Netflix's Hollywood Review: 6 Ups & 3 Downs

3. Beginnings Of Brilliance

There is something oddly fascinating about the idea of changing the past. We've seen it happen in countless films and TV shows before, wondering what would happen if we had the chance to do it for real?

Hollywood also asks that, in a sense. No, it doesn't employ time travel tropes or anything like that to do it. It just does it because it's Ryan Murphy, and it's Hollywood and the end result is every bit as compelling as it is unexpected.

The truth is that Hollywood flirts with a ton of great ideas and only executes a handful of them the right way, but that right there is what makes it such an engaging ride. The notion of using the cinematic platform of the past to raise awareness on issues that are very much discussed in the present is an ambitious one, and it works because Murphy and Ian Brennan know how to make it happen.

Does it deviate a few too many times? You betcha. Do some storylines never feel like they get the development they need? Sure. But Hollywood highlights how Hollywood itself has the power to change the world and how it should, quite frankly, use that power to change it more often.

And regardless of how some of it pans out, that's a heck of a narrative.