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Critic Reviews
The TelegraphApr 29, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The show can’t find anything about 1947 it doesn’t shudder at and fix retroactively, fast-tracking these strides for representation that had to wait decades, in reality, to sneak in by the back door. The problem with this woke lens on the era is that it begs applause for itself. ... Still, it's legitimately touching along the way.
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Apr 29, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The early episodes of “Hollywood” are an entertaining mix of earnest inclusiveness and dishy wallow in showbiz lore. But, like those Murphy-produced TV series that went on too long, by the end, “Hollywood” is floating on so many alt-history good vibrations that it becomes less of a celebration, and more of a lecture.
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TV Guide MagazineMay 13, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Too bad the vehicle for their improbable success, based on the story of a woman who jumped off the Hollywood sign to her death, looks like a laughable dud. The grown-ups come off better, even when you know they know they're slumming. [11 - 24 May 2020, p.7]
Apr 30, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It’s this very sincerity, even generosity — its best features, really — that keep the series from being lifelike, and, indeed, can make it seem a little ridiculous. “Hollywood” is determined to deliver good outcomes to its characters; it’s a fixed game, and while it’s easy enough to watch, and to sympathize with its desire to liberate a repressive age, it has little urgency.
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Apr 29, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The show does sometimes achieve the righteous thrills it sets out to provide. But beyond the plot holes and absurd twists and preachy speeches that Murphy fans routinely forgive out of affection for his exuberant, propulsive, pluralistic fictions, it lionizes some questionable figures—like Ernie, who has made his living essentially duping desperate young men into sex work. And it makes enacting large-scale social change look too easy. ... Hollywood’s act of faith feels naive.
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Apr 29, 2020
Season 1 Review:
A consistently handsome, often moving, frequently sanctimonious erasure of the actual slow nature of Tinseltown progress in favor of something that's more a fairy tale than an alt-history. Much more so than Pose, a fundamentally hopeful show set against the unlikely backdrop of the AIDS epidemic, Hollywood too often comes across as simplistic and naive, though if it causes anyone to research the period depicted, there's value in that.
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May 1, 2020
Apr 30, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Even though their characters are poorly written, a few of the performers do manage to help matters with their energy and command. LuPone is never not fun to watch, Joe Mantello is beautifully restrained as a gay producer, and Holland Taylor is moving as a lonely casting director.
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Apr 29, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Some episodes, Hollywood is a sweetly placating Tinseltown fantasy. Others, it’s a grim nightmare about a bitter town and a bitter era. Those two halves never quite fuse together, leaving Hollywood stranded between its poles. It’s intermittently engaging, but often curiously off-putting, an undone dish of conflicting tastes.
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