Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineIn The Morning Show, Jennifer Aniston plays a kind of angel to Billy Crudup’s devil. Aniston’s Alex Levy, an utterly dedicated and focused television news anchor, holds tight to a good-person identity, so she’s floored when co-anchor Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) is outed for sexual misconduct, and she’s forced to question her own failure to see what was hidden in plain sight.
Meanwhile, Crudup’s news exec Cory Ellison embraces his inner Machiavelli as he attempts to edge Alex out of her job. Then the magic happens: Alex bares her teeth, appointing surprise new co-anchor Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) and telling a post-#MeToo, all-male boardroom, “You don’t have the power anymore.” An impressed.
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