Seth Rogen’s Hollywood satire ‘The Studio’ is (mostly) worth the hype

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Ever the hapless yet affable stoner-next-door, Rogen’s schtick involves a long series of characters motivated by—if anything—stasis rather than motion. Griffin Mill is a clear homage to fictional studio executive Griffin Mill from Robert Altman’s 1992 studio satire “The Player,” starring Tim Robbins. Can the cast of “Kool-Aid” be all Black, or is that suggesting that Kool-Aid is a “Black drink”? The show is up for a number of significant Emmy Awards this coming weekend, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (for Rogen). In real Hollywood, Matt Remick works in the mail room and is as high as, well, Seth Rogen.