“The Studio” summary, season 1, episode 9: ‘Cinemacon’

The studio

Cinemacon

Season 1

Episode 9

Evaluation of the editor

4 stars

****

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It turns out The studio Has played a long game when it comes to serialization. Where the episodes from the first half of the relay did not seem to have had much of connective tissue, the return of the Kool AID project in the seventh episode confirmed that the season had an ongoing act, even if this was not always obvious. With “Cinemacon”, the first part of a two-part season finale, everything comes together when the Continental team goes to Las Vegas to show the exhibitors gathered there: Kool-Aid: The filmSarah Polley The silver lakeZoë Kravitz’s Blackwing (Kravitz could even participate), The promotion Actor Paul Dano, Ron Howards Alphabet cityJohnny Knoxvilles “Medical Disinformation” satire Duhpocalypse!The Olivia Wilde Noir Rolling blackoutAnd the little Rel -Howery/Ziwe comedy with a title that was made illegible on his poster. We saw these films in different stages of development and everything indicates that Matt and the others have good reasons to be proud of the results – or could be proud as everyone else could be Duhpocalypse! – and expect a warm reception. Unfortunately, but not unexpected, you will encounter some of your own production on the way to this reception.

When the episode begins, his mother ate dinner (played by Rhea Perlman, whose voice we heard in the previous episode, but who remained off the screen). It is going well at work, he tells her. However, his personal life is a different story. He doesn’t see anyone and although he likes his employees, he is not sure whether they see him as a friend. Another kind of mother could tell him that he has to clear his priorities, but Matt’s mother is different, and this could reveal a little about how he is. “This studio is the most important thing in her life,” she says. “And that’s good!” It is also about “winning comiccon”. Your understanding of his job may not be that strong, but she is proud of her boy.

While Matt’s mother orders dessert, Matt meets with Gemma, a friendly drug dealer, whom he knows thanks to Dave Franco, who sells some “party fisheries”. After Gemma explains the dosage of the mushroom tree, Matt repeats her again to her. He has it. Under no circumstances will he screw it up.

Of course, it doesn’t take long for Matt to screw it up, but first he has to come to Vegas. After Matt has listened to an encouraging episode by Matt Belloni’s Podcast on the way to the airport, he takes the sky with most of the team (Maya), which he treats with some Kool-Aid mimosa. (Patty’s is alcohol -free.) Everyone is high, including Quinns. She celebrates the green lightness of her first film, a “Coralie Fargeeat Body Horror”, a performance that she somehow achieved without seeing some of Matt’s favorite films: Summer schoolPresent mannequinand, most relevant for this excursion, Fear and waste in Las Vegas. The first bad omen when Matt drinks her ongoing success before it could be the “biggest year of all” from Continental: the mimoses are terrible.

Quinn saw SwingerHowever, this also appears relevant if it accompanies Sal and Matt to Matt’s party. Sal has cocaine in pharmaceutical quality and Matt has these Pilomies, which he wants to perform on a record in the service of “Old-School-Hollywood-Vibes”. It will be an unforgettable night, just not for the reasons they hope. But first you have the passage for the presentation the next day, which looks great! Maya and her team have a spectacular series of presentations that are planned for all upcoming publications in Continental. Even Nicholas Stoller is there, whatever controversy nearby Kool-Aid: The filmApparently included the use of AI animations. He passes on Matt’s offer to take part in a “old school Hollywood buffet”, a phrase that becomes more threatening during the night. You only need the Continental CEO Griffin Mill (Bryan Cranston, which has returned for the first time since the premiere) to complete the sample (although Patty understandably is not in this idea).

It is due to Matt on Griffin and praises him on the stage. The foundation is not that difficult, but your subsequent conversation will soon decrease several alarming curves. The first is grip of revelation of his age. When asked to guess it, Matt 65 says what he learns is Griffin’s “goal” for such assumptions, but he is actually 82 and has no interest in leaving the industry. The problem: A member of the Comworld Board tries to sell Continental to Amazon. These are bad news for everyone. It almost certainly means the end of Matts and everyone else and the end of Continental as a prestigious studio. There is only one way to prevent this: Continental has to step into the ass like never before.

