- Network: HBO Max
- Series Premiere Date: Jul 13, 2023
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Project Greenlight’s newfound insistence that this be a supportive, nontoxic workplace means that all tensions and frustrations are buried six feet deep, and the season vibrates with the repressed energy of a hundred people trying to conceal their emotions. ... There’s the unmistakable sensation of a balloon deflating by the end of the season, created by an underwhelming movie and a young director who’s meant to be heroic but instead comes off as checked out and uninsightful. This too is compelling.
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The more benign parts of the process—casting, location scouting—are as interesting as ever. But they are eventually swallowed up by the higher drama, by Project Greenlight’s chilling documentation of a good enough idea gone bad.
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If you have the patience for a lower-key chronicle of the gestation of a film and the education of a filmmaker in the age of straight-to-streaming genre fare, the rebooted Project Greenlight: A New Generation makes for a fascinating watch on its own merits.
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Rae and her team are optimistic that they can improve upon past incarnations of the show, and yet it remains the same as it ever was, for good or for ill.
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It looks like PG:ANG will start lukewarm and only get hotter as things progress.
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Unlike previous seasons, this Project Greenlight hits its stride as Gray Matter hits production, specifically with the butting of heads between the Project Greenlight and Gray Matter crews. .... It’s incredibly illuminating and completely entertaining in ways that the first half of the season fails to be.
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Say this for the documentary aspect of “Project Greenlight”: It gets Hollywood’s tendency to pass the buck precisely right. Through it all, “Project Greenlight” remains somewhat toxically watchable.
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Jul 18, 2023It makes for an irritating watch, bogged down by heavy-handed and repetitive edits that frame the most receptive (and least seasoned) filmmaker as the fall woman for Hollywood’s habitual inability to mentor, communicate, or properly place blame.
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What’s that Paul McCartney quote, “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarians”? Yeah, Project Greenlight: A New Generation feels like that.