{"id":4908,"date":"2025-04-30T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4908"},"modified":"2025-04-30T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T05:00:08","slug":"rogens-the-studio-brings-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4908","title":{"rendered":"Rogen&#8217;s The Studio brings it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m a little late to the party on this one, but let the official record show (finally) that Seth Rogen&#8217;s new series on Apple TV+,\u00a0<em>The Studio<\/em>, is up there with the best of what Rogen (and Apple TV+) has to offer. I&#8217;m a completist when it comes to Rogen projects (and a bit of an Apple TV+ completist as well), and this one isn&#8217;t just to fill in a gap.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Studio<\/em> places Rogen somewhat against type, playing the successful head of a movie studio and among Hollywood&#8217;s elite. In most of his screen appearances Rogen plays the everyman, but here he&#8217;s at the top of a corporate ladder, owner of a classic car collection, and doted on by his flunkies.<\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s not without his flaws and insecurities. And that&#8217;s the genius of\u00a0<em>The Studio<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Any comparison to Woody Allen in 2025 invariably will elicit negative opinions (nothing to do with art), but\u00a0<em>The Studio<\/em> definitely has a classic Allen vibe minus all politics and, well, other things. The jazz, the neuroses, the respect for old Hollywood and cinema writ large&#8211;it&#8217;s all there, and all good to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Is Rogen the heir apparent to Woody Allen? Talented? Prolific? A certain Jewish touch of self-doubt?<\/p>\n<p>The world needs a clean version of Woody Allen and this may be it.<\/p>\n<p>Awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m a little late to the party on this one, but let the official record show (finally) that Seth Rogen&#8217;s new series on Apple TV+,\u00a0The Studio, is up there with the best of what Rogen (and Apple TV+) has &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4908\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4909,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions\/4909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}