Somehow The Morning Show just keeps going. Or maybe it’s that I just keep watching this train wreck.
Look, I’m not saying that stuff that happens here hasn’t happened in actual newsrooms, but even with the fiction of a series, a lot of what goes down in this show is absolutely ridiculous. Perhaps for me that has a lot to do with Jennifer Aniston’s character who is endlessly annoying and entitled. Maybe she is good at her core, but I wouldn’t mind seeing her exposed someday. But anyway, now that the network is in Alex Levy’s hands, she, along with Stella and newest board member Celine, are trying to dominate their coverage of the Olympics.
That means sending their own Olympian over to Paris, though Christine does find herself in some hot water from her past Olympics’ involvement. This also allows Stella to tackle AI without much success at all. Maybe AI was becomig a thing in 2024, but I certainly don’t remember it being quite such a hot topic as it is now. Mia, in an effort to boost her chances at becoming head of news, poaches Bradley to come back to TMS, even though she’s on house arrest with the FBI from her actions last season. She reluctantly accepts and almost immediately gets contacted to look into a story that got wiped from UBA five years ago. With Chip’s help, they manage to make smalls steps throughout the season that obviously culminate into something much bigger and involving many more players.
Alex pretty much spends the whole season trying to make herself look good at any cost, while Cory is desparately trying to succeed in Hollywood again. That brings him knocking back on UBA’s doorstep without much luck until he comes across some juicy blackmail against Stella. It ultimately forces her out, and I truly don’t think we will see her character again. Good, Greta Lee deserves better. In fact, it seemed like several main actors were maybe gonig to be making a permanent exit this season, but I give the writers some credit for creatively bringing them back in orbit to this cesspool. Boyd Holbrook and William Jackson Harper were not on my bingo card of actors for this season.
Nor was Marion Cotillard as the cold and calculating Celine. Spoilers here, but she ended up being way more powerful than I had any clue about for most of the season. She plays the bad guy so well that I can almost forgive them for pinning everything on a character we knew nothing about until this season but had apparently “been there the whole time.” Yeah, okay. She and her family are the richest of the rich, and it proves that money can pretty much buy anything. Yes, she gets exposed in the end, but it makes you think about how much stays covered up (cough, Epstein files much?). Even though they are still a few years in the past, I was impressed by how things were paralleled with current day events.
Sadly, this show has been renewed for another season that I must endure two years from now. For as much as it drives me crazy, the start power is so strong that I simply can’t turn away now. I’d like to see the final train crash someday.