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The Studio should win all the Emmys – why has no-one in Britain watched it?

The Studio should win all the Emmys – why has no-one in Britain watched it?

While not every episode of The Studio is one-take, each one makes use of very extended takes, which peaks in episode 9, CinemaCon, probably the single funniest episode of any show this decade. It features the gang turning up to the important fan conference to present their slate, only for Remick to hold a party in his suite the night before, and in typical fashion try be cool by laying on 'an old-school Hollywood buffet,' meaning drugs in the form of magic mushroom chocolate bars. The problem being that he misinterpreted the dosage of the mushrooms, and the chocolate is super-strong, which he doesn't realise until Franco and Zoe Kravitz start tripping wildly; but not as wildly as Cranston's Griffin Mill. Cue an all-timer of a sequence in which Mill goes on the rampage around the hotel with the team trying to find where he is before the press get wind of it, and having to 'Weekend at Bernie's' the man out of the situation.
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