There was a time when a prestige drama about sexual harassment starring Oscar nominee Steve Carell, Golden Globe winner Reese Witherspoon (coming off Big Little Lies, arguably one of the most successful projects of her career), and Jennifer Aniston (in her first leading TV role since Friends) would've been one of the biggest television events of the year. Yet, something about the rollout of AppleTV+ and the current saturation of streaming shows makes it seem like barely anyone is talking about the platform, which launches November 1, and its flagship drama The Morning Show - and after watching the first three episodes, it doesn't seem like they'll be missing much.
Making a show about the #MeToo movement is tough. It has to be nuanced, balanced, and thoughtful, especially since the fight to stop abuse in the workplace is far from over. Sadly, the first three episodes of The Morning Show approach the topic with all the tact of the Newsroom airplane scene when the reporters tell the pilot that Bin Laden is dead and (as you'll know if you saw the episode or just watched the clip) that isn't a compliment. Instead of taking notes from Aaron Sorkin's playbook, The Morning Show would've been better served following the example of HBO's most recent deconstruction of the media industry, Succession, which knows how to tell compelling stories about unrepentantly self-obsessed characters without glorifying their behavior.
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