#the-morning-show

#the-morning-show

The episode was a series of Job-like trials for UBN CEO Stella: She betrayed Chris (Karen Pittman), she learned that her AI programs aren't ready for the Olympics, she attempted to broker a deal with a lame stand-up comic who ultimately turned her down, and then she vented about all that to the saddest option possible, the AI version of herself.

Sexual abuser and TV host Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) was constantly scheming to get back on the air before he finally drove off an Italian cliffside. His replacement, Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon), stumbled into the January 6 Capitol Hill insurrection and ran into her brother, then covered up evidence of his involvement. Tech billionaire Paul Marks's (Jon Hamm) spaceship, on which Bradley later travels to space, looks not unlike a dick, and he turns out to be a dick, which is a poetic coincidence.

In case it hasn't been obvious enough, The Morning Show makes clear in "The Revolution Will Be Televised" that the dynamic shared between the series and its audience is very much the audience going "this show is insane, what could be more batshit than this?" and The Morning Show going "hold my beer." And then it does something like have the Iranian government go after Alex Levy with deepfakes.

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.