I remember the publicity run that happened when Apple TV+ launched The Morning Show starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Carell, and Reese Witherspoon. Two massive television personalities and a movie star anchoring a new streaming show about a network morning talk show? I was interested, but we always had so much to watch. We never had time to watch.

Well, that changed recently when we finished Succession. We decided to give The Morning Show a shot and have made it our current show that we’re watching. I don’t know what the general consensus is on the show even though they recently finished their third season, because I honestly don’t hear anybody talk about it. Are people out there watching it?

The first season features Carell’s Mitch Kessler caught up in a sex abuse scandal (think Matt Lauer) at the UBA network. Maybe I should’ve paid more attention to the marketing, because color me surprised when more people I love showed up like Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Janina Gavankar. The casting on this show is excellent.

Sure, is the show wildly dramatized to tell the story? Of course. However, the balancing act comes in on whether or not the show does a good job with the message that they’re trying to get across. I think the message that the show is trying to get across is that sexual predators, especially those in positions of power, and those that protect and enable them should be punished and ostracized from polite society. Did they succeed? Mostly, but it feels like a struggle to get there at times.

I do like the show going out of its way to show that, while some people may be altruistic in their reasons for taking somebody down, a lot of people will look for reasons and times that work best for them, especially in that industry. I also can’t wait for rich people and awful people to stop using “canceled“.

We liked the show enough to keep going into season two, so I’ll be back here once we finish.