July 3, 2025 • 10 mins
🏆🎬 In this episode of The Rank Podcast, John returns to his Sitcom Rankings with a review of the 2025 comedy hit The Studio, starring Seth Rogen. This time, he breaks down Episode 8 – “The Golden Globes,” where awards season fever hits the writers’ room in full force.
As the fictional show within The Studio receives an unexpected Golden Globe nomination, egos inflate, alliances shift, and everyone scrambles to claim credit. From awkward acceptance speech rehearsals to a chaotic dress rehearsal meltdown, the episode delivers sharp industry satire and plenty of laugh-out-loud moments.
John explores how The Studio nails the absurdity of Hollywood award culture while continuing to build its ensemble chemistry. Does “The Golden Globes” deserve a golden spot in the rankings—or is it all style and no substance?
Tune in to find out!
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(00:00):
All of the people receiving recognition are making a ton of
money too. Usually anyway.
I mean, Zoe basically says that at one point in the episode.
She says I'm already rich, I'm already famous.
Awards are all we have. And it goes to show that no
matter how much money or fame you amass, human nature
seemingly always wants more. Kind of greedy.
(00:38):
Hello and welcome back to another episode of The Rank.
I'm John and today we're going to be ranking another episode of
the studio. The premise of this whole thing
is to figure out what sitcom is the best of all time by going
through every episode and ranking them and averaging them
out to figure out which one is the best overall.
Now, if you're enjoying these episodes or if you're just a fan
of the studio and you enjoy consuming content about it,
(01:00):
please subscribe and or follow like the episodes comment,
e-mail us emails at the bottom. Please also consider becoming a
patron on our Patreon side of Patreon dot com slash The Rank
podcast. Now, today we're ranking the 8th
episode of the first season of the studio titled The Golden
Globes. It was written by Alex Gregory
and directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
And since this is the new series, I avoid spoilers for it.
(01:22):
I know it's been out for about acouple months at this point, but
still want to give people a chance to see it.
Let's get into it, starting withThe Potent Notables.
So we get a bunch of cameos in this, as we typically do.
One of which is Adam Scott, who claims that he slept on Sal
Saperstein's couch. Well, in fact, Adam Scott indeed
crashed on Ike's couch, Ike Barinholtz's couch in 2001.
(01:43):
Adam actually shared a photo on his Instagram account of him and
Ike Barinholtz on said couch. He actually captioned it.
Me and Sal circa 2001. That's cute stuff.
So let's talk about another cameo, Zoe Kravitz's camera.
Now, she said she was playing a quote, more psychotic version of
herself. She also claimed that she's a
big fan of Rogan and Goldberg and that she was excited to take
(02:05):
the meeting about being in the show.
Quote. I hadn't read anything and I
also didn't don't even really know how many guest spots they
were planning on having and who they were going to get.
It was just really about loving the thing they were wanting to
explore in terms of filmmaking in the industry and where we're
at right now. And I thought it was really
thought provoking. End Quote.
And about the character though, she said, I would like to
believe that I'm not this personthat like desperately wants an
(02:27):
award. But there is this interesting
thing where obviously if you're campaigning for an award, in
order to even kind of be nominated, you do have to
participate a certain amount, which means it's something that
you want, which is OK, OK. But it's funny how people do
pretend like they don't care at all when you when you do have to
care a certain amount and even be considered.
So I think that kind of humble game that we like to play, of
(02:48):
course, there's elements of all of us that want to win, that
want to be the best. And so while I do think I was
channeling hopefully a person that is a little bit more
psychotic than I am, I do think that we all have parts of us
that do want to win and are embarrassed to let that part be
seen. And I thought it was a cool
thing to really play both sides of that and cool.
I thought that was a pretty coolquote from Zoe.
(03:09):
But those are the poet notables.Let's go to the episode overview
the story of this one. Well, the story is Matt Remick
is still pathetic. The entire episode is about
Matt's desire to be thanked in an acceptance speech, especially
since he has to see Ted Sarandos, who's the head of
Netflix, get thanked over and over again by other winners.
The show posits that the only recognition that studio heads
get is whether they get a thank you at an award show.
