The Morning Show: My Least Favorite Year

September 17, 2021 7:35 AM - Season 2, Episode 1

Controversy and betrayal strike TMS as a new year approaches. Alex faces a difficult decision.
posted by ellieBOA (5 comments total)

Recap of the last episode of last season as there is no 'previously on'!
posted by ellieBOA at 7:45 AM on September 17, 2021

So fascinated to see that they’re going to cover the COVID outbreak in all of this.
posted by ukdanae at 2:05 PM on September 17, 2021 [2 favorites]

Already in choosing which news stories to cover they decide not to do the one about the respiratory virus in China.
posted by Obscure Reference at 1:53 PM on September 18, 2021

I saw a “previously on” before the episode, and interestingly the story that Alex and Bradley were reporting before they went off script was a mystery illness on a cruise liner. But as that episode was set eight months before December 2019, I suppose it’s coincidence.
posted by ejs at 5:14 PM on September 22, 2021

Miscellaneous observations:

- love the terrible mixed metaphor of rising from the ashes like Venus from the clamshell. Also, Corey admitting he's barely holding it together.

- did they say "baby new year beginning to crown"?

- Yanko being wrong about the weather and the psychic missing basically everything about Alex (except for maybe the end?) is an interesting little foreshadowing of no one knowing what's coming in 2020.
posted by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug at 11:09 PM on September 25, 2021 [2 favorites]