If you have never heard of the Apple TV+studio, take this if you have to view it.
Co -created by old partners Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the studio takes you on a tumultuous, hilarious and often urgent drive to the life of Matt Remick (rogen) while tackling his biggest job so far: his promotion to President of Continental Studios.
For Matt it is a dream come true. He has worked on this role all his life. He likes filmHe likes to say. The old -fashioned species, like a real cinephile. And although that is not inherent in a bad vision, especially since it should still have a studio execs, Matt tends to have wrapped the right idea in the wrong performance.
Although he helped to make his name by defending MK Ultra, a super hero franchise, that is not what he wants to keep doing. For Matt there is nothing better than making a real movie, not a movie. The two cannot mutually exclude him as they are for CEO Griffin Mill (Bryan Cranston). But Matt, as timidly as he is ambitious, is too scared to go against the wishes of his superiors.
The studio has the kind of fast amazing momentum that I have expected and loving a production of Goldberg/Rogen. Every episode follows a different problem, and usually it is a problem that Matt comes in. Like many bosses who try too hard, Matt often pushes a bit too far into the “I am just like you!” Persona for the actors or the film crew.
Matt, however, is still charming in a way that can only pull rogen, which is a good thing for his character. If someone else had played him, I don’t know if he would be so sympathetic somewhere. Rogen has this seriousness for him, regardless of what role he plays, and although I noticed more than once that I wanted to shake a feeling in Matt, I also understood him.
With the industry in such a state of Flux at the moment, and with studios that lean more to IP and tent poles instead of author-driven film, the studio comes at a foresight time. It is not difficult to imagine that all the conversations that Matt has with his team (Kathryn Hahn, Chase Sui Wonders, Ike Barinholtz, Dewayne Perkins) that actually takes place in studios in Hollywood while we speak.
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However, you can also feel that this is also a love letter to the industry. It is imperfect, yes, but at the end of the day you still like it, and you want to invest your time in it. The episodes are filled with host stars that play hyper-realized versions of themselves, some you would expect from a rogen/goldberg story and some would not you. It is sometimes a bit on-the-nosis, but that also makes it charming.
It is still too early to see if the studio will be able to address the wider mass (such as severance payment), or whether it will fall into a more niche area, where people are familiar with the conditions and the cameor and the industry and chuckling and chuckling and ‘yes, that is exactly’. Give it now and support the art. The studio is a nice watch and one of the more structured streaming shows that are currently available.
The studio rolls out episodes every Wednesday on Apple TV+. At the moment you can register for only £ 2.99/$ 2.99 per month for the first three months.
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