(03:30):
It feels a little self indulgent.
I mean, they don't say how much money Matt makes, but it's
enough to afford a mansion and multiple old expensive cars.
Kind of feels like you're being paid enough to not worry about
them. Although as I say that, all of
the people receiving recognitionare making a ton of money too.
Usually anyway. I mean, Zoe basically says that
at one point in the episode. She says I'm already rich, I'm
(03:53):
already famous. Awards are all we have.
And it goes to show that no matter how much money or fame
you amass, human nature seemingly always wants more.
Kind of greedy. Matt's neediness feels pretty
unbecoming of a studio head, andI find it hard to believe that
he would have gotten that job based on the way he acts.
That being said, it makes for a fun episode to watch him squirm
(04:14):
and you do end up feeling bad for him.
Actually. The highlight though is Sal.
He really gets his moment in this episode.
And Paddy's back, so it's alwaysgood to have Catherine O'Hara
stealing scenes. No quit in this episode.
So this episode is sending up award season.
We're taking a look at the behind the scenes of the Golden
Globes. It's interesting though.
They're talking about the Hollywood, Hollywood Foreign
Press because they don't own theGlobes anymore.
(04:34):
Makes me sort of wonder when this is supposed to be taking
place, because up until those lines where they mention the
Hollywood Foreign Press, I assumed it was like an alternate
version of now, like present moment.
Maybe it's a few years ago, I don't know.
Anyway, we see how the studio heads want recognition, how it
matters where you get seated, how the artists say they don't
want to win, but they really do.Going so far as to promote
(04:55):
yourself and you're moving to the judges for weeks and months
beforehand. It sort of establishes the
seeming hypocrisy of it, but it also shows that while they may
all feel disingenuous, there is an authenticity to the feelings
and excitement. I was surprised by how much I
was empathizing with Matt by theend of the episode.
You start out feeling kind of annoyed by this petulance and
neediness, but then you can't help but feel for him.
(05:16):
Like, is it so hard to just thank him?
What we need to talk about though is how they pulled out
all the stops and getting cameosfor this episode.
It's a pretty impressive list. They even chose people to win
awards that felt we had Lucia ona yellow All Downs, Quinta
Brunson, Aaron Moriarty, AnthonyStarr, Ted Sarandos, Gene Smart,
Rami Youssef, Adam Scott, Zoe Kravitz, Zack Snyder and Aaron
(05:38):
Sorkin. And I think I might have missed
a couple. I mean, and that's a lot.
And on top of all that, Rhea Pearlman voices Matt's mom.
So if you like the show just forthe cameos, this episode was
probably the peak. Well, let's see if the cameos
helped with the ranking. A wank.
So the rank is where I rank the episode based on five category,
Story, acting, dialogue, episodecoherence, and character
(06:01):
relatability. The ranking on a scale of one to
five, one being the worst, five being the best.
And then we have a laugh counterwhere I tally up the amount of
times that the episode made me laugh out loud.
One point per laugh out loud gets added to the score.
The first category is story, andI give story a 4 1/2.
It's a really good story, basically the inside of an award
show. They tend to make the stories
really tight for this show, and I usually love them for it.
(06:22):
I did find myself wishing that we could have shown more of the
politicking leading up to this though, the schmoozing and stuff
that has to be done to like to get these awards.
I think that they mention it, but they don't like show it.
I would have liked to have seen it.
I also felt like the premise wasa little shallow.
You know, I'm not complaining, I'm just, I'm just explaining
why I didn't give it a fuck. It's really good.
So the next category is acting, which I give a 4.75.
(06:42):
The acting continues to be excellent though.
Seth Rogen has really become a versatile actor.
It seems just pretty cool. And there's a depth to Matt
Remick that you might not necessarily expect going into
this. The same depth is missing a
little bit from Sal Saperstein, which is why this isn't A5.
It's almost like Seth Rogen is has become such a good Hector.
It almost shows that Ike Barinholtz isn't up to the same
(07:06):
level. And I'm not bashing Ike
Barinholtz because I think he's really funny and he's great in
this, but it does feel like SethRogen is just that much higher
above him in terms of acting. Anyway, let's go to dialogue,
which is the next category. I gave that A5 and here it
finally is. So if you've been watching all
the studio episodes that that all the rankings we've done,
(07:26):
you've known that I haven't given A5 for dialogue because I
kept being like budget doesn't make me laugh enough.
