"Hollywood," a provocative new limited series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers trying to make it in post-World War II Tinseltown - no matter the cost. It debuts May 1, on Netflix.
Historians are fond of calling the decade following World War II "the Golden Age" of movies. And it's hard to argue. Yet to have been part of it you mostly had to be white, straight and preferably male. But what if it had been a time in which racism, sexism and homophobia didn't exist? What if it was like "Hollywood," the Netflix miniseries recasting post-war Tinseltown as a workplace where inclusion remains an obstacle, but one that can be conquered by those who simply dared?
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