4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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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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