But this is my first five for dialogue.
Now, the previous week I did give it a give it a 4.85.
So it was like really close and I was saying if it just could
get me a few more laughs, it would be there while the laughs
arrive this week, Still not crazy high, but definitely
higher high enough that it's time to say that the dialogue is
(07:47):
really incredibly well done and well timed.
So now we go on to episode coherence, which I also gave A5.
Making a tight, shallow story means you don't need much to
have great coherence. Even so, that doesn't detract
from the fact that they nailed it as they so often do.
They really just don't have wasted moments here.
Everything is a build and most everything is referenced later.
It's just a it's a really well developed show.
(08:09):
Let's go to the last category, which is character relatability,
which I also I gave A5. At first I thought I wasn't
going to be able to relate with Matt, but they brought me
around. Sal doesn't have to express much
but joy in this episode, but whocan't relate to joy, right?
Honestly, if you can't, then that's kind of sad.
I can also appreciate the tightrope that Zoe has to walk.
The want the award, but not showthat you want it.
(08:30):
It all worked for me. I thought it was really good.
That brings us to the laugh counter and I think, you know
it's going to be higher than it usually is for the studio.
As I mentioned before, because you were 5 to dialogue, it was
15, which is not crazy high, butthat's pretty high.
It's higher than it's been and it's definitely going to help
the ranking of the episode. So the total for this episode is
(08:50):
a 39.25, which makes it a Holy Grail episode.
So close to a Meaning of Life episode only .75 away.
I think it's going to get there in the one of these next two
episodes, but that puts the series average at a 32.7, which
means it continues to be, I'd watch it again.
So thanks for listening everybody.
If you'd like to see a list of our episodes, series rankings,
you can do that on our website, therankpodcast.com.
(09:11):
Remember to subscribe, review and comment.
And please consider supporting us on our Patreon site at
patreon.com/the Rank Podcast where you can get access to all
the archived episodes. But I will leave you with this.
You know, I've always liked the Golden Globes because unlike the
Oscars and the Emmys, it gives out trophies that seem to really
appreciate my physique. Huh.
(09:31):
Because I'm round like a Globe self deprecating joke.
Is that what that was? That's the joke.
(09:53):
Adam actually shared a photo. Take three.
He actually cap and I can't talk.
All of the people receiving recognition are making a ton of
money too. Usually anyway.
I mean, Zoe basically says that at one point in the episode.
She says I'm already rich, I'm already famous.
Awards are all we have. And it goes to show that no
matter how much money or fame you amass, human nature
seemingly always wants more. Kind of greedy.
(00:38):
Hello and welcome back to another episode of The Rank.
I'm John and today we're going to be ranking another episode of
the studio. The premise of this whole thing
is to figure out what sitcom is the best of all time by going
through every episode and ranking them and averaging them
out to figure out which one is the best overall.
Now, if you're enjoying these episodes or if you're just a fan
of the studio and you enjoy consuming content about it,
(01:00):
please subscribe and or follow like the episodes comment,
e-mail us emails at the bottom. Please also consider becoming a
patron on our Patreon side of Patreon dot com slash The Rank
podcast. Now, today we're ranking the 8th
episode of the first season of the studio titled The Golden
Globes. It was written by Alex Gregory
and directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
And since this is the new series, I avoid spoilers for it.
(01:22):
I know it's been out for about acouple months at this point, but
still want to give people a chance to see it.
Let's get into it, starting withThe Potent Notables.
So we get a bunch of cameos in this, as we typically do.
One of which is Adam Scott, who claims that he slept on Sal
Saperstein's couch. Well, in fact, Adam Scott indeed
crashed on Ike's couch, Ike Barinholtz's couch in 2001.
(01:43):
Adam actually shared a photo on his Instagram account of him and
Ike Barinholtz on said couch. He actually captioned it.
Me and Sal circa 2001. That's cute stuff.
So let's talk about another cameo, Zoe Kravitz's camera.
