To many the word Hollywood evokes glamour and dreams of stardom. Perhaps no time in history was that more true than the late 1940s. But the city that birthed silent movies and talkies also had a seedy underbelly. Prostitution rings. Abusive agents, casting directors and motion picture moguls. Mob rackets. Netflix’s new original, Hollywood, which debuted last Friday takes the dirtiest secrets, debauchery and gossip of the era and makes it more than the backdrop in a revisionist history. In many ways, it becomes a primary driver of the storyline in a vulgar, sex-saturated rewrite of...