The latest Ryan Murphy Netflix miniseries 'Hollywood' offers an alternate history in which a plucky, diverse handful of brave Hollywood writers, actors, directors and producers shatter entrenched social, racial and gender barriers.
which premieres Friday, believes it — its entire narrative infrastructure is built upon that notion, in fact — and it will spend its seven-episode running time striving to convince you.
On a purely plot level, however, it's tough to quibble with how deftly the series weaves its disparate threads together. Jack Castello is a good-looking wannabe actor in postwar Hollywood with a pregnant wife and no prospects. He falls in with slick lothario Ernie , who runs a prostitution ring out of a Hollywood gas station.
There's also the idealistic wannabe director Raymond and his ingenue girlfriend, Camille , who'll compete for a potential breakout role with the beautiful Claire ., where he was mostly expected to smolder — there's something agreeably doofy about his Jack. Parsons' character is cartoonishly loathsome, but then Murphy and his writers do love painting with broad strokes, and anyway Parsons is having a ball.
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