'The Morning Show' recap, Season 2, Episode 9: In memoriam
After a couple of weeks when we seesawed from a very bad episode to a very good episode, now we're comfortably back in the middle, where some things work and other things seem like they were written on Mars. Alex slinks back into UBA and then visits Mitch's memorial service, Bradley puts her brother in rehab and then interviews Maggie about the book, and Laura lets Alex have it for being such a jerk.
Bradley's family drama
As you'll remember, we left Bradley feeling pretty miserable about Hal (her brother) having shown up at the office, clearly under the influence and/or suffering mental health setbacks, making a scene. The next morning, Hal is willing to go to rehab on her dime. When she drops him off, she essentially says that she's cutting him off and doesn't want to hear from him when he gets out. She wishes him well and gives him some money, but as Laura suggested, she's drawing her boundary. He threatens to OD just to prove a point to her, which is pretty agonizing, but she sticks to her guns and drives off.
Later, her doorman brings an envelope of money up to her that someone dropped off. She immediately realizes that this means Hal did not stay in rehab. Uh-oh.
Alex returns to the office and breathes on everybody
Alex goes to UBA with her guy Doug (remember they got Will Arnett to come and be her guy even though heand the network will support her. But Alex says agreeing to come back was a mistake, and she will be giving the money back and exiting.
