Seth Rogen’s The Studio satirizes a long-gone Hollywood

The Studio, Seth Rogen’s new auteur project on Apple TV+, deserves credit for openly bragging about how expensive it is. In its second episode, the real-life actress and director Sarah Polley schemes her way into getting Rogen’s Matt Rennick, head of the fictional Continental Studios, to spend $800,000 for the rights to a Rolling Stones song for the clinching scene of her latest small-budget lesbian coming-of-age comedy. Rennick slapsticks his way into ruining the most important day of her shoot, and the episode closes with the rising swells of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” Because the show is dense with witty meta-comments on Hollywood waste, we can be sure that the figure we heard a few minutes earlier was an authentic one. Maybe

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