In this week’s episode of The Morning Show, we are dealing with the murky world of credit stealing and plagiarism that gets inflated to nasty proportions.
Subtlety has never been the forte of The Morning Show. However, if you are dealing with career massacres and suicide attempts, some amount of sensitivity is welcome.
Therefore, this approach didn’t sit well with me. Moreover, Alex Levy’s continuous portrayal as the ultimate savior has become monotonous.
This article will walk you through this week’s episode. Without further ado, let’s get started!
1. Bradley’s Dilemma
Bradley’s brother Hal has a botched-up conscience that has decided to become Gandhian at the worst moment possible.
In this week’s episode, Hal, Cheryl, and their newborn daughter visit Bradley, and we think she’ll finally have a pleasant time with her brother.
However, Hal’s conscience has acted up, and he’s decided to turn himself over to the FBI for a crime he committed two years ago.
Even though Bradley fixed that ages ago, Hal suddenly wants to ‘do the right thing.’
However, the ‘right thing’ also involves leaving his newborn kid and wife, who is oblivious to Hal’s madness. Talk about double standards!
Bradley understandably gets pissed and tries to get Hal back on track. She takes him to a studio to interview someone who went to prison for the exact thing Hal did. The man confesses that he regrets losing his family because of his crimes. However, that is not enough to make her brother see reason.
Later, Bradley bids Alex a halfhearted farewell and thanks her for everything she’s done. This makes Alex wonder whether Bradley is leaving UBA. Little does she know that Hal’s immaturity has put his sister in a precarious position. Her career is over if she’s arrested for covering up Hal’s crimes.
However, the savior makes a grand entry when you think all is doomed. Bradley has another trump card at her disposal: Laura Paterson.
Laura visits Hal and seeks his approval for her relationship with Bradley. Quite miraculously, this exchange does the trick. Moments later, Bradley discovers a note from Hal explaining that he’s changed his mind. Bradley is left blissfully confused in the end (Thank God!)
2. The Stanford Student’s Situation
This week’s episode primarily deals with Stanford graduate Stella Bak, who is also the head of the UBA News division.
It is where The Morning Show talks about the touchy subject of plagiarism. As a college student, Stella got her tech idea stolen by Paul Marks. Although she did sign an NDA, they are just used to shut people up, as Alex tells Paul in his interview.
Stella becomes infuriated with Paul when he acquires UBA, but she can’t do anything about it. However, she finds a chink in the armor when Alex invites him for an episode of ‘Alex Unfiltered.’
Also, producer Chip Black gets some much-needed screentime in the episode as Stella confides her scheme in the man. However, things don’t pan out well for him in the end, as we will find out later.
3. The Stanford Student is Offered the CEO’s Job: The Ending Explained
Things can’t be better for CEO Cory Ellison as Paul Marks is finally investing in UBA, and he doesn’t want anything to mess it up. However, Alex has other plans and wants to put Paul under his own magnifying glass in her show.
Alex approaches him with the offer, and surprisingly, he agrees almost instantly. It is because Paul Marks is completely smitten by Alex Levy, and he’d have agreed to jump off a cliff if Alex were to say so!
The Morning Show has never lacked melodrama, and this episode’s conclusion takes it to a new level. Alex goes all out in her show and keeps throwing controversial questions at Paul. She asks him about the accusations against his company, Hyperion, and the billionaire keeps dodging them.
Finally, she brings ‘the Stanford’ student into the equation, and Paul softens up immediately. She mentions that the stolen idea fiasco broke her down completely, and she had suicidal thoughts for a long time. Surprisingly, Paul apologizes on live television and owns up to his mistakes.
Jennifer Aniston and Paul Hamm share a top-notch chemistry in this show, and the makers milked it out to the fullest in this episode. Right after the stinging interview, the two get lovey-dovey under the sheets with ‘Cigarettes After Sex’ and ‘Each Time You Fall in Love’ playing in the background.
This is where it becomes a little insensitive. I mean, Alex just accused Marks of ruining someone’s career and driving them toward suicide, and now they are bumping uglies?
Elsewhere, Chip abruptly proposes to Isabella, and she immediately turns him down. We can’t blame her, can we?
The episode ends with us knowing that Paul Marks is contemplating making Sella Bak the new CEO. Now, does that make him a good person?
I want to think that he’s genuinely trying to become nice, but something tells me that it is just a facade to buy Stella’s silence forever.
Either way, we are heading for a Cory vs. Stella vs. Marks in the series’ remaining episodes. I have already chosen my pick. Have you?
4. About The Morning Show
The Morning Show (also known as Morning Wars in Australia and Indonesia) is an American drama streaming television series starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carell, that premiered on Apple TV+ on November 1, 2019. The series is inspired by Brian Stelter’s book Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV.
Reese Witherspoon’s Bradley Jackson and Jennifer Aniston’s Alex are a newbie and a veteran morning show host, respectively, who are thrown together after Aniston’s former on-air partner (Steve Carell) is fired following a sexual harassment scandal.
Alex (Aniston) fights to retain her job as top news anchor while sparking a rivalry with Bradley Jackson (Witherspoon), a haphazard field reporter whose series of impulsive decisions brings her into a new world of television journalism.
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