Murphy announced his new Netflix series on Instagram two days before the Oscars, describing it as being "a love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown." But will Murphy follow the Pose route in tackling Hollywood's Golden Age, focusing on people who have not been focused on before? As Angela Watercutter put it, "Murphy, perhaps more than any other showrunner of his generation, understands the conversations television shows have with their audience. They provide narratives, sure, but they are best when their messages work in parallel—the story running on one track, the broader message, the point, running on the other. The third rail, then, is a throughline about what the show means in the current pop culture moment. Should Murphy take on Hollywood the way he's taken on misogyny through the metaphor of witches (American Horror Story: Coven) or queer rights through show choir (Glee), he could show the hidden (closeted, racist, blacklisted) side of the city that often gets left out of the industry's Golden Age tales."
TOPICS: Ryan Murphy, Netflix, Hollywood