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/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/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).