Executive produced by Armando Iannucci and Sam Mendes, HBO's superhero satire 'The Franchise' is a cathartic but thin take on the MCU and its ilk.

It takes more than a village to make a movie; it's more like a small army. And in the case of "The Franchise," that army has a lot of faces you'll recognize. Streaming on Max and airing on HBO on Sundays,

The Franchise,' a new series from HBO premiering Sunday that stars Himesh Patel and Lolly Adefope, takes a comic look at the production of a second-tier superhero movie from a Marvel-like studio.