8.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Studio (2025)
The Studio (2025)
Overview
Desperate for celebrity approval, the newly appointed head of a movie studio and his executive team at Continental Studios must juggle corporate demands with creative ambitions as they try to keep movies alive and relevant.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Apple TVRating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Neutral
Judaism: Positive
Viewer Rating
8.2
Overview
Desperate for celebrity approval, the newly appointed head of a movie studio and his executive team at Continental Studios must juggle corporate demands with creative ambitions as they try to keep movies alive and relevant.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Apple TVDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film explicitly critiques corporate Hollywood's prioritization of profit over artistic integrity and satirizes superficial diversity initiatives, advocating for authentic representation and human creativity, which aligns with progressive cultural and systemic critiques.
The series features visible diversity in its casting. Its narrative explicitly critiques Hollywood's systemic biases, including racial issues and male-dominated power structures, and satirizes performative DEI efforts, making these themes central to its storytelling.
Secondary
The Studio offers an indirect and superficial portrayal of LGBTQ+ representation, primarily through a satirical lens critiquing Hollywood's performative diversity. The show focuses on industry politics rather than developing LGBTQ+ characters or themes in depth, resulting in a depiction that is neither affirming nor problematic, but rather incidental to the main narrative.
The show, created by Jewish filmmakers, uses humor and satire to challenge negative stereotypes about Jewish people in Hollywood. It explores Jewish identity with nuance, depicting characters who are more bumbling than powerful, thereby subverting harmful tropes and fostering audience sympathy for the Jewish experience.
There is no available information or direct description of *The Studio*'s narrative or characters to assess its portrayal of transsexual individuals or themes. Therefore, an evaluation of its net impact on transsexual representation cannot be determined.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The series features original characters created for the show, and real-life personalities are portrayed with their actual genders. No characters' on-screen gender differs from their established gender in source material or historical record.
The Studio features original characters and is not an adaptation of any prior source material. Therefore, there are no pre-established racial identities for its characters that could be subject to a race swap.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
8.1
7.6
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9.2
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