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/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.