The Presentation (The Studio)
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Episode 10
- Seth Rogen
- Evan Goldberg
- Peter Huyck
- Alex Gregory
- Frida Perez
| "The Presentation" | |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 10 |
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| Cinematography by | Adam Newport-Berra |
| Editing by | Eric Kissack |
| Original air date | May 21, 2025 |
| Running time | 26 minutes |
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"The Presentation" is the tenth episode and first season finale of the American satirical comedy television series The Studio. The episode was written by series co-creators Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, Frida Perez, and directed by Rogen and Goldberg. It was released on Apple TV+ on May 21, 2025.
The series follows Matt Remick, the newly appointed head of the film production company Continental Studios. He attempts to save the floundering company in an industry undergoing rapid social and economic changes. In the episode, Matt and his staff try to get Griffin come to his senses before their incoming presentation at CinemaCon.
The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised the humor, performances and writing, although some were mixed over the episode's placement as the season finale and short runtime.
Matt, Sal, Quinn and Maya find Griffin intoxicated outside The Venetian alongside Patty who recorded him with her phone, before he loses consciousness. Patty reveals she called Matthew Belloni to the scene to ruin Griffin's image, but has a change of heart when she is informed that Amazon is planning on buying Continental Studios. Taking inspiration from Weekend at Bernie's, they work to move Griffin into the hotel to prepare him.
Along the way, they evade Belloni in the hallway and get him to his room. However, Zoë Kravitz and Dave Franco are still experiencing the effects of the mushrooms, and it is clear that they will not be stable for the presentation. Desperate, Sal decides to supply Griffin with cocaine, allowing him to properly wake up. When the presentation begins, Franco and Kravitz are forced to do it in their current state; Franco's energy manages to hold off suspicions as he promotes Alphabet City. As Mitch is still unwilling to let Kravitz go on stage, Patty is forced to improvise by presenting The Silver Lake. Kravitz finally gets on stage, where she delivers a great performance by presenting Blackwing.
As Nicholas Stoller presents The Kool-Aid Movie, Griffin is still in no shape for his speech, so Matt addresses the crowd while Maya prepares Griffin. Matt begins by feeling proud of the studio's upcoming slate, and then decides to get his staff to join him on stage to thank them. When he calls up Griffin, he is revealed to be hanging from wires above, and he accidentally falls to the stage. Griffin is unable to read the teleprompter and instead just utters "movies" repeatedly. Matt saves the presentation by having the audience and staff chant back and forth, ending on a high note. As the staff celebrates, Griffin dances while suspended by the wires.
Production
Development
The episode was written by series co-creators Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, Frida Perez, and directed by Rogen and Goldberg. It marked Rogen's third writing credit, Goldberg's third writing credit, Huyck's fourth writing credit, Gregory's sixth writing credit, Perez's third writing credit, and the tenth directing credit for both Rogen and Goldberg.[1]
Before the episode begins, Dave Franco provides a recap of the previous episode while inebriated. Rogen says that the idea was not originally in the script, and that it was a last-minute decision.[2] Franco commented, "It was a brilliant idea to have the most fucked-up character at the party recap what happened at the party."[3] According to Franco, he recorded the recap in just 10 minutes.[2]
Casting
Zoë Kravitz was very delighted in playing a spoof version of herself in the episode, explaining "If you can't make fun of yourself, I think there's something wrong. And so I was really excited to make fun of myself, or the idea of myself, and the awards cycle, and all of that. I think it's something to laugh at and to explore — it's not just pointing and laughing."[4]
Franco commented that he tried to maintain his energy even when he was not filming, "In-between takes, I was trying to conserve my energy. Nicholas Stoller was there — I've known him a long time and adore him, and I remember him trying to riff with me between takes. And then after a few takes, he realized: “Oh shit, Dave's exhausted. I'm going to let him be.” But it's just trying to find those moments to recharge during takes."[5]
Filming
The episode was filmed at the same time as the prior episode, requiring 11 days. Evan Goldberg admitted the challenges of filming the two-part finale, "We left The Venetian once, to get an exterior shot of Seth almost getting heat stroke in 110-degree weather. Besides that, it was casino, casino, casino." Production designer Julie Berghoff said that as casinos were very strict over their depiction on media, they could not include scenes where the characters could buy drugs in the casinos.[6]