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This club is where Ryan MurphysHollywoodbelongs.
It is a baffling Hindenburg of TV.
Ernies their pimp, but the opportunities they get at the gas station are real.
Jack gets an in with Ace Pictures, a studio looking to hire new acting talent.
Archie manages to sell his screenplay to the same studio.
And wouldnt you know it, Raymond ends up attached to that project as the director.
Its an idea the entire series circles repeatedly, the temptation of a Dreamland version of this cultural history.
The grand, fantastic trajectory of Raymond and Archies movie is just as dreamlike, and significantly more blinkered.
On the surface, its a sweet idea.
Equality, I suppose, or maybe financial security?
The end goal forHollywoodis visibility, the right to live as you are without having to hide.
The opposite of oppression is being seen.
(Hes very mean, but hes wounded!
The underlying ideology ofHollywoodis chillingly coherent, but the expression of it all is fantastically haphazard.
Narrative time moves in illegible bumps and skids.
In some sequences, its goofiness succeeds in being fun.
By the end, though, I kept wondering what the point of this alternate history exercise couldve been.
