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'The Morning Show' Producers on Negative Reviews: 'There Were a Lot of Apple Haters and Wanting Apple to Fail'
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Seems silly. That's like saying the people who rated it highly only did so because they are apple fanboys.
76 critics and 253 audience ratings? Apple would be better off if there were tens of thousands that hated it at this point. No passion there. A few hundred mean nothing.
I couldn’t get pass first episode of it. Same for See and Dickinson. I’ll keep checking out different shows. Eventually Apple will have a hit.
I couldn’t get pass first episode of it. Same for See and Dickinson. I’ll keep checking out different shows. Eventually Apple will have a hit.
After spending a lot of time on forums I definitely agree with the article. A lot of people just want to hate on apple. They just want this to fail for some reason. But the shows have been fantastic so far.
Oh they don't have a lot of content. Duh. A new streaming service from a company that has no content has to build it from the ground up. As a result it was the right move to give a free year of service for purchasing an apple product.
Doesn't matter that they don't have a lot as there's only so much time in the day to watch tv.
I can't keep up with all the shows they have now amongst all the other shows we watch. So a limited amount of content is just fine with me as so far all that content has been quality. They have a lot of shows coming and a lot of talent behind them.
Disney+ has the mandalorian. I've seen everything else they have over many decades and I own much of it too. So really they only have one show for me. I turn it on once a week and that's it.
I can go months without watching anything on amazon prime but what I have watched I've enjoyed. Doesn't matter that have a lot or a little if I'm only interested in a handful of shows.
Oh they don't have a lot of content. Duh. A new streaming service from a company that has no content has to build it from the ground up. As a result it was the right move to give a free year of service for purchasing an apple product.
Doesn't matter that they don't have a lot as there's only so much time in the day to watch tv.
I can't keep up with all the shows they have now amongst all the other shows we watch. So a limited amount of content is just fine with me as so far all that content has been quality. They have a lot of shows coming and a lot of talent behind them.
Disney+ has the mandalorian. I've seen everything else they have over many decades and I own much of it too. So really they only have one show for me. I turn it on once a week and that's it.
I can go months without watching anything on amazon prime but what I have watched I've enjoyed. Doesn't matter that have a lot or a little if I'm only interested in a handful of shows.
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Yes, Mitch had "consensual" sex with the women. He's pissed-off. If you believe this "more complex" angle is interesting to viewers used to watching other more interesting shows you likely don't watch too much TV.
the critics consider it constructive. But it’s not valid. The audience loves it. Therefore, the show is actually perfect.
I'm far from an apple hater, but the morning show flat out sucks. Someone should have gone over all the dialog to make it feel a bit natural.
Quite the opposite, I watch too much tv. Oh if you only knew. Most of which I find rather boring these days.
I think the show is great. Seems most people who have actually watched it think the same.
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Just like any show, there are some that don't like it. Not sure why those people don't just move on and find something they like better rather than bash it hatefully. I don't like all of the Apple's programming (i.e. this show isn't interesting to me at all, tbh) but I'm really enjoying "See" and right now it's worth my $5 a month (well, I got a free year, but yeah). I would guess Shyamalan's show will be decent, his past feature films have been good overall.
Apple TV+ won't fail. Apple has enough capital to buy whatever productions they need to get subscribers. Netflix is scrambling and has come up with "offline" mode to try to save themselves from Apple and Disney.
Apple TV+ won't fail. Apple has enough capital to buy whatever productions they need to get subscribers. Netflix is scrambling and has come up with "offline" mode to try to save themselves from Apple and Disney.
I lasted about 25 minutes into the first episode of The Morning Show. I found it rather bland and boring. The only thing I want to see worth my 1 yr free subscription is the Elephant movie, that looks cool. The rest isn't worth paying for.
Well I think Morning Show, See and All Humankind are great shows. Really love watching them. Would be better to have different releases for each show within the week, instead of Friday for all.
In my opinion these shows are a lot better than all these teenage Netflix shows. Unsubscribed from Netflix about 1 or 2 years ago and the shows aren't getting better there.
In my opinion these shows are a lot better than all these teenage Netflix shows. Unsubscribed from Netflix about 1 or 2 years ago and the shows aren't getting better there.
Similar to launching Apple Music on Android, the floodgates of Apple haters will refuse to actually see the content and use their reviews as attacks on Apple as a whole. Not surprising here.
How can you not like something and not watch it at the same time?
