HE IS DECADES TOO LATE FOR HIS CLOSE-UP

Midway through the first season of The Studio, Matt Bemick (Seth Rogen), a big wheel in the movie industry, finds himself at a dinner table of civilians. Though he’s used to impressing people with his job, his companions are annoyed. “If you want to watch TV,” one says, “have you seen The Bear?”

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To borrow a line from The Sopranos, one of the first big series to muscle in on the movies’ territory, Matt is feeling like a guy who came in at the end of something. When the episode satirizes people on Apple TV, he gets his dream job, as he is tapped to head the fictional Continental Studios when its storied leader (Catherine O’Hara) is defenestrated after a soufflé of flops.

Matt, a movie guy’s movie guy whose vintage-car collection embodies his love for an earlier showbiz era, is ready to live his Hollywood fantasy. He will lavish money on auteurs and let them shoot on actual film. He will be known as “talent-friendly” executive. He will make art.