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Cinephile with Adnan Virk

The Morning Show, The Boys, Biggest TV Flops, 1994 Oscars

Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Adnan Virk, Le Batard & Friends

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Adnan reviews of the Apple TV+ original series, "The Morning Show." Plus, Joe gives a special guest review for season one of Amazon Prime's superhero drama, "The Boys." In honor of Adnan's review of "The Morning Show," the guys give their picks for the Mount Rushmore of Greatest TV Flops and then they re-pick the 1994 Oscars on the penultimate edition of Total Recall! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Glocky and expensive the series is a giant, faultless,

2:25.8

my son at a late baseball game, 845, unbelievable, under the lights, get on with 10-45 last Thursday night or 8-7 day trial expiring amid

2:34.6

that I'm cramming in the morning show, ignoring work, ignoring family, ignoring friends, and then Joe tells me

2:40.0

to come up with a better way to do it, and I forgot to cancel the free trial, so we're good for another month, more Apple Plus.

2:45.0

So you know what Joe, we can now review whatever the hell this Chris Evans show is called, defending Jacob, I believe the banker

2:52.4

is Sam Jacksonser, we have plenty of Apple Plus content now coming to send a file for the next month.

2:57.2

Yeah, I heard the defendive Jacob was pretty good too, and when you sent me that note that you're cramming it in, I felt so bad last Friday, because I woke up and I was just, and I checked my emails and I thought, oh crap, I forgot to cancel the free trial, so I'm glad you were able to get it in.

3:15.2

If anything, I feel like it was a motivation to finish the morning show.

3:18.2

It wasn't motivation to finish it, and clearly it wasn't one that I was necessarily enjoying.

3:23.4

The morning show, debut last fall, I'm sure you've heard all about it, because Apple Plus paid a ton of money for, apparently just gobs and gobs of money for two seasons of it.

3:34.0

I don't know the exact numbers, I read somewhere $100 million for two seasons of it.

3:38.6

I do know this, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, 1.25 million per episode, and there's 10 episodes.

3:44.2

So 12 and a half million dollars for Rachel Green's return to television, and Reese Witherspoon, who was terrific and big little lies, here's another 12 and a half million dollars just for the show just for one season.

3:56.0

The reviews have not been kind, which is I had no real desire to see it, and trust me, it's not that great a show.

4:02.4

I will stop short of saying it's a colossal flop, because the show does get better as it goes along, but out of the gate, and most critics reviewed the first three episodes, as a reason why it was getting scorched.

4:13.4

You've heard about it, in case you don't know what it is about. The morning show begins. Everyone's phones, iPhones naturally exploding in the pre-dawn hours.

4:21.0

Alex Levy, Jennifer Aniston, arrives in the early morning, darken her networks to learn that Mitch Kessler, Steve Carell, her 15-year partner in Wake New America has been fired for sexual misconduct.

4:31.4

The morning show you say, okay, well, this is based on the today show, right? And Mitch is obviously Matt Lauer.

4:35.4

The series is actually loosely inspired by Brian Stealthers 2013 book, Top of the Morning, which focused mostly on the cutthroat battles of Breakfast Time television.

4:44.4

And then, Me Too erupted in, and so now you feel like the show has become very different. They've got to include that.

4:50.0

Obviously, how can you make a morning show and not talk about Me Too, especially when this show clearly looks like it's based on the today show.

4:56.6

So, of the many issues with the show is, I don't think they really know what they're trying to do. Is it about a workplace environment and a TV show trying to fight the good fight?

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