Now, she said she was playing a quote, more psychotic version of
herself. She also claimed that she's a
big fan of Rogan and Goldberg and that she was excited to take
(02:05):
the meeting about being in the show.
Quote. I hadn't read anything and I
also didn't don't even really know how many guest spots they
were planning on having and who they were going to get.
It was just really about loving the thing they were wanting to
explore in terms of filmmaking in the industry and where we're
at right now. And I thought it was really
thought provoking. End Quote.
And about the character though, she said, I would like to
believe that I'm not this personthat like desperately wants an
(02:27):
award. But there is this interesting
thing where obviously if you're campaigning for an award, in
order to even kind of be nominated, you do have to
participate a certain amount, which means it's something that
you want, which is OK, OK. But it's funny how people do
pretend like they don't care at all when you when you do have to
care a certain amount and even be considered.
So I think that kind of humble game that we like to play, of
(02:48):
course, there's elements of all of us that want to win, that
want to be the best. And so while I do think I was
channeling hopefully a person that is a little bit more
psychotic than I am, I do think that we all have parts of us
that do want to win and are embarrassed to let that part be
seen. And I thought it was a cool
thing to really play both sides of that and cool.
I thought that was a pretty coolquote from Zoe.
(03:09):
But those are the poet notables.Let's go to the episode overview
the story of this one. Well, the story is Matt Remick
is still pathetic. The entire episode is about
Matt's desire to be thanked in an acceptance speech, especially
since he has to see Ted Sarandos, who's the head of
Netflix, get thanked over and over again by other winners.
The show posits that the only recognition that studio heads
get is whether they get a thank you at an award show.
(03:30):
It feels a little self indulgent.
I mean, they don't say how much money Matt makes, but it's
enough to afford a mansion and multiple old expensive cars.
Kind of feels like you're being paid enough to not worry about
them. Although as I say that, all of
the people receiving recognitionare making a ton of money too.
Usually anyway. I mean, Zoe basically says that
at one point in the episode. She says I'm already rich, I'm
(03:53):
already famous. Awards are all we have.
And it goes to show that no matter how much money or fame
you amass, human nature seemingly always wants more.
Kind of greedy. Matt's neediness feels pretty
unbecoming of a studio head, andI find it hard to believe that
he would have gotten that job based on the way he acts.
That being said, it makes for a fun episode to watch him squirm
(04:14):
and you do end up feeling bad for him.
Actually. The highlight though is Sal.
He really gets his moment in this episode.
And Paddy's back, so it's alwaysgood to have Catherine O'Hara
stealing scenes. No quit in this episode.
So this episode is sending up award season.
We're taking a look at the behind the scenes of the Golden
Globes. It's interesting though.
They're talking about the Hollywood, Hollywood Foreign
Press because they don't own theGlobes anymore.
(04:34):
Makes me sort of wonder when this is supposed to be taking
place, because up until those lines where they mention the
Hollywood Foreign Press, I assumed it was like an alternate
version of now, like present moment.
Maybe it's a few years ago, I don't know.
Anyway, we see how the studio heads want recognition, how it
matters where you get seated, how the artists say they don't
want to win, but they really do.Going so far as to promote
(04:55):
yourself and you're moving to the judges for weeks and months
beforehand. It sort of establishes the
seeming hypocrisy of it, but it also shows that while they may
all feel disingenuous, there is an authenticity to the feelings
and excitement. I was surprised by how much I
was empathizing with Matt by theend of the episode.
You start out feeling kind of annoyed by this petulance and
neediness, but then you can't help but feel for him.
(05:16):
Like, is it so hard to just thank him?
What we need to talk about though is how they pulled out
all the stops and getting cameosfor this episode.
It's a pretty impressive list. They even chose people to win
awards that felt we had Lucia ona yellow All Downs, Quinta
Brunson, Aaron Moriarty, AnthonyStarr, Ted Sarandos, Gene Smart,
Rami Youssef, Adam Scott, Zoe Kravitz, Zack Snyder and Aaron
(05:38):
Sorkin. And I think I might have missed
a couple. I mean, and that's a lot.
And on top of all that, Rhea Pearlman voices Matt's mom.
