No one in my life cares that this week’s The Morning Show opens with a bonkers musical number involving Yanko, backup dancers, stock footage of New York City and a metric ton of confetti… so thank goodness for you guys, because I MUST DISCUSS IT.
There are far more plot-propulsive beats in the hour, and we’ll get to those in a minute. But first, I need you to understand that Yanko the Weatherman does this very odd spoken-word performance while wiggling his hips to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”… while women in form-fitting black dresses shake it around him… and images of the Manhattan skyline are projected behind them… culminating in a tableau in which Yanko is down on one knee, ring box in hand, asking his girlfriend (wait, what?) Ariana to marry him. Did I mention this is a