


These made-up happy endings, which include the famously closeted Hudson’s decision to come out and openly date another man, and Wong’s Oscar win, shouldn’t come as a surprise, given that “Hollywood” was heavily promoted as Murphy and co-creator Ian Brennan’s rewrite of 1940s Hollywood.Īnd yet those joyful moments do surprise us, because the level of revisionist history within the show’s finale brings us to fairytale conclusions that are hard to accept - not just for viewers, but for the people who wrote them.
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“And they all lived happily ever after” is a pretty fair assessment of the conclusion to Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix limited series “Hollywood.” And that includes the fictional versions of real-life Tinseltown residents like heartthrob movie star Rock Hudson and Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong, who were depicted in the seven-part show. (Warning: This post contains spoilers for Netflix’s “Hollywood” through the finale.)
