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'The Morning Show' recap, Season 2, Episode 4: Why drag Neil Diamond into this?

Bradley and Laura are sitting in a tree, T-A-L-K-I-N-G. Alex doesn't want to moderate the debate, and even though Bradley and Daniel both desperately want to moderate it, Cory only wants her.
Bradley (Reese Witherspoon) has a lot on her mind.

Where we start: I don't know how Dave Grohl became the go-to Gamest Person In Show Business, but here's to you, Dave Grohl. Here's to you, Foo Fighters, playing Alex's comeback show.

Stella is feeling annoyed at how well Cory's "wall of blondes" strategy is going, but she can't deny that the audience loves it, which I cannot stop finding completely implausible, since they saw these women together for three weeks almost a year ago.

If you liked Poor Mitch sitting around cancelled in Italy, perhaps you'll like Poor Yanko, who's getting yelled at on Twitter for having referred to Punxatawney Phil as his "spirit animal" on Groundhog Day. Social media makes this a huge thing, he has to make a big on-air apology, and so forth. Not included in this story: Any real opportunity for anyone — ideally a Native American person, but I would have accepted — to actually explain why stuff like this actually bugs people. Mia speaks the words "cultural appropriation," but that's pretty bare-bones. If you must do this kind of story, I feel like you should at

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