Usually, I'm miles behind with my actual TV watching, particularly on Apple TV but "The Studio" happened to drop at the perfect time for me, with a gap in my weekly schedule and I ended up keeping up to date with it's whole run. I can see some limitations, but generally I really enjoyed it.
Matt Remick (Seth Rogan) is handed control of Continental Studios when his mentor, Patty Leigh (Catherine O'Hara) is dismissed. Matt has plans to use the studio to produce prestige pieces but the owner, Griffin Mill (Bryan Cranston) gives him a clear instruction - to produce commercial successful movies, and to that end, he's handed the rights to the Kool-Aid Man and told to turn the logo into a feature. Matt soon learns that compromises need to be made, to try and keep as many people happy as he can.
I'd say that one of the reasons that I'm so positive about the show was that I watched just one episode per week, rather than binging it. This is because the episodes usually take either the form of a full farce, or at the very least a comedy of manners when Matt just has to not say the thing that he's repeatedly advised not to say, but can't let it go. Watching them all in one go might make that structure a little more wearing than it felt to me, with time between the episodes.
The performances from the main cast are excellent, as you'd expect from the sort of comedy talent on display. I didn't mention Kathryn Hahn in the above blurb, nor Ike Barinholtz. There are a number of actors who appear as themselves across the run, but Zoe Kravitz is probably the pick of those, more than a cameo, she appears in several episodes finishing off one with with Continental and trying to get another greenlit.
It really helps that shows about the workings of the film industry is a genre that I really love, but I thought it's was genuinely good and I'm looking forward to season two.
