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When Apple TV Plus launched in November of 2019, the primary feather in its cap was The Morning Show. The drama series produced by and starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon was the first original series from a company new to the content game and throwing tons of money to grab our attention. The positive is that The Morning Show, from creator Kerry Ehrin and Jay Carson, turned out to be a...
This post contains spoilers for The Morning Show. Check out our last review here. The second season of The Morning Show began with the portent of COVID-19 and wraps up in mid-March of 2020, when American culture went haywire. Is there an enjoyable way to capture this period? Surely, but instead The Morning Show’s second season featured a lot of self-interested ninnies flailing abo...
This post contains spoilers for The Morning Show. Check out our last review here. Well, it was inevitable. The season-long arc of The Morning Show, aside from slowly documenting the loss in sanity among anyone who watches it (hello!), has been surrounding the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The pandemic has been gradually creeping up on the self-involved ninnies ...
This post contains spoilers for The Morning Show. Check out our last review here. Is Mitch Kessler actually, for-real dead? That’s a key question that you would think last week’s episode of The Morning Show answered, seeing as it climaxed with Mitch’s car literally sailing off a cliff because he chose not to steer around a swerving car in the middle of Italy. But see...
This post contains spoilers for The Morning Show. Check out our last review here. Putting it simply, there are times when The Morning Show is face-meltingly stupid in some of its creative decisions. That’s the line that I’m drawing for “La Amara Vita,” an episode that is arguably going to be very important in the context of the show’s second season, but...
This post contains spoilers for The Morning Show. Check out our last review here. What is The Morning Show’s connection to the real world? Yes, I’m starting today’s recap of “A Private Person,” the sixth episode of the Apple TV Plus prestige drama’s second season with a nice and heady question. I can’t help but wondering, because this show...
This post contains spoilers for The Morning Show. Check out our last review here. There is a danger in a show being so firmly committed to representing itself as a time capsule. The Morning Show, in its second season, is making a lot of mistakes, many of them truly unforced errors, but that time-capsule quality may be the worst of all. As we now discuss the fifth episode of the season, “Gho...
I said in last week’s review of The Morning Show that Daniel (Desean K. Terry), one of the many people working for the fictional UBA network desperate to stake a personal claim and rise in power, was quickly becoming the smartest person in the room. I said that because Daniel appears to be the only person within the show who’s shrewd enough to see the severity of the COVID-19 virus e...
Somehow, it took me until the third episode of the second season of The Morning Show to fully understand what is going on with this prestige drama from Apple TV Plus. Oh, sure, from the outside in, “what is going on” is pretty easily summarized: it’s a behind-the-scenes look at a nationally televised morning show from the perspective of its anchors, producers and network execu...
The fate of the universe is on the line in The Morning Show season two, according to Billy Crudup’s Cory Ellison. That might be a bit hyperbole, but the official season two trailer for the Apple TV Plus original series certainly teases a season full of juicy storylines fans will be able to sink their teeth into when the show returns on Sept. 17. The Morning Show, Apple TV Plus’ award...