When step one of this process is a party with “cool people who become high like fuck”, then organized in good shape. He has released the buffet and consumed what he felt for an appropriate dosage of mushrooms. So Quinn, who is high in a combination of mushrooms, ketamine and her first inspection of Encino man. Everything seems to be going well until Patty sounds the alarm that Griffin is “out of control”. He should not be wasted with the talent, and she says this with the authority of someone who “has been completed by Kevin Spacey’s toilet”. Even Sal and Maya who are on the way to be pretty confused, they don’t like what it looks like, and wants to get matt and do something.

It is a non -enviable task that gripper does not make it easier because it is indeed extremely confused. Matt believes that he is helpful by offering what he does for microdules of mushrooms as an alternative to Griffins. This does not go very well and when the others notice how sweaty is matt, they get worried about him. It turned out that he misunderstood the dosage. In addition, he cannot keep the news about the potential sale of Continental. But don’t worry: All you have to do is to give the presentation of your life, which is not possible if you bring gripper out of circulation and to bed.

Sals solution: Fee a security call and close the party. And Matt might have gone if Zoë Kravitz didn’t appear. It only takes ten or 15 minutes to impress them. Instead, he accidentally gets up when she misunderstands the objects on the Hollywood buffet of the old school and in the words of Dave Franco “21 grams of Shrroooooms!”

Suddenly the administration of the Kravitz crisis becomes MATTS focus. Could she have brain damage? Franco has heard that this could be one thing. Should she throw up? Franco finds this a good idea. Fortunately, at least the frightened Star/filmmaker from Franco and finally into an additional bedroom in Matts Suite, in which you can simply relax and wait until the drugs decrease. When matted back seconds later, she describes the shattering torture in which she is located and falsely believes that he is alone for hours. The bad omen keep piling up.

In the hall, the rest of the Continental Execs recognize why they are so high and that Griffin, wherever it is, is much, much higher. You will also learn the disturbing message that Griffin is 82 years old, and Franco from Franco the even more disturbing news that he eats after the cheese with bare hands. Fortunately, this means that he has a trace of cheese behind him. Fortunately, the sober pastlet has led to the management of the search for the booklet CEO.

They go to the Casino floor and start screaming, a safe way to attract attention and a questionable way to track down grip. However, the camera finds it. He eats lobster by hand and wears a headband with a pair of shining penises instead of rabbits. . She throws Belloni out of the fragrance, but loses grip.

When Sal finds him near the channel of the casino, he became a tourist attraction. Quinn, Matt and Maya join them, but are distracted long enough so that Griffin falls into a passing gondola. (Remember everyone is still very high.) Ultimately, it is Patty who hovers him outside, but as if she grabs the “bitch of all bitches” and tries to remember whether he has fired them, Patty decides to transform the moment to her advantage by calling in an anonymous tip for Belloni. “Come to the Venetian if you want the ball of the year” Scream. When Griffin emits his intestine behind Patty – which they remember, the only member of the gang who knows nothing about the potential Amazon sale and therefore does not notice how much is at stake – everything she can do is laugh.

What a chaotic episode. But like the rest of the season, it is controlled in the service of a series of well-orchestrated comic offset. At this point it is hardly remarkable if The studio Use a scene that is as difficult as the party sequence of the middle of the episode. However, it is still quite impressive. In addition, it feels as if the season has built up to this moment, whether we knew it or not. With all the problems that Matt had, he continued to put the studio and his films in the first place. All this hard work should pay off. Instead, it could be free. To be continued …

• Everyone in this episode that gets the chance to play high does it really does it. Cranston puts everyone aside with great results. Hahn has the most memorable line delivery with the way she says: “It’s the reason why I am like that damn high?!? “But Kravitz uses the price by panicking the show’s single-take.

• The support of the show has come a little in the last episodes, so it is nice to see that the complete ensemble is used here. This includes Dwayne Perkins as Tyler and Keyla Monterroso Mejia as Petra. Has become neither The A lot to do this season, but they have the most time they got.