‘The Morning Show’ Season 2 Is Addicted to the Plot Twist: TV Review

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The first season of “The Morning Show” ended in an explosion; the new one begins, as the experienced TV viewer might expect, with characters picking up the pieces. But that’s about the only thing t…

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’s Bradley Jackson turned on their bosses and excoriated them on-air, it felt earned. More and more, though, a series with too much story seems to have lost the plot.

The Alex-Bradley rivalry remains among the show’s most carefully drawn elements, which is a tricky and unfortunate thing. Crudup’s 2020 Emmy win prompted the uncomfortable realization that a show about two women taking on systemic forces had, in its first 10 episodes, put more verve into writing the systemic forces than those struggling against them.

Meanwhile, Alex takes her shot at a comeback, but due to unresolved feelings about Mitch, soon finds herself torching her career for a second time, eventually going missing from the set. Alex’s decisions, we’re informed, come from a place of grief and anxiety. But the diffidence in writing the Mitch character make it feel implausible that he’s the center of anyone’s emotional life.

Perhaps the volatility of “The Morning Show’s” second season is intended to rhyme with its subject matter. In the time period covered, news itself came to feel as though it was designed by an overcaffeinated writers’ room. And those who recall the first season’s incorporation of real-world events will not be stunned that COVID is indeed a story point, and that “The Morning Show” documents the months leading up to one of the biggest news stories of Alex and Bradley’s careers.

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