'The Morning Show' Recap, Season 2, Episode 1: She's Blonde Again!
It takes the second season of Apple TV+'s The Morning Show seven-and-a-half minutes to get real sweaty.
Let's step back: The first season, which aired a decade or so ago in late 2019, was the prestige drama project that Apple wanted to use to launch its streaming service: Big names! Current events! Finger on the pulse! Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston played a newbie and a veteran morning show host, respectively, who are thrown together after Aniston's former on-air partner, played by Steve Carell, is fired following a sexual harassment scandal.
But a funny thing happened on the way to acclaim: The show was of decidedly middling quality. (And by "the show," I mean , not the show-within-the-show also called , which we shall call here so we don't all lose our collective bearings.) Some elements, like Billy Crudup's gleefully weaselly executive Cory, worked. Other parts, like the plentiful scenes in which Mitch (Carell) felt sorry for himself, did not. The uneven season ended when Alex
