The Morning Show [Apple]

thesultan wrote: »

Thought the ending was great. Will there be a second series?

The Black Oil wrote: »

Finally decided to take a look at the first episode.

I found it pretty good at the human level, and in the mechanics of broadcasting, though in reality the latter's fairly minimum, with next to no buttons pressed or actual dials adjusted. There is some stuff about 'this is what America wants', etc, that's part social commentary, part 'Hey, we're the news!' Didn't find it too showy or obsessively self-regarding there which was welcome. That said, with Apple still find its feet here, I doubt it'll take any big swings. It is fairly predictable, but I don't put that as a complaint and near the end we have just what Hollywood loves, a confrontation in the rain. Nor did it seem to have much pilot-itis going on and found it well paced. Anniston does most of the heavy lifting in the opener, though it's pretty clever in that when Witherspoon and her finally have an in studio tête-à-tête, it's the latter who manages to shift the microscope.

partyjungle wrote: »

I wasn't expecting much so it's mildly entertaining. I find the #metoo stuff to be quite interesting. I haven't seen any other program to try and tackle it. It feels a bit repetitive with letting the loose cannon (Witherspoon) to go on live TV just to go off script again. I find it hard to believe that morning TV is this important or holds this much power, or else I'm oblivious to it. I can't help but think of Piers Morgan and Richard and Judy.

Frankly, I don't this get either. I can only assume these shows have some sort of historic watercooler effect or are in the background in the kitchen whilst half the US population are shooing their kids out the door to school.

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Season 2 starts September 17th.

Epic!

The first season was top notch got better and better as it went along

Can't wait but it's a shame only one episode a week :(

why are they playing it like Laura wouldn't already know that Alex didn't want to be stuck on the morning show?

Just watched the episode where Hannah sleeping with Mitch is shown from Hannah's side, not like Mitch mentioning earlier that she slept with him to improve her career. Thought it was an excellent episode.

Really enjoying the show, getting better and better as it goes on

I really like the show - I keep wanting to shout at Jennifer Aniston to tell her stop freaking out all the time :)

I expected Carrell’s character to be portrayed as nasty remorseless villain and am very surrounded that they put more thought into him than that.

The main reason I am posting though is ask why the Irish lad is a part the main cast? I assumed from the way he behaved when he first meets Alex was that they were hinting that the two would have a relationship that would get her into trouble but the lad just faded away and disappeared.

one of the behind the scenes segments mention that the season got rewritten to incorporate the Covid outbreak - I wonder if the jettisoned his part in the season to make more room for the pandemic ?

Stephen Fry has joined the cast for season 3 for a major recurring role.

Always great to see Stephen pop up on US shows.