Hollywood has a reputation for giving stories a larger-than-life, idealized treatment. That’s not always a bad thing. The eponymous Netflix show, created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennen, sees the Golden Age of Hollywood as it should have been.
Rather than a seedy land of backstabbing, casting couches, closet cases, sexism and racial disparity, the new series envisions a Hollywood where rivals could become friends, people of color could become stars, and movies could push the envelope of social