The Morning Show: I’m Hooked
Found a new immensely entertaining show with somewhat good acting and writing.
I’m loving Jennifer Anniston in this. Steve Carrell is brilliant, and Reese is just the perfect balance of comedic camp and dramedy. DL, how am I just now discovering this.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 18 | July 2, 2023 9:24 PM
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I don't know but my guess is it was your assignment from Apple TV.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 22, 2023 12:14 AM
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This show is so fkin. I’m on episode 4 now. Best show since Mad Men.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 22, 2023 11:29 PM
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I for the life of me cannot figure out the relationship between Jen and her husband. But this is riveting television. Billy Cudruft is so sexy as a young looking old person and has this neurotic energy. It’s so fkin compelling. Fuck the SAG awards, I’m binge watching the 2nd half of the first season.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 27, 2023 2:28 AM
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The season one finale was so overwrought that I couldn’t tell if it had achieved some sort of new camp: painfully earnest progressivism meets martyrdom with faux-feminist stilted outrage as a closer.
It’s a hollow, bloated, misguided mess of a show.
I couldn’t bring myself to look at season two.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 27, 2023 2:42 AM
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Season 2 will confirm all suspicions that Steve Carell called his agents and said, "I don't care what you have to do. I don't care if I have to give all the money back. I don't care if I have to pay THEM. Just get me the fuck off this trainwreck."
by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 27, 2023 3:01 AM
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R5 does season 2 go off the rails? Season 1 is brilliant. Please no spoilers.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 27, 2023 3:48 PM
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I loved season 1, liked season two enough, not sure if I finished season three. Same with Succession, though.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 27, 2023 4:54 PM
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You couldn’t pay me enough to watch these two old cunts.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 27, 2023 4:57 PM
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I liked it but honestly can’t remember how the last season wrapped up. Has it been renewed or is that it?
by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 27, 2023 5:05 PM
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I loved Season One. Binge watched it a second time immediately after finishing it the first time.
Season Two has its moments, but definitely lacks the brilliance of Season One.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 27, 2023 5:15 PM
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Thanks, OP! Your post actually inspired me to do an Apple TV trial; the show is a lot of fun.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 28, 2023 5:05 PM
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Liked the first season a lot.
The second season is pretty much garbage and keeps getting worse as it goes along. No spoilers, but IMO the ruin the Crudup character.
Despite what a previous poster said, there have only been two seasons so far.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 28, 2023 5:10 PM
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I loved it at the beginning, but then it was just constant high drama and I gave up.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 28, 2023 5:20 PM
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The fact that both female lead characters have traditional boy names bugs the shit out of me for some reason. They couldn’t be “Elizabeth” and “Lisa” because that’s just too “network TV” and this is APPLE TV so the characters have to have “cool” names: “”Alex” and “Jackson.”
Ugh
by Anonymous | reply 14 | February 28, 2023 5:39 PM
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R14 How old are you. No shade, just curious.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | February 28, 2023 6:57 PM
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I just saw the Season Two finale. Alex Levy's Covid streaming show is mind-numbingly awful. All I can compare it to is the second act of "Springtime for Hitler" in the original Mel Brooks movie. My friend who watched it with me said, "Jennifer Aniston must be really stupid if she didn't insist on a rewrite. Or maybe she did and that was the result."
Not a persuasive argument for a writer's strike. Whatever they got paid for this, it was too much.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 2, 2023 8:17 PM
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I read that they strong-armed Jennifer into showing her breasts to win the college boy viewership
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 2, 2023 8:41 PM
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Season 1 was very entertaining, but man was season 2 a messy slog of nonsense. So bad it left a bad impression of the whole show.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 2, 2023 9:24 PM
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