The original post: /r/television by /u/Leafy_Swarley on 2025-10-06 03:34:15+00:00.
I watched it mostly because I like what Seth Rogen does. But this one hit different.
Yeah it’s satire and it’s funny. But there’s something else going on. You can feel like he’s trying to say something real about how broken the whole system is. Not just making fun of it but showing how hard it is to create anything honest in that world.
He co-created the show and directed parts of it. And you feel it. The rhythm is weird on purpose. Some moments feel too long. Some cut too quick. There’s tension everywhere. I read that when he directed the Scorsese episode he was actually scared it wouldn’t work. He even had a backup camera just in case. That vulnerability came through.
There’s this one line in the show where a character says they got into this because they loved movies and now their job is basically to ruin them. That apparently came from a real meeting he had. That line stuck with me.
The show isn’t perfect. Some characters drift in and out. But overall it hit me harder than I expected. It felt like he was turning the mirror on himself too not just on the business.
Did it hit the same for anyone else or am I reading too much into it?