Reported to have cost as much as $15 million an episode , its cast is led by Jennifer Aniston and Carell — TV actors who became movie stars and are back on television because TV is now as good as movies — and Reese Witherspoon — who got famous in movies and moved to TV, producing, starring in and taking home an Emmy for HBO’s “Big Little Lies.”
Meanwhile, Witherspoon’s Bradley Jackson — a West Virginia news reporter whose righteous hot temper, captured on a stranger’s cellphone, has launched her into viral fame, and into the midst of a “Morning Show” power struggle — stumbles into a reluctant, wary partnership with Alex. It’s a little like “All About Eve” with a reverse double twist. Wary partners, of course, are the amino acids from which a third of television stories are built.
As the series goes on — I have watched it to the end now — Carell works to make Mitch human; there’s an interesting moment in the third episode, meant to draw a line between Mitch’s self-entitlement and something more perverse, that seems to indicate a possibility of growth, but basically, he’s toxic. It’s possibly a failing of “The Morning Show” that we never see what anyone liked about him in the first place — the man they thought they knew.
I'd rather just know exactly how many young employees Matt Lauer screwed at NBC circa '01 to '16. Like a montage video. There, I just saved your $44 million.
We thought we knew, this Emily Dickinson forges boldy ahead — never more so than ... By the end of its first episode, “For All Mankind” feels too weighty to achieve orbit, ...
No chance ever.
No thank you.
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