He is playing Eric, Bradley's new co-host, who came in after Alex quit in the spring. Help is on the way, because once we are affixed to time and space, we cut to a blonde Bradley - that is to say, a blonde Reese Witherspoon - on The Morning Show singing "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" with Hasan Minhaj, who it takes a minute to understand is not playing himself. We are not at the eight-minute mark yet!īUT WAIT. So if you're keeping up, it's already been early 2019, then it was March 2020, and now it's New Year's Eve 2019. Then we move back "three months earlier," to New Year's Eve, where we begin this season proper. Then you get the credits (which remain excellent), and then there's a sequence in which "Return To Me" plays while a camera flies through the COVID-emptied streets of New York in March 2020.
But now, it seems like they've retconned that season's events to happen much earlier in the year, in order to have COVID strike when it's been many months since Alex quit. ("You're a dead man," says disgraced network boss Fred "Angela Chase's father from My So-Called Life" Micklen to Cory, to which Cory flatly responds, "Said the corpse.")Ī Memo From The Department Of Calendar Pedantry: It appeared during Season 1 that it was taking place in late 2019, given that TMS was covering the 2019 California wildfires. This sequence goes about the way you would expect, in that Alex's team is frantic to protect her and The Suits are furious. The season-two premiere opens with a couple of scenes showing the immediate aftermath of Alex and Bradley's big rebellion, which the show now seems to place sometime in early 2019. They are the story of how a huge, expensive project that came pre-loaded with publicity and talent and money and a current-events hook tries to move forward after nearly two years away.
These episodes are a story in themselves. This is why I wanted to follow this show through this season - not because it's so good, and not because it's so loved, and not because I intend to drill down into its approximately four million subplots to make sense of every one. Television 'From Book To Script To Screen,' Reese Witherspoon Is Making Roles For Women The uneven season ended when Alex (Aniston) and Bradley (Witherspoon) blew the lid off of a culture of cover-ups at UBA, called out their big bosses on air with the help of Cory and show executive producer Chip (Mark Duplass), and. Other parts, like the plentiful scenes in which Mitch (Carell) felt sorry for himself, did not. (And by "the show," I mean The Morning Show, not the show-within-the-show also called The Morning Show, which we shall call TMS here so we don't all lose our collective bearings.) Some elements, like Billy Crudup's gleefully weaselly executive Cory, worked. Let's step back: The first season, which aired a decade or so ago in late 2019, was the prestige drama project that Apple wanted to use to launch its streaming service: Big names! Current events! Finger on the pulse! Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston played a newbie and a veteran morning show host, respectively, who are thrown together after Aniston's former on-air partner, played by Steve Carell, is fired following a sexual harassment scandal.īut a funny thing happened on the way to acclaim: The show was of decidedly middling quality.
It takes the second season of Apple TV+'s The Morning Show seven-and-a-half minutes to get real sweaty. Bradley (Reese Witherspoon) has a new look as the second season of The Morning Show kicks off.
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