The Studio (Seasons 1–2)

The Studio (2025) is an Apple TV+ comedy-drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Seth Rogen plays Matt Garrison, the freshly installed president of fictional Continental Studios — co-created and directed by Rogen alongside Evan Goldberg, the duo behind Superbad and This Is the End.

Matt genuinely loves movies. That's the joke, and also the tragedy. Continental's finance team wants franchises, A-list talent wants coddling, and every auteur on the lot wants to blow the budget on something uncommercial and brilliant. Each episode drops Matt into a fresh disaster — and into a cameo from a real Hollywood name playing themselves: Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Zoe Kravitz, Bryan Cranston among them. The ensemble around Rogen includes Catherine Keener, Catherine O'Hara, Ike Barinholtz, and Chase Sui Wonders, all running the same impossible sprint between art and commerce.

What makes the show land is that it's satirizing an industry from the inside — Rogen clearly knows the meetings he's mocking. It's sharper than a showbiz comedy has any right to be, and funnier when it's specific. Stream The Studio (2025) online on iFILM.