Hollywood (2020)TV series

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“Welcome to the Jungle. Watch it bring you to your knees.”

It is fashionable to the point of cliché to liken someone’s downfall to Greek tragedy. But in the case of Baked Alaska and his Los Angeles adventures, it would not be appropriate to compare him to the classics. For Baked Alaska’s soon-to-be-legendary demise follows a different, more modern, but distinctly American mythos of “going Hollywood.”

Stories of young men and women leaving their humdrum life in Nowheresville USA to seek out fame and fortune under the bright lights of the Big City are America’s one great contribution to the Fairy Tale genre. After all, the Big City is where “any shopgirl can be a top girl.” The place “where any office...