Just when you thought you’d completed Netflix, the streaming gods answer our prayers and announce a new drama that’s sure to have everyone hooked.
Hollywood is the new seven-part limited series from Ryan Murphy, the brains behind other binge-worthy shows such as American Horror Story, Glee and The Politician, as well as hit films like Eat, Pray, Love.
Co-created with Ian Brennan, the series follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they do everything they can to make it big.
Murphy described it as ‘a love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown’ when he first announced the show last year.
It’s clear that it’s not going to be all glitz and glamour, though. “Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain of Hollywood’s Golden Age, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender and sexuality that continue to this day,” reads the logline. “Provocative and incisive, Hollywood exposes and examines decades-old power dynamics, and what the entertainment landscape might look like if they had been dismantled.”
The show’s writer and director Janet Mock said: “With the present so fraught and the future uncertain, we turned to the past for direction, uncovering buried history to spin an aspirational tale of what ifs: What if a band of outsiders were given a chance to tell their own story? What if the person with greenlight power was a woman? The screenwriter a black man? What if the heroine was a woman of colour? The matinee idol openly gay?… Hollywood is a love letter to our little industry town where dreamers dwell, stars are born, and magic transcends reality.”
Sounds like the gripping drama we need in our lives right now. When will it be hitting our screens? Luckily, we won’t have to wait long as Hollywood is set to air on Netflix on 1st May.
In terms of cast, Darren Criss (Glee) stars as character Raymond, The Politician‘s David Corenswet stars as Jack, as well as Jeremy Pope (The Ranger), Samara Weaving (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) Laura Harrier (Spider-Man: Homecoming), Dylan McDermott (American Horror Story), Holland Taylor (Legally Blonde) and Jim Parsons (yes, that’s Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory).
Watch the trailer for Hollywood below. 1st May can’t come quick enough.
