Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon on the relationship between pandemic and journalism
A book could be made only on the relationship between cinema, and today series, and journalism, citing the cornerstones from Ben Hecht who wrote First page to “Citizen kane” by Orson Welles, without forgetting many stages including “The ace in the hole ”by Billy Wilder, expert on the subject. Today with the second season of “The morning show” on Apple TV +, the debate is rekindled and also dulls, because to this day it is one of the few productions that, shot during the pandemic, makes no secret of it and puts it first slowly, he uses it for dramatic purposes. The pandemic thus becomes the protagonist of the latest episodes with an exaggerated melò start that catches the limp attention from the endless quarrels of the stars of the “Morning show”, that is Jennifer Aniston, more and more similar to Barbra Streisand, and Reese Whiterspoon, who are also the real producers of the series that especially in the first season has conquered a lot of the progressive New York audience.
In the second part, it loses its enamel and acquires repetitiveness, the story of the television rivalry continues, after the scandal of the harassing host broke out and a girl even killed herself. The serial poacher removed from the feminist protest, the problem remains of how to replace him and here is the arrival of the reporter Reese who would like to team up with Aniston, also to tear her to pieces live every morning, settling old grudges. In the meantime, everything happens, even a trip to Italy, on Lake Como (as always, Italian trips are not happy moments), for the expelled Mitch (the good Steve Carell) who enjoys the idleness of the lake next to the Clooney villa but also gives, before dying in a car accident, a last interview with the Italian guest star Valeria Golino, honestly confused. The story gets too complicated, since the two presenters take each other by the hair in the New Year’s Eve live broadcast in Times Square, while luckily the signal is interrupted. It gets worse when the newcomer sits in the command post next to a partner who is also her lover (so outing, pseudo scandal, embassy followers), while a freaked brother causes her the option of occasional trouble in the ready. rescue, always the mother’s fault.
Meanwhile, Jennifer goes to see his “ogre” Mitch with whom he had a short but intense love story little appreciated by his wife, and their story is about to be made eternal in a menacing fashion gossip book, but at this point there is the intervention biblical of the announced plague. The Coronavirus, like the plague did with Bette Davis in “Jezebel”, hits the presenter without taking away the strength to make a live broadcast in full contagion, with fever, frankly a scene of macabre and cynical falsehood that not even Baby Jane … The second ” Morning show “, after the initial success, he throws himself headlong into the melò, ignoring that accusation to the media already crossed by the cinema so many times and which here is often too fake, with all those offices, the suspense of the live broadcast, the mobile phones looming while the dialogue is dribbled only two words: Oh my God and ca … o, the little word with two zetas but that is not pizza.
The professional charm remains of the first women in perennial quarrel, but the script, even with people from Emmy awards, follows well-known paths. Bradley and Alex can’t stand it anymore, being two characters who are not at all empathic, like Bradley’s trick of unveiled homosexuality traced back to hasty family reasons, while the scandal falls immediately because the rule in force is the hypocrisy of a system who knows everything and is silent, so much so that the attempt to put the cards on the table is blocked by managers ready for any cynicism. A good purchase is that of Julianna Margulies, the real lesbian who enters the plot, the television popularity novel by upsetting the morning viewers, while Covid arrives overwhelmingly already in the second episode with the transfer of Daniel to Wuhan and then triumphs in the feverish grand finale , Live Thermometer, March 2020.
May 4, 2022 (change May 4, 2022 | 11:15 am)
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