Must see TV

By Gonzalo López Martí- Creative Director
https://www.LopezMartiMiami.com/

• If you happen to be gainfully employed in a multiethnic workplace in the fields of entertainment, media, advertising, marketing, streaming and the like, trust me: you gotta see The Morning Show on Apple TV+.
• See, when Apple TV+ released it with big fanfare circa 2019, I brushed it off.
• I was reluctant to sacrifice sleep over what appeared to be a soapy ensemble sitcom.
• The cast telegraphed toothless comedy with carefully focus grouped gender, racial and sexual representation.
  Cut to 2024.
• A friend whose pop culture taste I happen to trust suggested I give it a try.
• I did I and I must say that I am pleasantly surprised.
• Boy I was wrong.
• Pardon me oh gods of entertainment for I was prejudiced.
• Not sure I would call it a masterpiece, but it is a very very good show.
• To their credit, I don’t think they are trying to make history here.
• They are not trying to reach for the stars.
• It simply is a well thought out, flawlessly executed pastime for grownup audiences.
• Quite refreshing coming from self-important Hollywood types.
• Despite some tropes here & there the storyline is quick on its feet yet pretty plausible.
• Airtight script, no facile plot shortcuts, no shark jumps.
• It manages to deal with the zeitgeist in a fair and balanced fashion.
• There’s a leettle lecturing and some exposition, but it is subtle and totally passable.
• It stays healthily away from virtue signaling and grandstanding.
• No faux true crime, no serial killers, no glamourized cartel kingpins.
• Nobody is totally innocent or totally guilty.
• Add a generous budget, flawless realistic settings, great camera work sans unnecessary affectation.
• No gratuitous drug use.
• Awkward sex scenes kept to a bare minimum.
• Quite kosher and perhaps even educational for older teens.
• Billy Crudup steals every scene.
• It certainly helps that he got the best role and the best lines, but still.
• His recent Emmy award is well deserved.
• Kudos.
• Mark Duplass is great too.
• Our man Néstor Carbonell initially looks like the token Latino in the room.
• The proverbial DEI hire.
• But his character, Yanko Flores, evolves nicely, becomes fully fleshed out and highly relatable.
• Spoiler alert: he seems to be the only decent dude in the lineup without an agenda or an axe to grind.
• He’s just a romantic who happens to love his job.
• The two main stars, Aniston & Witherspoon, display good range and chemistry, but I am not sure these are career
• defining roles.
• Problem is, it is extremely hard to not remember Rachel and Legally Blonde when they appear on screen.
• They deliver the dramatic goods though.
• Oddly enough, Steve Carell is the weakest link.
• He is OBVIOUSLY channeling Matt Lauer.
• Carell is arguably one of the top ten big & small screen comedians alive.
• He rarely misses the thespian mark, but something’s not fully clicking here.
• Maybe he’s too much of a nice guy to play such a first-rate a**hole.
• Spoiler alert: I finished binging on the first season and am already two episodes into Season 2, the plot becomes a little far-fetched but it’s still worth it.