Not only is the cast full of hot men – reason enough – but I wanted to see Murphy’s fictionalised and fanciful reimagining of the Hollywood story. Murphy’s fictionalised and fanciful reimagining of the Hollywood story. Murphy’s series is set in the Hollywood of the 1940s and mixes actual people with fictional characters and events. For example, Rock Hudson is in it, but the story in no way resembles the real career or life of Hudson. Instead, it imagines what his career might have been like if Hollywood had allowed him to express his homosexuality openly.
The story revolves around the struggle of a group of young artists (including Hudson) to make a major, studio-funded motion picture starring a black actress and depicting an interracial relationship.