The Studio

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Season 1
  • Network: Apple TV
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 26, 2025
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 42 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 42
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 42
  3. Negative: 1 out of 42

Critic Reviews

  1. TheWrap
    Reviewed by: Jesse Hassenger
    Sep 4, 2025
    60
    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.
  2. The Observer (UK)
    Reviewed by: Barbara Ellen
    Mar 31, 2025
    60
    The Studio is good fun, but in terms of truly biting satire it needs to be naughtier and sharper.
  3. Arizona Republic
    Reviewed by: Bill Goodykoontz
    Mar 26, 2025
    60
    “The Studio” is a fun show, no doubt. Spot-the-celebrity is always an entertaining game. But it is not the brilliant satire it purports to be, or that I so wanted it to be.
  5. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    Mar 25, 2025
    50
    I should probably admit to watching all 10 episodes fairly enthusiastically, though not without wondering what people thought they were doing. .... There are good ideas, but they manage to cancel themselves out.
  6. Vanity Fair
    Reviewed by: Richard Lawson
    Mar 25, 2025
    40
    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.