As Disney buys the studio, the remaining media empire's balance of power shifts to NYC's cable news cash cow as TV creators and broadcast employees in L.A. feel increasingly marginalized.

This ain't your mother's costume drama as Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz preside over a royal spectacle of cunning ladies and dandied-up men with a lot to say about Trump-era power struggles: "We're disgusting and gorgeous and powerful and weak and filthy and brilliant."