At points, it didn’t even feel like Bradley and Alex were characters on the same show, let alone part of the same storylines. I know that there is probably a behind the scenes reason for this, and it probably has to do with COVID protocols on The Morning Show set, but wow, the sheer lack of scenes between the two ostensible stars of the show this season is just so jarring. The Morning Show Season 2 – Photo Courtesy of Apple TV+ In the end, Alex acknowledges that everything - COVID, Mitch, getting canceled - has made her more “introspective,” but what that actually means for her character going forward, I have no idea. Related Invasion Review: Home Invasion (Season 1 Episode 6) She complains about how hard it is to be famous, wonders what happens to us after death, and declares that the world needs to “either get on the Alex Levy train or just stay at the station.”How is this even real? The event itself is sort of hilariously unhinged, as Alex rants against cancel culture and essentially has a mid-life crisis via livestream, all while essentially looking like death warmed over. (The fact that Chip lies to Alex and tells her he has COVID and then knowingly e xposes himself to COVID to get her to do this is really the icing on the cake. The Morning Show Season 2 – Photo Courtesy of Apple TV+Ĭory and Chip deciding to essentially live stream Alex’s illness also probably shouldn’t surprise me, because it’s exactly the kind of craven, manipulative thing that both of them would be more than okay with doing, particularly if it means a woman has to put herself out there and bear the brunt of any potential criticism as they reap the subscriber benefits.
It’s using COVID-19 to try and rehabilitate Alex and I just don’t think any of us were particularly interested in seeing that kind of story just yet. Because The Morning Show isn’t exactly respectfully retelling the story of the awful early days of COVID-19 in New York City. Related Dickinson Review: This is my letter to the World (Season 3 Episode 4)Īnd again, as I’ve said all season long, I truly don’t think we have enough distance from the coronavirus pandemic for a story like this to really land. It honestly feels like we’re meant to see Alex’s illness as some form of penance, that by struggling through a COVID infection she’s somehow atoning for all the things she’s been “canceled” for, and wow, I’m tired for so many reasons. Plus, Alex’s case apparently isn’t bad enough for her to be in the hospital, and she’s not on a ventilator, so although she clearly feels awful, all things considered at this particular moment in our nation’s history she’s doing better than most.
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First of all, this pandemic is still happening, I’m not sure who out there is eager to see drawn out moments of characters sweating and struggling through full body chills while other characters panic that they shared an elevator with them. Truly, however, I’m not sure who in the world thought we all wanted to watch an extended sequence of Alex Levy suffering through COVID symptoms, but I would like to ask that person some questions. Alex is simultaneously a bad person and a victim, kind of a monster, but one we can’t really blame too much. I’m not sure why The Morning Showis so resistant to picking a lane when it comes to literally anything this season, but it’s just another in a long list of examples of how it wants to have things both ways.
It feels like this show consistently made the weirdest, most indefensible choices all season long, from dedicating so much screen time to Mitch Kessler - whether alive or dead! - to its bizarre handling of the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, so it’s not a shock that it keeps right on doing that here.īecause, yes, of course, Alex Levy has caught COVID-19, and the show has fudged the timeline just enough to make it murky whether she brought it home with her from her ill-fated Italy trip (terrible decision making) or if she just caught it by accident in the pandemic’s earliest days in New York (bad luck). The Morning ShowSeason 2 Episode 10, “Fever,” is a messy end to a wildly uneven season, but at this point, I can’t imagine that anyone is terribly surprised.
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