Ernie makes a plan to save the picture. With social tensions rising in Hollywood following Meg's announcement, Archie and Avis remain vigilant. Jack and Archie give Ernie the opportunity of a ...
Avis contemplates the possibility of making history. Meg finds its cast. With pre-production underway, Dick has notes for Raymond and Archie. Ellen decides to follow her heart as Jack's past comes ...
Dick and Ellen pitch Ace their slate. Raymond and Camille urge Archie to make a bold script change. Avis is presented with an unexpected opportunity while Jack and Rock prepare for their screen tests.
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Title: Hollywood (2020)
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A group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood try to make it big - no matter the cost.
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This series starts off by selling us the idea that we are going to follow the Story of Jack Castello as he makes his rise to stardom in Dreamland. Then we are introduced throughout the series to a wide variety of characters. Hollywood tries to accomplish telling everyone's story because part of its own story is that everone story matters and is worth telling (they are to some degree). However this proves to be messy.
By the fifth episode, the story of Hollywood has switched through so many narratives that when we jump back to a story we previously saw, we don't care what we are seeing. Dick Samuels andMrs. Kinkaid, Jack and Claire; two relationships that sought exploration yet were over in the matter of a few scenes. They claimed to have chemistry when we saw none.
The film has some anti-white undertones (understandable hatred against those in power at the time) and it seems that guilt takes over all the white characters as they realize their dreams arn't as important next to their PoC counterparts. They become the focus of the series as it paints a picture of what Hollywood could be like if they just spoke up more. Then, as soon as they are successful they are quickly forgotten about as the story quickly and abruptly transitions to being loud and proud for the gay community. Then the show is over?
I like the story of Camille Washington but as soon as her moment in the spotlight is over we don't see from her at all. Wasn't the majority of the show about her struggle? Yet instead we focus on relationships between many characters and her struggle is minimized by the shortness of it all on screen? To be honest the treatment of Women in this film is odd. Avis is seen as this powerful yet helpless woman, one that is given a taste of power and has a lot to struggle with being the head of a studio (as a female.) Yet we are made not to feel sorry for her because she is a white female and her climb means nothing compared to the other stories?
Overall the show seeks to paint an alternate version of Hollywood, one that showcases the cost of making it in dreamland, celebrates PoC, yet gets convoluted in too many different stories. The acting is good, the authenticity of the 40s is nostalgic. The series is mediocre at best.