Apple TV+ has another major hit on its hands with ‘The Studio,’ starring Seth Rogen

“The Studio” premieres on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 on Apple TV+.
Apple TV+ has another major hit on its hands with “The Studio,” in which Seth Rogen stars as Matt Remick, the newly appointed head of embattled Continental Studios. As movies struggle to stay alive and relevant, Matt and his core team of infighting executives battle their insecurities as they wrangle narcissistic artists and craven corporate overlords in the ever-elusive pursuit of making great films. With their power suits masking their never-ending sense of panic, every party, set visit, casting decision, marketing meeting and award show presents them with an opportunity for glittering success or career-ending catastrophe. As someone who eats, sleeps and breathes movies, it’s the job Matt’s been pursuing his whole life, and it may very well destroy him.

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Would you be surprised to hear that the very good and very funny Seth Rogen-led film-industry satire The Studio has a lot in common with The Wire?
We’ll come back to that…
A 10-episode series for Apple TV+, The Studio stars Rogen as Matt Remick, the new head of Continental Studios. He got the job when his unhinged upper-level boss (an impeccably cast Bryan Cranston) fired his mentor, Patty (an impeccably cast Catherine O’Hara) and promoted Matt. Now, it’s Matt’s moment, and he’s terrified…
It’s the darndest thing: This is one of the most brutally skewering comedies about Hollywood that Hollywood itself has produced, and also one of the most sympathetic to industry people…
Someone with some industry experience once told me that when they were younger, they’d wondered how big movies with enormous resources can be so bad. Now, they said, having seen things more up-close, they’re surprised that any of them are ever any good. That, really, is what The Studio is about. With the system the way it is, it is actually an uphill battle for anything to be good, and Matt is fighting that uphill battle even though he’s theoretically the boss. That’s in part because you can go as high up as Matt, the studio head, and still be in the world of people who love movies as art. But Matt has a boss, too, and when you get up to that boss, the corporate boss, the one played by Cranston? That’s another story. (Is it ever.)
And that’s why there are echoes of The Wire, perhaps the best show we’ve ever had about how broken systems (economic sectors, government, schools, police) overwhelm people who are flawed but not wicked. Systems become far more malevolent and destructive than any one well-meaning person inside them can easily fix, and unless you change the whole thing, you will continue to get corruption…

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MacDailyNews Note: The new, very well-reviewed comedy series has now premiered globally on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 with the first two episodes, to be followed by one episode every Wednesday through May 21, 2025 only on Apple TV+.
Apple TV+ is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, Mac, popular smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO, TCL and others, Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles, and at tv.apple.com, for $9.99 per month with a seven-day free trial for new subscribers. For a limited time, customers who purchase and activate a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod touch can enjoy three months of Apple TV+ for free.

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