Waking Up To Apple’s ‘The Morning Show’ – Crew Call Podcast
deadline.comAnthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorWhen Apple TV+ launched its flagship series The Morning Show starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carell, it didn’t exactly knock critics off its feet with a 61% Rotten Tomatoes score.Compare that to the first season of HBO’s Big Little Lies, another Witherspoon-produced zeitgeist series about #MeToo or even Netflix’s binge-pioneering DC takedown show House of Cards at 86% fresh.
There was some displaced anger laid on by critics for myriad reasons; Morning Show series EP and director Mimi Leder saying last November, “I just felt there were a lot of Apple haters and wanting Apple to fail” at a Recode Media Conference to reviewers simply making a hasty judgement about.
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