The Studio
The Golden Globes
Season 1
Episode 8
Editor’s rating
Photo: Apple TV+
Apart from the return of Kool-Aid: The Movie in the previous episode, this first season of The Studio Has far -Avoided serialized storytelling. Or has it? “The Golden Globes” Often Play Like a Sequel to the Show’s Sixth Episode, “The Pediatric Oncologist,” in That It Continues What Appears to Be the Story of Matt’s Identity Crisis and Mounting Sense of Insignificance. There are still two episodes left in the season, but so far, the series has created a sense that that matt’s tenure, which is filled with misadventures, is going printy well. SURE, he made Martin Scorsese Cry, Ruined Sarah Polley’s Oner, and Will Probably Have to Think Twice About Working With Olivia Wilde Again. But Continental Pictures’ Remick Era, at the Very Least, SEEMS NOT TO BE AN OUTRIGHT DISASTER. And, as “The Golden Globes” OPENS, Matt’s Helped Shepherd at Least One Film of Note Awards Season: The Zoë Kravitz – Directed Open.
So Why does he feel so tiny? There’s Probably a Complex, Big-Picture Answer to This Question that Could Be Teed Out Via Therap, But the Most Immediate Answer is He’s Not Sure Kravitz Thank Him If She Wins. There’s a lot riding on this set for. His mom (Voicmed by Rhea Perlman) Will Be Watching, and She’s Already Disappointed to Learn that Studio Execs can’t be nominated. But matt has promised her that kravitz Will thank Him. And if she doesn’t, his mom will be disappointed. And, to be clear, she’s already Pretty disappointed in her boy who, she reminds Him, has no wife and no Kids. But does thank-you on national television? That Might Make Him Look Like a Success in His Mother’s Eyes.
It Goes Witout Saying, Howver, That Patty Will Be Thaaned if Kravitz Wins. In fact, kravitz can say herk her directly synce she’ll be on the stage with her. “As a Producer,” She Tells Matt, “I Can actually Win. I Can Go Up Onstage, Take Home a Statue, and Become Hollywood Immortal. ” These are the were closed to her as a studio head.
That Clearly Boters Him, but at the least he has a better seat than sal, who fears he’s been placed in the back with the “TV People.” But at the least sal of reunite with Adam Scott, who embrace Him and Fundly Recalls Sleeping on Sal’s Couch we first arrived in Hollywood. This decadees-op favoring will pay off in a Big Way for Sal and Make an already-Humiliating Evening more of a bummer of matt, though of saying.
In the meantime, Matt has other Worldies. Mitch (David Krumholtz), The Agent Whose Many Jokes About Their SHARED JEWISH HERITAGE MAKE SAL UNCOMFORTABLE, WANTS TO KNOW WHY Matt and Continental Haven’t Closed the Deal on Kravitz’s Next Movie, Blackwinga vampire thriller that sounds far removed from the acclaimed Open. (We don’t learn much about that movie, but it is Competing in the Comedy/Musical Category.) Matt Feels Like HIS standing is good Enough. Mitch does not. This Exchange, Too, Will Have Consequences.
The Evening Begins With A Group of Winners Profusely and Witty Thanflix Head Ted Sarandos, which SEEMS to Bode for Matt’s Own Chances of Being Thankled. But the evening has a dinner undercurrent to it. Previously, patty explained to matt that they need to allow influences on the red carpet IF the short-attention-span Generation with what they Connect doesn’t start going, they’re in big trough. RAMY YUSSEF, The Night’s Host, Underscores This with a Joke About How He and Feels face to go to movies or Else “The Whole Thing’s Gonna Fall apart.”
That’s a Big World for Matt in the Long Run, but tonight he sistly worked about Kravitz thanking Him. Talking Privately with Patty (AFTER FIELDING A Call from HIS MOM TELLING HIM TO PASS ON SOME Hairstyle Advice to Jennifer Lawrence), he Expects her to reassure hym that no Big deal kravitz thanks or not. She can’t will this. Getting thananed? “That’s everything. (…) Without a thank-you, you basically do not exist.” SO Matt lays it all out for her: he needs to be thananed. He’s going to Ask Kravitz to Thank Him. This, in Patty’s View, Is “Pathetic.” Matt SEEMS TO ACCEPT THIS JUDGMENT, but he’s not letting go.
Sal’s Having a Bad Night, Too. He’s been seated with “A Bunch of Dutch Incels” Bebind a Horror Series that includes a guy nameed “Joop.” “Howver Bad Your Night’s Going, Mine’s Fucking Worsse,” Sal Reassures Him. That, howver, is about to change. AFTER Anthony Starr and Erin Moaryrty, Stars of The Boys, Announce Scott as a Winner, the flummoxed Star Rattles off a bunch of thanks (including one for sarandos) and then closes with a tearful thanks for sal. SAL PLAS INTO The moment. Yousssef Makes a joke of it. And it seames like saline in the spotlight, thriling as it is, is over. “I feel like I’m on Cocaine,” he tells matt and kravitz. “So i’m going to do a little bit of cocaine and see what happens!”
