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'Morning Show' review: Apple TV+ tosses an uncertain, half-baked #MeToo drama into its streaming service

Ripped with utter tonal uncertainty from a thicket of recent headlines, Twitter hashtags and predatory sex scandals, the first three hourlong episodes of the Apple TV+ web series "The Morning Show" (streaming Friday) are pretty depressing. And not, I think, in the way the show's makers were after.

The long-gestating project (two seasons have been ordered, at a reported cost of $250-$300 million) (!!) sets itself an ambitious and potentially tasty agenda. We're dealing with an "All About Eve" backstage drama flung into

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