The somewhat unengaging further adventures of the Morning Show team, featuring Jen An, Reese, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Greta Lee, Julianna Margulies, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, Desean Terry, Ruari O'Connor and Holland Taylor.
Perhaps of more interest is a storyline about exiled Steve Carrell striking up relationship with feisty Italian documentary maker Valeria Golino in Italy (looks like Lake Garda - probably is Croatia again. Ha! No! An old nunnery in Santa Madre, California, apparently, was his house, the village was also built there and then CGI'ed into Lake Wherever.)
Stuff about racial offense caused by weatherman Carbonell talking about his spirit animal is the height of ridiculosity.
There are 25 producers credited on this show. No kidding. It suffers from Lockdownitis, which is where there are increasingly isolated long dialogue scenes between two people, resulting in what is often a filmed play, particularly evident in episode seven in which Jen travels to Italy to confront Carrell, which is just talk talk talk.
Intrigued to see Rachel Morrison directing episode 6. She's normally a DP, on Seberg, Black Panther, Mudbound, Cake. Rikers High, an early 2005 documentary, is about the academy for inmates at Rikers Island.
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