So if you like the show just forthe cameos, this episode was
probably the peak. Well, let's see if the cameos
helped with the ranking. A wank.
So the rank is where I rank the episode based on five category,
Story, acting, dialogue, episodecoherence, and character
(06:01):
relatability. The ranking on a scale of one to
five, one being the worst, five being the best.
And then we have a laugh counterwhere I tally up the amount of
times that the episode made me laugh out loud.
One point per laugh out loud gets added to the score.
The first category is story, andI give story a 4 1/2.
It's a really good story, basically the inside of an award
show. They tend to make the stories
really tight for this show, and I usually love them for it.
(06:22):
I did find myself wishing that we could have shown more of the
politicking leading up to this though, the schmoozing and stuff
that has to be done to like to get these awards.
I think that they mention it, but they don't like show it.
I would have liked to have seen it.
I also felt like the premise wasa little shallow.
You know, I'm not complaining, I'm just, I'm just explaining
why I didn't give it a fuck. It's really good.
So the next category is acting, which I give a 4.75.
(06:42):
The acting continues to be excellent though.
Seth Rogen has really become a versatile actor.
It seems just pretty cool. And there's a depth to Matt
Remick that you might not necessarily expect going into
this. The same depth is missing a
little bit from Sal Saperstein, which is why this isn't A5.
It's almost like Seth Rogen is has become such a good Hector.
It almost shows that Ike Barinholtz isn't up to the same
(07:06):
level. And I'm not bashing Ike
Barinholtz because I think he's really funny and he's great in
this, but it does feel like SethRogen is just that much higher
above him in terms of acting. Anyway, let's go to dialogue,
which is the next category. I gave that A5 and here it
finally is. So if you've been watching all
the studio episodes that that all the rankings we've done,
(07:26):
you've known that I haven't given A5 for dialogue because I
kept being like budget doesn't make me laugh enough.
But this is my first five for dialogue.
Now, the previous week I did give it a give it a 4.85.
So it was like really close and I was saying if it just could
get me a few more laughs, it would be there while the laughs
arrive this week, Still not crazy high, but definitely
higher high enough that it's time to say that the dialogue is
(07:47):
really incredibly well done and well timed.
So now we go on to episode coherence, which I also gave A5.
Making a tight, shallow story means you don't need much to
have great coherence. Even so, that doesn't detract
from the fact that they nailed it as they so often do.
They really just don't have wasted moments here.
Everything is a build and most everything is referenced later.
It's just a it's a really well developed show.
(08:09):
Let's go to the last category, which is character relatability,
which I also I gave A5. At first I thought I wasn't
going to be able to relate with Matt, but they brought me
around. Sal doesn't have to express much
but joy in this episode, but whocan't relate to joy, right?
Honestly, if you can't, then that's kind of sad.
I can also appreciate the tightrope that Zoe has to walk.
The want the award, but not showthat you want it.
(08:30):
It all worked for me. I thought it was really good.
That brings us to the laugh counter and I think, you know
it's going to be higher than it usually is for the studio.
As I mentioned before, because you were 5 to dialogue, it was
15, which is not crazy high, butthat's pretty high.
It's higher than it's been and it's definitely going to help
the ranking of the episode. So the total for this episode is
(08:50):
a 39.25, which makes it a Holy Grail episode.
So close to a Meaning of Life episode only .75 away.
I think it's going to get there in the one of these next two
episodes, but that puts the series average at a 32.7, which
means it continues to be, I'd watch it again.
So thanks for listening everybody.
If you'd like to see a list of our episodes, series rankings,
you can do that on our website, therankpodcast.com.
(09:11):
Remember to subscribe, review and comment.
And please consider supporting us on our Patreon site at
patreon.com/the Rank Podcast where you can get access to all
the archived episodes. But I will leave you with this.
You know, I've always liked the Golden Globes because unlike the
Oscars and the Emmys, it gives out trophies that seem to really
appreciate my physique. Huh.
(09:31):
Because I'm round like a Globe self deprecating joke.
Is that what that was? That's the joke.
(09:53):
Adam actually shared a photo. Take three.
He actually cap and I can't talk.
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