"Few of the episodes-at least, of the eight that critics received in advance-are actually concerned with, or even set in, the eponymous breakfast news program. There are still a few big on-air moments, like the show's breaking news coverage of a potential plane crash, but for the most part The Morning Show has moved on from the behind-the-scenes politics of morning TV and the drama between its artificially sunny personalities."
"The Morning Show has always had the air of a plane that's being built mid-flight-a series trying to work out what it is and what it isn't in real time. Just weeks after it was greenlit in 2017 as a salacious drama about the " cutthroat world of morning TV," the industry was rocked when Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose were fired from NBC and CBS, respectively, for alleged sexual misconduct. Suddenly, the series was retooled into one primarily about the #MeToo movement."
The Morning Show's fourth season rarely unfolds on the titular breakfast program and instead broadens its focus to the media industry and corporate world. The series stages occasional on-air moments but primarily leaves behind behind-the-scenes morning-TV politics and sunny on-air personas. The season interrogates the implications of emerging technologies like A.I. for information and misinformation. The season questions whether placing women in leadership positions is sufficient to reform a deeply rooted white-collar patriarchy. The series has evolved through multiple retoolings since 2017, shifting from salacious morning-TV drama to a #MeToo-centered narrative and responding to the COVID pandemic.
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