A review by febyidrus
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

An effective exposé of the atrocious work culture that clearly pervades much of Hollywood's sets. The final part, which constitutes a call for change and potential steps to improve it, feels less effective though, possibly because she has so strongly laid out how the Hollywood machine crushes any attempt to address wrongs. It's eye opening and sobering to read about how some of your favourite shows were made while truly gross discriminations, injustices and cover ups were happening backstage. But Ryan doesn't go very much into this dissonance between the art we love and the arseholes who made it.