The Apple TV+ series “The Studio” is, on several levels, a contradiction in terms. It’s a TV show about the making of movies. It’s an act of self-indulgence that works as a shrewd parody of self-indulgence. Most of all, it’s a lament for a lost era of extravagance, investment and originality — that is itself the product of extravagant investment in an original idea.
This irony is, foremost, a comedic strategy, and a successful one. Matt Remick (Seth Rogen), the newly promoted head of the fictional Continental Studios, may fancy himself the second coming of legendary Paramount chief Robert Evans, but the reality of modern Hollywood delivers one rude
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