What Immediately Happens is an AWKWARD BETWEEN BETWEEN MATT AND KRAVITZ ABOUT WHOM SHE’S GOING TO THANK. She modestly responds that she hasn’t given it much thought before patty attempts to defuse the moment by whiskey kravitz off for a selfie with sylvester stallone. Matt Chats with Scott, and it SEEMS LIKE THE EVENTING IS ABOUT TO Press on as it Usamelly DOES UNTIL KUINTA KEEPS The Joke Going by Thanking Sal, Whom She Never Met, in Her Acceptance Speech.
This does not well well with matt, who is feels like he face to be thananed if he didn’t feel that way before. So he seeks out gabby (Lisa Gilroy), Kravitz’s Publicist, who does her best to be diplomatic about matt’s chances thanked before t that kravitz has no plans of thananing hym. Shortly after Jean Smart Keeps the gag going by thanking sal from the stage, matt slips in a desperate attempt to get his name to Kravitz’s Speech.
Not Only is he caught, he’s caught by Kravitz. But instead of shrinking into a tiny ball and rolling away, he tries to explain why it matters to Him he benked. In turn, kravitz drops the false modesty act and reveals how caarebler she choreographed every beat of acceptance speech and that none of those beats includes Him. This Sends Matt Into The Depths of Despair End before He bumps into Mitch, Who Tells Him How Mad Kravitz Is, Adding, “She Will Never Work With Jew Again!” In Response, Matt Caves, Offering Her All the Money She Asced for Make Blackwing at Continental. This solves one crisis, but not the Mounting Crisis (or “Crisis”) of Sal Getting Thaaned from the Stage, with Aaron Sorkin Contribution to the Trend.
THEN, STANDING NEXT TO SARANDOS AT A URIAL, Matt Learns a Secret: Netflix Award Winners are contractually obligated to thank Him. This reassures matt, but only briefly. Continuing, Sarandos Adds, “Otherwise, Why in the World Wold they Possible us? We’re Bean Counters. They’re Artists.” And there is. Matt Thinks of Himself as an artist, not a bean counter. And he cannot think of Himself any Other Way. A thank-you is the smallast positionible affirmation that he’s not fundamentally outgo who is, and he cannot get that. It ‘sone thing for a bunch of doctors to think what he is fundamentally Silly. It ‘another Thing Entirely for Those in His Own industry to see him as anything but the creation force he believes himself to be.
THEN, SOMEHOW, IT GETS WORTS. After Zack Snyder Announces Open As The Winner (AFTER another Sal Joke), Kravitz, Patty, and the Rest of Team Open Take the Stage. Kravitz delivers a lovely (and well-rehearsed) Speech. Patty has to excuse herself to puke after kravitz thanks her. Sal Gets a Shout-Out and THEN, with a lot of Fanfare, she builds up to what SEEMS will be an extramely nice of thanks for matt. And it is! Except the Music Playing Her off the Stage Drowns Out HIS NAME!
AFTERWARD, ALL MATT CAN DO IS CALL HIS MOM AND LISTEN TO HER DISAPPOINTMENT. As Sal and Scott Head off to party with Jimmy kimmel, Mitch and Kravitz let Him know that they’ll Blackwing Together and Kravitz Explains What Happened and Gives Him a Sincere Thanks in Person. It’s a nice moment. Or it would be, if Sarandos’s words weren’t still in Matt’s Head. “At the end of the day,” he tells Kravitz, “You’re the artist and i’m just a bean counter.” She Could Disagree, But She Doesn’t. AFTER TRADING A FEW Words with Patty, Matt Heads Home. Sensing His Mood, Matt’s Limo Driver Asks If His Movie Lost. “No,” Matt Tels Him. “It won.”
• If you’re at all sympathetic to matt – and this series has fesly made it prey to be on his side, what his foies – this is both The Studio‘s saddest episode and its most frustration. Sad Because Matt Gets What He Claims to Want, and What He Probably shouldnt want, when Open wins. It is, by all appeanance, a project with integrity that would not have been made if matt had not personally championed it. But it is not Enough, and nothing will will be unil and personal recognition (and that a “Maybe”. The Question isn’t Whether or Not Matt is an artist. The Question is whereer or not he can live with the being toy he’s an artist, and a great one at that.
• It Feels like we show more about why sylvester stallone has Patty’s horse, Buttercup.
• “I remember when the red carpet for the Golden Globe Actually Stood for Something,” May Be the Episode’s Funniest Line. It Also Feels Like a Litmus Test for How You Look at Matt. Is he sincere? IT KIND OF SOUNDS LIKE HE’S SINCERE.
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