Seth Rogen has had a fascinating career ever since he debuted in 1999’s Freaks and Geeks. In fact, pretty much everybody has their own favorite Seth Rogen movie (and I’m just talking about the ones that he’s acted in. I’m not even referring to the films that he’s produced, like my favorite TMNT movie, Mutant Mayhem ).

The new comedy gives a behind-the-scenes look at a movie studio barely keeping it together. “I got into all this cause, you know, I love movies. But now I have this fear that my job is to ruin them.” That’s the opening line of the trailer for Apple TV+’s new series,

The Studio,” on Apple TV+, takes the conundrum at the heart of the film industry and runs with it, to frequently hilarious effect, writes Moira Macdonald.

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's hilarious 10-episode AppleTV+ series is heightened, but it's very much based on Hollywood reality.

Well, Seth Rogen stars as Matt Remick, the freshly appointed head of a flailing Hollywood studio, trying to keep things afloat while everything around him is very much not fine. Kind of like that meme with the dog smiling while everything is on fire.