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Critic Reviews
TV Guide MagazineApr 28, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The best new comedy of 2025. [14 Apr - 4 May 2025, p.4]
Mar 26, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It’s a show that, at its core, understands Hollywood’s inner workings better than almost every other project made about Hollywood — because it understands the immortality made possible by big screen success, and more importantly, the minor miracles required to ever make anything good.
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The TimesMar 26, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Laced with references to the silver screen at every turn and shot in such a way as to remind you of a golden age of cinema, the show walks a careful tightrope between silliness, satire and sentimentality with quite exceptional results. The sun may be setting on the Hollywood of old, but it has just risen on the best new comedy of the year so far.
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The TelegraphMar 26, 2025
The PlaylistMar 10, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The most entertaining and spot-on depiction of Hollywood since Robert Altman’s “The Player.” Granted, that’s high praise, but Rogen and Goldberg, who also direct the 10-episode series, swing for the fences with one home run after another. They are aided by stellar scripts and an ensemble of actors who are having an utter blast.
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Mar 26, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It’s a fantastically written show, the best showcase for Rogen’s underrated writing and acting abilities in years. Some have already called it Entourage for the streaming era, but if it stays as consistent as its first two episodes, it will almost instantly be considered better.
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Mar 26, 2025
Season 1 Review:
What sets The Studio apart from the many other recent sitcoms that attempt to skewer the entertainment industry is not just its attention to craft and its uniformly strong ensemble cast (Rogen in particular, playing against type as a driven C-suite executive worlds removed from his customary laid-back stoner) but its unironic love for the medium of cinema. .... Wickedly funny yet surprisingly sincere show.
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Mar 21, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Seth Rogen hits a career peak in the year’s best new comedy series as a film geek who gets his dream job running a movie studio only to find that success means killing the thing he loves. It’s sharp, insider fun with a great cast of crazies and a human touch that’s instantly relatable.
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Mar 10, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The Studio’s strain of cringe humor won’t be for everyone; even as it mellows in the second half of the season, it remains too intense to wind down with or throw on in the background. But for those willing to get on its frazzled wavelength, this is a strong contender for the best new comedy of 2025.
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Mar 26, 2025
Mar 26, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The formal confidence and comedic virtuosity of the first few episodes are such that merely competent plots, as in “Casting,” the seventh episode this season, feel half-baked by comparison. .... Saddled with the toughest job, Rogen manages to remain sympathetic and relatable.
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The GuardianMar 26, 2025
Season 1 Review:
There are enough insider jokes to keep film nerds and keen observers of the Hollywood ecosystem happy, as wheels within wheels turn, backs are stabbed, favours are secretly traded, positions jockeyed for and bums endlessly licked, and enough good jokes to prevent the rest of us feeling shut out or short-changed.
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Mar 25, 2025
Season 1 Review:
“The Studio” is a lavish spectacle about how lavish spectacles came to be an endangered species. On occasion, this dissonance can be distracting. .... But for the most part, “The Studio” leads by example. It’s the funny, glitzy, audacious output of a distinct creative vision.
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Mar 25, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Irony gives way — partway — to sincerity as Matt will come to understand it’s not all about him and the series goes out on a closing number that will mean something special to those who remember Disney’s Carousel of Progress. We know this is cheesy, but we choose to believe in it, to be moved by it. Which is, after all, just what the movies do.
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Mar 25, 2025
Season 1 Review:
At its best, it is simultaneously vicious and affectionate, showing both a far greater command of its subject than HBO’s limp and superficial Hollywood satire The Franchise and a deeper level of fondness for it. This is a show made by people who clearly love Hollywood, and who as a result understand exactly how to craft jokes about all the ways the town, and its business, are terrible.
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The IndependentMar 24, 2025
Mar 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
There’s a difference between amusing and laugh-out-loud funny. “The Studio” is amusing — some scenes are borderline slapstick — but the satire could be sharper. .... There are moments of casual — and clever — cruelty, just not enough of them. Still, the series is smart, and it’s OK if some of the jokes won’t be understood, or appreciated, by everyone.
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Sep 4, 2025
Season 1 Review:
When “The Studio” is really cooking, as with a detective-film parody that comes early in the season, it’s very good — funny, inventive, affectionate toward the movies while skeptical toward their industry. But in about half the episodes, the spectacle of watching things blow up in Matt’s face during virtuoso oners (including oners used in an episode dedicated to capturing a great oner) becomes a bit like watching a show that keeps staging big climactic shoot-outs over and over.
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Mar 25, 2025
Season 1 Review:
What ensues is mostly just a zany and increasingly tiresome workplace comedy peppered with catchy celebrity cameos. There is impressive craft to the series, whose complicated Curb Your Enthusiasm-esque plot structures are laid out in energetic long takes. Too often, though, that craft is undermined by lazy contrivances, hoary tropes that feel well beneath the high stylistic ambition of the series.
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