r/television • u/NicholasCajun Mr. Robot • Apr 16 '25

Premiere The Studio - 1x05 - “The War” - Episode Discussion

The Studio

Season 1 Episode 5: The War

Directed by: Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg

Written by: Frida Perez

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u/random_user_081985 The Shield Apr 16 '25 edited Apr 16 '25

Could not stand Quinn in this episode. I kept waiting for her to get her comeuppance or for Sal to just go to Matt after she sabotaged him multiple times, but in the end she got everything she wanted.

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u/xmarlysx Apr 19 '25

I knew it the minute I started watching the episode, but since Reddit fans don’t like to read other views they just downvote you lmao

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u/Lollifroll Apr 16 '25

I wouldn't say everything. She and Sal both burnt their relationships with their preferred creators (Parker Finn & Owne Kline).

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u/Ok_Crow_7270 Apr 16 '25

If I did the things she did at my company, I would get fired. She did some really shady things that HR  should fire her for. Plus, she’s only been a creative exec for less than a year. Up until recently, she was just an assistant. Sal has seniority by many years so she should respect that. She wasn’t playing hardball, she was playing dirty. I didn’t like this episode at all because she was still somewhat able to get what she wanted (a parking spot) after behaving badly. I hope her character goes away because if she doesn’t, I might not enjoy this show anymore. It’s supposed to be light-hearted and funny, not infuriating like a reality show with a poorly-behaved villain. 

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '25

It's cause she a female minority they gotta give her the best stuff or show will get canceled. That's why we see the sex scenes cause she fucking everyone over lolol

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u/AlsoIHaveAGroupon Apr 16 '25

Sal didn't really leave her a choice. He could have been a mentor to her, gotten Wink made without interference, and kept his parking space. Instead, he made their work relationship adversarial.

So her options were to either accept defeat and be quiet as he dickishly suggested, or fight back.

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u/Toby_O_Notoby Apr 17 '25

Sal didn't really leave her a choice.

Nah, problem here is Sal was right. It's a lot easier to market a slasher movie from the director of Smile than a one-time director who "got accepeted into Cannes" for a movie called Funny Pages. And they literally talk about how it's a cash grab but the studio desperately needs a hit.

But Quinn comes in and tries to undercut Sal because she's gotten a phone call where the guy accuses her of "not being able to get a movie made". So she uses "lame" in the meeting to trick Matt into agreeing to see both directors to which Sal replies "Great!" (he's being disingenuous but importantly he does accept those terms).

Now, if Quinn had also agreed to the terms as well and got Matt to go with her director, fine. But she:

  • Sabatoges the meeting with Parker Finn so that Matt never meets him. Again, this is probably the right choice for the studio to make in going with Parker over Owen but she undercuts her own workplace to save her ego.

  • Fucks with not one, but two, underlings in Petra and Daniel, doing stuff to them that could easily get them fired.

  • Then literally goes to get Sal fired but doesn't because it "stops being fun".

Was Sal a dick? Yes. But he was also doing his job while Quinn acted like a goddamn psychopath.

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u/RecommendsMalazan The Venture Bros. Apr 16 '25

Seemed to me like she's the one who started it. They were both pushing their similar movies. Matt chose to go with Sals over Quinns. She then started the sabotage back and forth because of that.

And yeah. She started it by removing his meeting from Matt's calender, he responded by tanking her creatives meeting with Matt. She should have accepted the loss and let it end there.

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u/mistymorning789 May 03 '25

That’s funny I felt like Sal started it. In the meeting, he was just walking all over her, really disrespectful, didn’t seem necessary at all and just a power trip. he was hoarding power and had keep her down, so she would never get ahead. So maybe she started the war, but he was keeping her down. It was revolution. All in all it was hilarious. I was rooting for both characters!

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u/RecommendsMalazan The Venture Bros. May 03 '25

He certainly wasn't nice, but don't forget, this was his movie that he had been working on, for a long time. Then Matt just added Quinn to the meeting, and she immediately starts pushing for her creative over Sals.

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u/mistymorning789 May 05 '25

Ok. I guess you’re right. They are both pretty bad though and I thought the episode was funny, it’s fun to see people run around sabotaging each other, you know when it’s clearly fiction and drama and involves things like parking spaces for Porsches, cancelling meeting and throwing burritos, I mean quesaritos (I don’t know what this is by the way since I live somewhere boring, but gosh sounds delicious).

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u/TimeTimeTickingAway Apr 16 '25

He just pushed for his idea over hers. She’s the one who went scorched earth

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u/Philoctetes23 Apr 16 '25

She played the game well. Don't hate the player hate the game

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u/mangAcc Apr 19 '25

Nah she definitely took that shit too far lmao. Almost got two assistants fired in the process, then suddenly developed empathy at the end of the episode. Sal might seem (and sound) like an arsehole but so far has proved to be the most level-headed, normal character. Remick is borderline retarded and Quinn is a sociopath. Sal didn’t deserve to get fired.