Starting with The Studio makes sense: Seth Rogen’s Emmy-dominating love letter to Hollywood chaos, is a comedy-drama about a cinephile trying to make a good film in an IP-driven world
John Cena's standalone show capitalises on commentary while leaning into the jingoism satire, setting our anti-hero on a redemption arc, and stays fun, weird, and gory.
Entourage is the bro-y 2000s blueprint for Hollywood satire: dated but self-aware, showing how fame, ego, and money wreck friendships and judgment.
Doom Patrol is gloriously unhinged: traumatised misfits with unwanted powers saving the world while barely functioning, prioritising damage over heroics
Sadly just one season, Watchmen uses its alternate America to explore race, power, and generational trauma, taking a lot of creative liberties from the graphic novel that inspired it.
30 Rock is showbiz hall-of-fame stuff: Tina Fey wrangles chaos, egos, and corporate nonsense in an industry constantly dunking on the illusion that anyone in charge knows what they’re doing.