Hollywood series review

Since Hollywood aired on Netflix last Friday everyone has been talking about it and I was really looking forward to watching it, so, I did it and here´s my opinion.

Ryan Murphy´s new series stars David Coresnwet as a young man who moves to LA with the dream of becoming a movie star but starts working at a fuel station that takes the clients to "Dreamland". So, the first episodes of this series were quite different, at least for me, of what I was expecting. The show starts in a way and then starts changing into something totally different when suddenly everything is perfect and every problem is solved literally in 5 minutes.

The first 3 episodes focus mainly on the main character and how he will do ANYTHING to achieve his dream, even prostitutes himself, this is not considered a spoiler as it happens literally in the first 10 minutes of the first chapter. Also, we can see another character who is struggling with some abuse of power by his agent and his being forced to do things he doesn´t want to. After episode 3, things change a lot and everything starts to be extremely perfect, and unrealistic. It feels like the whole prostitution and abuse thing was something normal and no one makes nothing about it and I felt like that was something really controversial, and not in a good way. The series also talks about some other big topics in the movie industry like homophobia and racism, and with those two topics they do make a move and try to change a thing but I founded it really disturbing that the whole abuse situation and the prostitution were normalized and even ignored.

The plot was quite unrealistic but I have to say that I found quite interesting the fact that Ryan Murphy created a fiction in which a black gay man can write a movie and get an Oscar for it in the 50s, which is something AWESOME and unfortunately, it´s something not very likely to happen not even now in 2020.

The best thing this series has, in my opinion, is the cast. This series is full of young stars and they all make a really good job: David Corenswet, Darren Cris, Samara Weaving, Jeremy Pope, Jake Picking, and Laura Harrier. It also has some veteran actors, who are AMAZING, like Patti LuPone, Dylan McDermott, Holland Taylor, and Jim Parsons, who specifically made a really compelling and disturbing performance as the perverted and disgusting actors agent. The characters were all really likable, most of them, and I got to emphasize with them BUT as I´ve said some moments felt extremely convenient and perfect so by the end of the series I started to care less and less about what happened to them.

So, to sum up, Hollywood is a really entertaining series which I would recommend but there are some holes and some aspects in the plot that don´t really make sense and sometimes it feels too artificial, still, it´s worth watching and good.

8/10