The series is just plain awful. As a big Apple admirer, on the contrary I wanted to really like the show, but it is truly horrendous. While it is technically okay, the story, acting and editing is just horrible.
Review of episode one says it all:
https://www.tvore.com/?page=episode&id=23461
And I am so bored by the comments of showrunners who cannot accept that they simply failed artistically and come up with lame excuses such as people "wanting to" dislike the series because of the studio. Please, find me a single person on this planet who likes or dislikes movies or series based on the studio... What a bunch of BS. And the comment on "the people" loving it? Sure, I can find people hating The Godfather and loving The Room, that will not make them right. Please.
But on another note, while I think The Morning Show just sucks, I still believe Apple TV+ will, on the long run, blow away the competition. You cannot just start with a show that will have the same impact as Game of Thrones. Things take time.
Actually as far as reviews went, that was kind of lazy. I’m fine with people being critical of the show. I just think that review wasn’t one of the better efforts I’ve seen. They just kind of list off what they don’t like but don’t really explain why.
I think showing Mitch in the aftermath of his horrendous decisions is key to making a character we can become invested in.
Watching a man be a cheating rat who possibly was abusing his position of power would have sunk the character. That would just have injected too much baggage to make him sympathetic to anybody in this day and age.
Too many people would automatically cancel him and close their minds to what might be going on in his mind. If we were already seeing his lovely wife and children and have seen him actively betraying them, how could we find it in us to give him any kind of chance.
Instead, we see him through his talk show partner’s eyes, and how much he means to her. And we walk in on him suffering. He actually gets a chance to grab our attention in a way we wouldn’t if we came into his life before, as the reviewer suggested we should have.
There’s hearsay about what he did. So now we are left to wonder, how bad was it? How bad does he think it was? Why does he not see what was so bad about what he did?
And that is where the show takes over. We see the answers to these questions start to play out. We meet one of his victims. But then we see there’s questions about her character and motivations. How was she hurt? Was she really hurt? She’s a consenting adult, isn’t she? Or was there something in her environment that isn’t so clear, that played a part in making her see it as coercion, but Mitch could honestly and legitimately not see it that way. Could they both be right? Could they both be wrong?
You can kind of see this show isn’t going to make it easy when Bradley goes to interview the people over the coal protests. She points out there are impacts to the environment that are horrible. But the loss of jobs leave an impact, too. She wants the dialogue between both sides that is currently missing in our public discourse.
We’ve gotten used to a society where we take a position and demonize the opposite side. This show is going to examine counterproductive that is.
And at the same time it is going to call out the horrendous treatment of women, especially in entertainment/media and especially as they age.
I can see a lot of people already railing against the “political agenda” of this show. But it really isn’t that. It’s just showing something that has long been obvious and frustrating to women. We see men paired up romantically and as leading men and talk show partners to women 20 and even 30 years their junior.
But God forbid an aging woman be allowed to anchor a partnership of any kind with even a male peer. On the rare occasions it did happen in the past it was noteworthy.
I hope the fact Linda Hamilton was brought back in all her rugged aged beauty for the recent Terminator movie is a sign things are changing.
I find it interesting going forth to see how Jennifer Aniston’s character deals with her age in the job she has in the still male dominated environment she is in.
There are other characters who hold a lot of promise. Her producer, whose name escapes me at the moment, looks all kinds of haggard and beat to death caught between her and that shark played by Billy Crudup. He’s got the potential to become one of my favorite characters.
lol I make no secret how furious I am with Tim Cook for a lot of things. So I don’t want to like Apple right now. But I have to say I like what I’ve seen of Apple TV+ so far. It’s not the cluster cluck I was worried it could be. In my humble opinion of course.
