The Studio – Season 1 Episode 8 Recap & Review
The Golden Globes
Episode 8 of The Studio starts with Matt en-route to the Golden Globes. His studio's movie, Open, is set to win an award but he wants Zoe Kravitz, the main star, to highlight Matt's name in her acceptance speech and thank him. He shows up at the Globes and Patty is here already.
There's a ton of Influencers with their phones, which throws Matt and Patty into a spin, briefly mentioning DEI before meeting up with Sal and preparing to head in for the big show. Adam Scott is here too, and he reunites with Sal as they happen to be old friends.
Up on stage, the 'comedian' isn't exactly scathing with his retorts to those in attendance, but softly talks about how Hollywood need Avatar 3 to be a success and hopes for people to watch the film 'for the love of movies'.
At the table, Matt does his best to be present and happy, but he's also worried that Zoe isn't going to mention him in her speech. Patty empathizes with Matt's plight and brings up that executives don't get the limelight like they should and riffs that they're basically invisible if they're not thanked.
Now, this is at complete odds with a lot of the acceptance speeches we see. During the night, Adam Scott wins Best Supporting Actor and along with thanking Netflix and Ted Sarandos, which seems to be sweeping awards here, Sal is also called out for helping Scott in the past.
Matt starts to get angsty and does his best to try and talk to Zoe about her acceptance speech but she's completely blasé about the whole thing. Along with this speech malarkey, Matt is also starting to get annoyed as Sal is thanked by a lot of the winners.
Matt even tries to change the teleprompter at one point but Zoe shows up backstage and sees what he's doing. Her façade slips here and it turns out she's confident that she's going to win the award. Furthermore, she has no plans of thanking Matt either. She's been practicing her acceptance speech for years and has now perfected it so she isn't looking to change it any time soon.
Thanks to Matt's shenanigans, Zoe cancels her next project, Blackwing. As Matt spirals, he winds up seeing Ted Sarandos in the bathroom, who admits that he's actually built his shout-outs he's been getting all night into his contracts. Ted knows that these people have no need to actually thank them, and scoffs at Matt calling himself an artist.
Zoe's movie does win after all and she gives her rehearsed speech on stage, ending it by thanking Matt Remick… but she's cut off before her speech is heard. Matt leaves afterwards, downcast and unhappy, but it turns out Zoe has had a change of heart. She's going to do the Blackwing movie after all. However, that does nothing to dampen Matt's mood.
The Episode Review
So are we supposed to feel sorry for Matt not having his ego stroked? Or are we supposed to be laughing at him for taking these pandering award shows so seriously? For an episode titled The Golden Globes, there's a shocking lack of self-awareness over what really matters – and that comes from the general public.
This was the perfect episode to have a scathing comedian on stage ripping into Matt Remick and showing off his true persona, or even highlighting some of the absolute slop coming out of Hollywood with some creative trailers for these other movies. They could have even kept the Kool-Aid gag going and had some jokes thrown at Matt's expense too.
But again, these omissions only highlight what's lacking in Hollywood right now – creativity. The show has been frustratingly light on creative solutions, or getting to the crux of why Hollywood is failing right now – and no it's not because of Netflix.
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