The Morning Show
The Interview
Season 1 Episode 10
Editors Rating 4 stars ****
Photo: Apple TV+
Friends, countrymen, Apple TV+ subscribers: Weve made it to the end of this wild, Jennifer AnistonIsOurOneTrueQueenfueled ride that is The Morning Show season one. Was it at times cheesy as hell and trying way too hard? Yes. Did Bradley Jackson never once make complete sense as a character? Also, yes. But does it pretty much stick the landing? You betcha. Once a show rolls out the Vivaldi while two main characters fist fight on an apartment building lobby floor, you know it is Getting! Things! Done!
All of the scheming that went down in last weeks episode comes to a tragic, volatile head in the season finale. The timetable for both sides Bradley, Cory, and Chip over on Team Interview Mitch and Take Down Fred Mickland, and Fred and Alex on Team Save Our Asses was always a short one, but as more information comes to light, people grow more desperate.
Blame it on Maggie Brenner, I guess? Once she gives Fred a heads-up about the investigation shes doing into his cover-up of Mitch Kesslers sexual misconduct, Fred knows its time to deploy Operation Fall Guy: He expedites the findings of that totally unbiased internal investigation into TMS, so that he can offer up Chip as the one to blame for letting Mitchs behavior go unchecked for so long. Chip has always known hed end up getting blamed, but that doesnt make the scene in which Fred fires him any less emotional. Partly because Fred telling Chip how sick it makes him that someone he trusted was endangering his employees makes me want to flip a table; partly because it is Alex whose begrudging approval of Chips replacement, Marlon Tate, is the final nail in Chips TMS coffin; but especially because Marlon Tate really is the biggest doofus. Poor Chip! Yes, I feel bad for Chip now. Thats where we are in this season.
To pull off the Mitch interview on TMS without even Alex knowing, theres a very fragile plan in play and Chip getting fired does not help. After meeting with Mitch to find out who he has to corroborate his story about Fred when he tells them its Hannah he adds that he didnt realize she was working [him] for good measure because, yes, friends, Mitch Kessler is still playing the victim Bradley wants to make sure Hannah is ready and willing to tell her story. Even if she remains anonymous, its a huge risk on her part and shes starting to realize that more and more especially once a call comes in from another UBA department, offering her a promotion on a show in sunny Los Angeles. Yep, UBA is trying to buy her silence one more time, isnt that swell?
Hannah is falling apart, but she feels like she has to protect other people in her position, so she has Bradley come to her apartment. Reliving the whole thing from Mitch, whom she saw as a parental figure, using her body like that to Fred silencing her without even knowing who she was is obviously traumatic for Hannah. She keeps telling Bradley shes fine, that other people have gone through worse, but by the end of it, she breaks. Teary-eyed and angry, she tries to explain what it feels like to not only have been violated, but to be completely defined by that moment. Bradley tries to remind Hannah that none of this is her fault, but Hannah doesnt want to hear it: All due respect, please take your rhetoric and just fuck off, she says.
Bradley leaves that extremely upsetting meeting for all of us second-guessing if she should even be doing this interview, if she should be putting Hannah through any of this. It is in this moment that Chip shows up and informs her that he was fired and that this interview needs to happen tomorrow. Everyones doing great, guys! At least Chip calls out that none of them are doing this interview for purely altruistic reasons: He wants the interview done tomorrow because he knows Fred will surely cut the network feed rather than be exposed, which means that big announcement of the internal investigations implicating Chip will be postponed, and he knows that part of the reason Bradley is doing this is because it could be huge for her career. No one is simply fighting for justice here! Bradley does not make a callback to her Were newspeople! moment, but she does in my dreams. Instead, she spirals because I guess she suffers from imposter syndrome now. To calm her down Chip tries to hug her, but Bradley pushes him off: Dont hug me right now, what the hell is that going to fix? which, if someone would like to iron that onto a T-shirt with a picture of just Bradleys wig, I would wear it.
