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The Last Tycoon - Season 1
The series centers on Stahr, Hollywood’s first wunderkind studio executive in the 1930s as he climbs to the height of power pitting him against his mentor and current head of the studio Pat Brady.
18 April 1958, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1956, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
12 July 1954, Berkeley, California, USA
1 January 1959, California, USA
28 June 1946, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3 September 1981, USA
20 September 1964, Vidor, Texas, USA
July 26, 2017
Lights. Cameras. Cue the cliches.
July 27, 2017
The new series has smartly reimagined Fitzgerald's story without ridding it of the author's hand.
July 27, 2017
Tycoon manages to capture the wistful tone Fitzgerald so often employed, while also being a breezy binge-watch.
July 27, 2017
Admirable care went into the costumes and settings; the script, not so much. There is quite a bit of awkward, didactic dialogue here. Nuance, apparently, had not yet been invented in the 1930s.
July 26, 2017
The show looks beautiful enough and has been so well-cast that those qualities can sometimes be enough when you're looking for a streaming option on a hot summer weekend.
July 27, 2017
While most of the time, it seems to be aiming for semi-historically accurate realism, it's also steeped in enough fantasy to make it hard to know how to engage with it, or even whether to trust it.
July 27, 2017
Quirks aside, The Last Tycoon brings out the best in Fitzgerald's work. The inner turmoil of Fitzgerald's genius mixed with Hollywood glamor and intrigue make for a feast for the eyes and the mind.
July 27, 2017
The consistently ineffective mix of real and fictional characters highlights how poorly the series captures such a fascinating world.
July 27, 2017
The Last Tycoon is so sumptuous that it's easy to overlook how pedestrian the story often is. That's not immediately apparent because what's onscreen is stunning.
July 27, 2017
Melodrama has its pleasures, and some viewers will doubtless happily be caught in the stories' myriad threads. And some performances win out over the material.