Matt Remick (Seth Rogen) should’ve known better. But I’m glad he didn’t. Thanks to his (very) faulty shroom math and an aversion to food labels, the head of Continental Studios accidentally doses the two most important people (Zoë Kravitz as Zoë Kravitz and Bryan Cranston as Griffin Mill) at his ultra-hip party on the night before CinemaCon. What unfolds in the penultimate episode of "The Studio"’s freshman season is one of the most hilarious psychedelic-fueled episodes of television ever made as the Continental crew — high out of their gourds themselves — attempt to wrangle their out-of-control star and boss. Everyone commits to the bit. Everyone gets loose and weird. There’s a copious amount of nacho cheese involved. And it all results in a treasure trove of comedy gold.
Throughout the first season of "The Studio," the series has distinguished itself as delighting in intricate filmmaking by making every single scene into a oner, or a single, continuous take. While other episodes have utilized this method to create great tension (“The Oner”) or fantastic spectacle (“The Golden Globes”), in this installment it makes us feel as off-kilter as the characters on screen as they begin to bounce off the walls of a palatial suite at the Venetian in Las Vegas.
