The cast of The Studio. Credit: Shutterstock Featureflash Photo Agency.
This week’s top TV shows:
The Studio, Season One – Apple TV+
Seth Rogen brings The Studio The film is a wild look behind Hollywood’s velvet-curtain. Rogen plays Matt Remick – a cinema enthusiast who is forced to manage a crumbling studio. The cast includes Bryan Cranston.Breaking BadKathryn HahnBad Moms). There’s plenty of satire and some surprising cameos – look out for a sobbing Scorsese. Each episode exposes a new sham and exposes the sobering reality of Hollywood today: Art is being replaced with algorithms.
MobLand. Season One (Paramount+).
MobLand opens with a slightly underwhelming simmer but slowly builds – if you have the patience. Tom Hardy plays Harry Da Souza. He is the glue that holds two mob families together as they teeter on the brink of war. Guy Ritchie directed some early episodes, which you will recognize for his snappy supervision and lavish settings. Helen Mirren dominates as the ruthless matriarch, and Pierce Brosnan plays her husband with a slightly forced Irish accent – despite his real-life Kerry roots. This is a slow-burning hybrid of an East End East End soap opera and a Shakespearean style play. Great cast but something is missing…
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