stay, because I want to see as many seasons, until there‘s no tomorrow.

The Studio is only avaibable to watch on Apple TV+ with all his 10 episodes already streaming and with the news, they renewed the show for a second season (!!!) and I can‘t wait to see what they come up to for future episodes.