Netflix's ‘Hollywood' Ponders How Tinseltown Would Have Looked Like in a Woke and Re-Imagined '40s [Trailer]

Rewriting history and pretending it never happened is exactly the problem with today’s ultra-progressive way of thinking. Shouldn’t we learn from our mistakes in past history instead of pretending they never existed?

Producer, director, and creator extraordinaire Ryan Murphy (creator of “Glee” and “American Horror Story”) has decided to rewrite Hollywood history in the aptly titled “Hollywood” (Netflix 05.01.20). A new limited series from Murphy and Ian Brennan. The show follows aspiring actors and directors in a post-World War II Hollywood and how Tinseltown may have looked like had the decades-old power dynamics been shattered in favor of more progressive attitudes, openly gay actors, militant feminists actresses, and people of color taking on leading roles.

But of course, re-thinking America’s ethnic and sexual history isn’t anything new in storytelling art of the 21st century — one has to just look at Lin Manuel Miranda’s rousing success on Broadway with “Hamilton” to understand where Murphy’s influences may be residing for this new Netflix show.

A look at the newly-released trailer below and I’m already cringing at the thought of even watching this.

Here’s the synopsis:

A new limited series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, HOLLYWOOD follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the cost. Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain of Hollywood’s Golden Age, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender and sexuality that continue to this day. Provocative and incisive, HOLLYWOOD exposes and examines decades-old power dynamics, and what the entertainment landscape might look like if they had been dismantled.