AppleTV+ is not new when it comes to TV production and writing. If the show is getting negative reviews, it's because it's worthy of them, not because of the platform. Other things in TV+ are getting good reviews.
I watched the first episode of "The Morning Show". It was difficult for me to get through it. It isn't that the acting is bad, I just didn't find the story compelling. I will watch at least a couple others and see what I think but based on that first episode, I didn't care for it.
I hate everything Google and don't care for anything Microsoft. I’ve been using Apple computers and devices since the early 1980s and would consider myself a fan of Apple in general terms. I’m not a fanboy though, and never will be as I will complain when Apple screws up, and they do screw up. "The Morning Show" is one of their major screw ups! I tried watching that worthless piece of garbage but couldn’t force myself to watch more than 30 horrible minutes. Apple proved that you cannot take three heavyweights in the acting community and automagically end up with a decent show. They took three comedy actors and wasted their talents by putting them into a f-bomb ladened, adult oriented soap opera that is so poorly written and so poorly filmed that it should win an Emmy for the biggest chunks blown for a show. Even a dog wouldn't eat this barf after they threw it up, and they will eat their own poop! It is terrible. The show's owners can blame everyone but themselves, but they are the true people to blame here. Apple usually does fairly good at hardware, but they know absolutely nothing about producing TV shows, and this show proves that beyond a question.
Apple is butting into a well established industry. I hate to sound like a cynic but I wonder how many of the professional reviews were influenced by the fact that other key players in the industry pay the bulk of the bills. User reviews seem to be considerably more favorable. I personally think the Morning Show is pretty good, at least thus far... Haven't really gotten into any other shows yet.
The show is solid. I enjoy it, many I know enjoy it. Is it TV changing Sopranos or Breaking Bad or GoT? No.
Critics tend to give a general idea of how any form of media is going to be received by the public. However, they are wrong sometimes. And its an average, a formula doesn't take into account peoples history with a particular character, story, franchise, subject etc...
As for people being critical of AppleTV+ in general note this time frame:
This isn't happening because always on watch display, 3rd lens on iPhones, bigger display laptops, more expensive AirPods, or new color cases driving (nothing wrong with any of that just not a reason for investment). The bullish price of Apple stock is due to one thing and one thing only: Services. And if the services were bad the stock would not have rallied 65+ points in the past year since services have expanded (Arcade, TV, News). Critics can wine and try to make themselves relevant, just as Hulu and Netflix put out huge flops Apple will too, but The Morning Show is not one of them.
Critics tend to give a general idea of how any form of media is going to be received by the public. However, they are wrong sometimes. And its an average, a formula doesn't take into account peoples history with a particular character, story, franchise, subject etc...
As for people being critical of AppleTV+ in general note this time frame:
This isn't happening because always on watch display, 3rd lens on iPhones, bigger display laptops, more expensive AirPods, or new color cases driving (nothing wrong with any of that just not a reason for investment). The bullish price of Apple stock is due to one thing and one thing only: Services. And if the services were bad the stock would not have rallied 65+ points in the past year since services have expanded (Arcade, TV, News). Critics can wine and try to make themselves relevant, just as Hulu and Netflix put out huge flops Apple will too, but The Morning Show is not one of them.
You seem to feel very strongly about the show. Please don't hold back. 😁
You talk as though the streaming video race is over. LOL, it has just begun. It would have been horrendously poor financial decision to buy Netflix. Most of the their content is just licensed content that is available to anyone, and much of the other licensed content is being taken back. Most of that content is seldom watched. It turns out that most of the streaming on Netflix is of a relatively few shows like the Office. You're also misreading Apple's goal, they don't want to be, and don't need to be just another streaming service. They will, by the end of this year be the largest streaming service in the world, just based on the free one year subscriptions they offer, and there will likely be tens of millions of paid subscriptions on top of that. But again, that's not Apple's play. They want to focus on high quality shows, and by the end of twelve months will already have 30 to 40 shows with more being added each month. Very soon, Apple alone will have more content than their typical customer can even watch.
Netflix is trapped financially as they can't raise prices enough to keep up with the rapidly escalating costs as they bid against Apple, Amazon, Disney, etc. etc., and they are a one trick pony compared to their competitors who can leverage their video streaming services to add value to their ecosystems, e.g, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Disney. No, Apple would have paid tens of billions of dollars for Netflix, when they are much better off simply taking much less money to develop and license their own original content.