Photo: Karen Ballard The idea of communicating what it feels like to watch the second season of the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show is absurd on its face. Sure, a rote summary is technically accurate: It’s a show about the production of a major network’s morning news series, starring two anchors played by Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, and focusing largely on what happens after former anchor Mitch Kessler is forced out in a Matt Lauer–esque cloud of disgrace.
One element of the show’s first season that felt central to its outlook is that it is a show about news and politics that loves to squeeze itself right up against the biggest, most exciting stories it can find. In season one that was Me Too, and the Las Vegas shooting massacre, and wildfires in California. Season two’s obvious targets are COVID, the 2020 election, and Black Lives Matter.
It would be easier to ignore the politics of The Morning Show if The Morning Show ever let the subject drop, if it would just lean into its identity as a show about glossy jerks happily betraying one another in order to secure dominance. It could be about brutal battles behind the scenes of the chipper, brightly lit morning-show family, full stop. But the show can’t stop swerving into moments of high sentiment.
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