So, even though this could blow up in their faces, and even though Hannah is certainly not in any emotional place to have her story told to a national audience, theyre going through with the interview. Cory, too, has his misgivings, but those mainly have to do with how sleazy Mitch is. He pays him a visit to make clear that he may very well soon be head of UBA and that if Mitch ever wants a shot at redemption he needs to pull the victim crap and confess. Cory remains a true blessing on this show.
The morning of the interview, everything is in place to sneak Mitch in the building. Cory will be manning the control room to make sure they stay on Bradley and Mitch when it goes down. This is really happening. But then, things take a turn.
While Freds introducing Marlon to the TMS team before the show, Bradley gets a call from Claire. Claire had been trying to make amends with Hannah after their huge fight over Yanko by showing up at Hannahs apartment with coffee before work. But when she arrives she discovers that Hannah has died from an overdose.
Knowing she was the one who made Hannah relive all of her trauma, Bradley takes on all the blame. After informing the staff, and calling Chip to tell him there is no way she is doing this interview now, Bradley goes to see Alex. Not only does she tell her that they were going to interview Mitch behind her back, not only does she admit that it was partly to blow up Alexs career, but she also says that shes leaving. She cant do this anymore.
In the wake of Hannahs death, Alex is finally finally taking a hard look at her role in all of this and reexamining what the hell shes doing aligning herself with Fred Mickland. She chases Bradley out on the street to get her to come back inside because she knows she was wrong to align herself with Fred and because they need to fix whats happened. Oh, and also to yell at some dude trying to get a photo of them that she is just an empty vessel, because that is the kind of show this is! Bradley goes inside to appease her, but immediately tries to leave again. Its Cory who convinces Bradley to stay and fight the fight against the Fred Micklands of the world. And off we go!
Several things happen at once: Claire runs into the studio, beside herself over Hannah, and back into Yankos arms, which is nice because Yankos drunken El Nio speech about the anchovies was really bumming me out. Chip, distraught over his role in Hannahs death, meets Mitch in the lobby of his building, tells him about Hannah, punches him in the face, and as the two wrestle on the ground, admits that he is the one who leaked the initial story about Mitch to the New York Times. It is awesome. Then, bloody and stumbling around New York, Chip leaves a voice-mail for Alex telling her that he leaked the story because they were going to get rid of her and he knew that if they didnt have Mitch, theyd need her to stay: It was always for you. Always. YOU GUYS. We dont even have time to talk about this declaration of love what a journey my feelings for Chip have gone on this season! because its back at the studio where things are really getting interesting.
Alex Levy cant even get three words out during the opening of The Morning Show before she asks Bradley to take over. While Bradley tries to get through the news, Alex is, well, shes having a meltdown. Shes walking all over the studio, in and out of the shot, shes sweating, shes asking people on the crew their names and chiding herself for not knowing everyone. Alex Levy decides she isnt going to be complicit anymore. She gets in Bradleys shot and starts laying down some truths. Truths about how she turned a blind eye and let the women working at TMS feel threatened without doing anything about it because she was succeeding. Truths about the bogus internal investigations that are going to be released. Truths about Fred Mickland covering up sexual misconduct for years. Are we doing this? Bradley asks her co-anchor.
Oh, they are so doing this.
As the two of them quickly spout off the truth, knowing they could be pulled off the air at any time, Cory is in the control room overriding any calls Marlon is trying to make. Fred Mickland runs runs! downstairs, but is locked out of the control room, which, punctuated by Corys smug wave from inside the room, is honestly hilarious. And finally, as Alex and Bradley rail against simply accepting a culture of silence, Fred has someone completely cut the feed. UBA goes to color bars. It is the only way to stop them. In Times Square, Chip sees the UBA feed go out and knows what Alex and Bradley have done.
Perplexingly, the final shot of the season is of Mitch Kessler, bloodied and bruised, sitting all alone in his giant, empty house, perhaps for the first time reckoning with what he has done but this is not his story. Instead, as the season ends, Ill keep with me the image of our two leading ladies taking on an entire network. Remember when Alex Levy, in her fabulous red coat, told the UBA board that they dont have the power anymore? Yeah, she wasnt kidding.
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