'The Morning Show' Is Not Dumb Enough to Be This Irrelevant

'The Morning Show' Is Not Dumb Enough to Be This Irrelevant

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I miss the idiocy of season two of The Morning Show , back when Steve Carell was playing Matt Lauer, living somewhere in Europe, having an affair with a French woman who didn’t care, and driving to his death off a cliff while going out to buy a pack of cigarettes . I miss the lesbian affair between Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) and Laura Peterson (Julianna Margulies), the occasional appearance of Holland Taylor to chew some scenery, and the mess. All that mess !

The thing about The Morning Show is that it either needs to be a messy but entertaining soap opera or offer slightly tone-deaf commentary on America’s political and social landscape. I miss when it flexed its MeToo muscl