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Bad To 'Meh' Reviews For 'The Morning Show'
Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston's newest venture, "The Morning Show," has finally debuted on Apple TV+, and the reviews are coming in, some more favorable than others.
Script Adjusted To Reflect the #MeToo Movement
Steve Carell, Billy Crudup, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Mark Duplass also star in the show.
The story centers around Aniston's character, 'Morning Show' anchor Alex Levy, while Witherspoon plays Bradley Jackson, who's new to the set. Carell's character, Mitch Kessler, is on his way out of the fictional TV studio. Kessler's facing allegations of sexual assault.
One promo for the show features Steve Carell's character getting brushed out of street ads for "The Morning Show."
Aniston and Witherspoon, who executive produce the show, have both said that they rewrote parts of the series to reflect the #MeToo movement.
'A Kludge'
TV critic James Poniewozik submitted his review to The New York Times. Poniewozik makes the case that the show is clumsily put together, writing:
“After three episodes, this tech company’s first venture into TV is good only at appearing to be good.
It’s like something assembled in a cleanroom out of good-show parts from incompatible suppliers. Under the gleaming surface, as sleek and anodyne as an Apple Store, it is a kludge.”
Washington Post critic Hank Stuever was a bit more harsh:
"As a show, it’s spread on as thick as it looked to be in all those teaser trailers, a promisingly salacious tale of conflict that gets bogged down by its need to also seem noble.”
Maybe It Will Rebound
Matthew Gilbert, a critic for the _ Boston Globe_, says the show is simply trying to work out its rough patches.
“Perhaps the mixed signals of the first three episodes will resolve as the season — and the second season, already ordered — proceed,” Gilbert said.
