The length was more due to laziness than the quality of the show. We are just not binge watchers of anything. I get it's the culture now, but we're not there yet.
The show itself is actually well done. I mean, it's not Aaron Sorkin's Newsroom - but that's not necessarily a bad thing either.
While both shows are slightly heavy-handed, the Morning Show is pretty much - at least Season 1 - is a one topic hand. Newsroom was a new topic each week, so they had more to shove down your throat in a shorter period of time.
The Morning Show is all about #metoo. And it's well done, if not dark and creepy, but you know......#metoo. Those guys are dark and creepy.
For the most part, I can take or leave both Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. To me, Friends is not a show that has aged well. In a way, it's like the comedy version of Succession - in terms of all the characters are just so unlikeable when you break down their annoyances. Witherspoon may have been at her best as Aniston's sister on that sitcom.
Witherspoon has an Oscar (who doesn't?), but for most of the episodes Aniston comes off better. Not nice - just better, as an actress. I'm not sure Reese gets her due until the last episode. But she's has dark hair in this, so you know she's serious actress.
The best scene is with Witherspoon, but it has little to do with her. Someone named Gugu Mbatha-Raw (honest, I'm not making that up - though she might have) carries the episode, not even the scene.
Steve Carell is there too. He's one of the creepy #mtoo'ers. He's almost likeable until he's not. Ironically, he thinks is pal, played by Martin Short, is a predator, when in fact, Carell's "Mitch" is too - maybe worse, he clearly just doesn't see it.
Oh - and BILLY CRUDUP. The man is fucking brilliant when he wants to be, and he is beyond brilliant here. For me, he totally makes the show.
We finally made it through all 10 episodes, right before Season 2 starts. Maybe that won't take us as long to make it through the next 10.
Song by: Cat Stevens
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I liked Friends and everyone doesn’t have an Oscar. It’s still the Gold Standard with Katharine Hepburn at the Pinnacle . I’ve heard this got great reviews. Reese Witherspoons Private Company is Making a Bazillion dollars. I hate Seinfeld worse than any other show ever. That is all.😊
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