2023-09-13 08:15:00
The third season of the award-winning drama “The Morning Show,” starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon explores behind the scenes of the competitive and often toxic culture of network television in the United Statespremieres its first two chapters today after a two-year hiatus on the Apple TV+ streaming platform.
“As we move through these episodes, there is still a constant sense of uncertainty. “Everyone is floating emotionally while trying to find their way, so we are going to see some extremes through the lens of this series,” explained one of the directors of the production, the renowned Mimi Leder, in statements to the press reproduced by American media. .
The panorama after a second installment marked by the global, news and personal consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and the professional separation between Alex Levy (Aniston) and Bradley Jackson (Witherspoon), who began “The Morning Show” as co-conductors of that morning cycle, has not yet returned to calm.
Now, Alex is in charge of her own program, a space in which she speaks openly about life and relationships that also helps her to go through her regrets, disappointments and mistakes from a past that had her heavily involved with her ex-colleague and now deceased Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell), the character who originally sparked the plot when he was fired over allegations of sexual abuse.
For her part, Bradley starts her new position as host of a nightly newscast, a position that she obtained as recognition for her coverage of the assault on the Capitol that occurred on January 6, 2021, and that now forces her to definitively leave behind the direct and daring that the public knew in the beginning to fully enter into the concessions and concealments of the corporate world.
Against the backdrop of other American events of recent times, such as the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police, the Supreme Court ruling that affected the right to legal abortion and Russia’s invasion of Ukrainian territory, The duo will continue their path as frenemies in a medium that is also grappling with its own future, when their foray into streaming leads its CEO, Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup), to seek financing from the technology billionaire. Paul Marks (Jon Hamm).
In this context, things become even more complicated when a hack brings to light all the files, videos and emails of the chain, endangering some of the protagonists’ confidences and exposing serious inequalities within the company, especially in relation to to issues of gender and race among its employees and on-screen figures.
In relation to their respective roles and the arc they have had so far, Aniston assured that in this season “Alex regains a good amount of power by taking the reins” of her career, and that it is an “unexpected, shocking, beautiful” journey. , distressing and, at times, sad”: “The beauty of the human experience is that we all have things to organize,” he added.
In addition to Jon Hamm, Witherspoon refers to comedian Tig Notaro (“Army of the Dead”) and Nicole Beharie (“Alone”), who join the cast that already includes the return of Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Julianna Margulies, Karen Pittman and Greta Lee, among more.
“The Morning Show”, which has already been renewed for a fourth season, has to its credit awards at the Critics’ Choice Awards, the laurels of the Screen Actors Guild of the United States and the Emmys, where the renowned Marcia Gay Harden was also nominated for Best guest actress for her second installment.
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