Hollywood
Ryan Murphy’s revisionist Netflix series trades history for self-serving fantasy.

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Episode Notes
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Slate’s Sam Adams, Matthew Dessem, and Daniel Schroeder spoil Hollywood. Ryan Murphy and co-creator Ian Brennan reimagine a more inclusive golden-age of filmmaking. While the first couple episodes of the Netflix series stay relatively grounded in reality, the series takes a sharp right turn into self-serving fantasy by simplifying the fight for equality and progress within Hollywood.
You can read Sam Adam’s review here.
You can read Matthew Dessem’s Fact Versus Fiction here.
Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.
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Podcast production by Rosemary Belson.