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Because she agrees that they should be the ones to report it if it's true. Stella runs off to tell Mia, who takes a minute to be stunned and then gathers her team to work on confirmation. The flurry of activity that follows actually seems, in broad strokes, like something that might happen in a newsroom! Cory demands that Stella produce Alex, because Cory has a heart made of balance sheets and he thinks Alex should be the one to announce Mitch's death for ratings and publicity reasons.
Because this death news isn't actually confirmed yet, and it would sure be unfortunate if somebody broke the story other than UBA. This is news to Cory and Stella and the goons, and it sends them into a panic. But as far as we're concerned? I didn't see anything bad in it.") Unfortunately, right when they're in the middle of this strategy talk, a call comes in to one of the goons seeking comment about. (Classic Cory: "Oh, on a human level, horrible.
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Pop Culture Happy Hour 'Eternals': A Marvel movie for everyone who complains about Marvel movies CoryĬory is chatting about The Excerpt with a couple of his besuited goons, and he really doesn't think it's that bad. By the end I was just waving a pennant and chanting "CHIP, CHIP, CHIP!" Chip talks about how they've apparently drained all the humanity out of Alex's "dry soul," which is amazing, and how she's relying on the "rapidly dwindling faceless masses who only think they love you because they don't know the real you." (Score!) "The real you is an emotional murderer" (SCORE!), and it just goes on and on like that. But she is clearly about to send someone a text that says "OMG my boss is chaos."Īnd then! There is a scene in which Chip decides to grow a backbone all of a sudden, and he gets Alex's answering machine and unloads - just unloads - a bunch of truth bombs unto Alex, beginning with "What the are you doing, you dumb ?" If I had not just quoted Cory's entire rant, I would quote Chip's, because it is also great and very well written, and it uses the excellent Mark Duplass much better than all the mopey business he's been mired in lately. If she took him seriously, I don't think it would work. What makes this scene successful is that Crudup is completely committed, and Greta Lee looks at him the entire time like he is completely deranged, like he's explaining to her that the moon is made of marshmallow fluff. Read recaps of past episodes of The Morning Show here.
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Here's Cory's full elevator speech, because it deserves to be enjoyed in its flamboyant weirdness: People sleeping on the couch because of their crazy hours? Cory psyching himself up in his luxe digs to a cover of "Sixteen Tons"? It works.Īnd the scene where Cory starts telling Stella in the elevator about how it's really been bothering him that she asked how he was doing? That's bizarre and great! This is why people fell in love with this Billy Crudup performance in the first season and why he won the show its one Emmy. Certainly the strongest of the season maybe the strongest of the series? Particularly in the opening few minutes, you see what this show should be: the weird, pointy, highly-stylized dark workplace comedy-drama that we could have had this whole time. In the meantime, it took its eyes off anything with any complexity on the show at all.Īnd then it came back this week, with one of its strongest episodes ever.
Last week's episode was very messy, narratively and philosophically: It focused on fundamentally uninteresting characters doing uninteresting things. Mia (Karen Pittman) is right in the eye of the storm this week, as news about Mitch arrives during the TMS broadcast.Ĭonsider this The Morning Show's best plot twist yet: This is a very good episode of TV.