Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Karen Pittman, Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle), Bel Powley, Jack Davenport, Martin Short, Fred Melamed.
A topical show in which there's plenty of stuff about women in power and the #MeToo debate (Short plays a sort of Polanski type figure) but woven through the story, which has threatened morning TV anchor Jen impulsively hiring outspoken jaded journalist Reese to be her co-host (both exec produced at a hands-on level). It touches on everything - couple who are just going out together have to justify whether one of them was coercing the other - 'we didn't' - fuck off!
It takes until episode eight to go back in time to Carell's birthday celebrations, a sexist environment, and his sort-of-rape of a girl in Vegas - an odd scene - we both thought she should have told him to fuck off - ends with Weinstein case breaking... This is Gugu Mbatha-Raw doing a great American accent (she was brought up in Oxfordshire); she's come a long way since Belle, but was in plenty before that, debuting in Holby City in 2005...
Apple TV's first original release, oddly not given out as a box set but in weekly chunks. How old school!
Reese runs a book group and when she finds interesting material, options it! Led to an interesting discussion about how powerful Bette Davis was...
The showrunner is Kerry Ehrin who produced the five series Psycho prequel Bates Motel. Finally, it perhaps is slightly overbalanced by issues-to-plot.
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