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More like hooey, in Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s colorful but cuckoo revisionist fantasy of a late-1940s dream factory. With clashing tones exposes the sexism, racism and homophobia of the period, then slaps on enough happy endings to give Walt Disney pause. Even a repulsive fact-based character like predatory closeted agent Henry Willson (Jim Parsons gone garish) softens up before the end of the story.
