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narrative decisions that already introspection, which makes this with a remarkable balance be-
divided audiences in the game, season less cohesive than the tween acidity and subtlety. Ins-
and this is both its greatest asset first. Still, it remains one of the tead of resorting to exaggeration
and its greatest risk. By taking few big-budget series that dares or caricature, it relies on finely
on the emotional and structural to be unpopular in the name of tuned writing, full of dry irony
weights of the source material staying true to its vision. and small absurdities that reso-
head-on, the series abandons any nate because they seem too true.
pretence of comfort and opts for The direction is elegant, almost
a harder, more fragmented, and the Studio discreet, which only reinforces
even more emotionally unstable Apple TV+ the contrast with the vanity and
path. The direction maintains emptiness it exposes. “The Stu-
the expected cinematic quality, «The Studio» is a comedy that dio” laughs at the entertainment
and the performances are con- doesn't need to be loud to be bi- machine while dismantling it
sistent and moving. However, ting. Created by and starring from the inside, in an exercise of
there is a fluctuation in the pace Seth Rogen, the series satirises complicit irony without condes-
and balance between action and the contemporary film industry cension.

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