There was a narrative choice in The Morning Show, designed to change our view of what we’ve seen so far, but I don’t know if it worked as strongly as expected. We begin the third season with the action already underway, the sale of the network, and a strange relationship between Cory (Billy Crudup) and Bradley (Reese Witherspoon), among other dramas. Now we go back in time to contextualize the stories, which helps to humanize and create the trap for new twists.

Absent from the drama, so far, is Alex (Jennifer Aniston). Her life is apparently going smoothly, as far as we can see. In this return of time, we relive the years of pandemic, isolation, and masks that despite being yesterday, are already distant when we look at the screens. In this chaotic scenario, Bradley, the eternal self-saboteur, had a night with Cory but chose to continue with Laura (Juliana Marguiles), breaking his heart. The third season has given more insight into how he feels, what he plans, and how he is not – or is – a sociopath indifferent to the suffering of others. Cory doesn’t control Bradley, she manipulates him however she wants. Going against everything feminism preaches, she doesn’t just use it to advance professionally (Bradley had a meteoric rise of less than one year from being a square reporter to being an anchor at UBA’s main network newspaper), but to solve your personal messes too. There’s nothing that Bradley asks him not to do: from ignoring the fact that he was dumped after a night he considered to be love, to lying to the FBI and paying millions to hackers and preventing personal videos of her from being leaked onto the networks. I already didn’t like Bradley, but how she makes me sympathize with Cory makes me even angrier with her.

Another victim of the zone is Bradley Jackson. Laura Peterson is one of the most complete and respected journalists in the USA (in the series) and is in love with Bradley. She is more experienced, more prepared, and sounds like a snob to her girlfriend, however, it is Laura who makes and redoes every effort to ignore Bradley’s pitis and rudeness, who tries to manipulate her as he does with Cory, without the same result. Laura gives in, but not as readily as Bradley is becoming accustomed to. Isolated in Montana, they live an idyllic moment during the pandemic, cut short by the news that the reporter’s mother has COVID-19, and passes away before Bradley can even meet her. Somehow – as always – Bradley takes out his frustration on others, blaming Laura for “taking her away” from her mother. Laura is firm and tells the truth, but Bradley responds by leaving and focusing on his career, which now means taking the position Alex wants: anchor on the evening news.

And how does Bradley get there? Of course, using others, creating problems, and calling on Cory to solve everything. Her brother Hal (Joe Tippet) is one of the rioters storming the Capitol, but she deletes the image, lies to the FBI, and gets Cory to support her in this. Again: how angry at Bradley Jackson!

Meanwhile, Cory deals with a broken heart and the problem of trying to save the economically sinking station. That’s when he crosses paths with Paul Marks (Jon Hamm), that rude being that every screenwriter loves to cast as an Alpha man: he decides when the interview ends by standing up in the middle and leaving the reporter looking like an idiot on air (this rarely happens because it’s unrealistic). !), is arrogant with Cory, with the shadow. As Stella (Greta Lee) said, he is “relentless.” Lazy description and a cliché character. Relentless and interesting is Axel Rod from Billions. Paul is a favorite next to him. But Stella is hiding the game, she holds the cards to destroy Paul so much that she has stopped working with him and is now suffering from returning to his orbit. We’ll know more soon, I hope.

That said, we see Mia (Karen Pittman) in her romance with the photographer (Vikings) André (Clive Standen), but how they fell out and are now in a virtual relationship, without even knowing if by not respecting his request to wait until leaving Russia to publish the photos put him at risk. Mia is another complex character, with her grudges expressed at strange times. She was the one who suggested hiring Chris Hunter (Nicole Beharie) and now we understand how the presenter got into The Morning Show, but it didn’t help me at all in empathizing with Mia.

After a strong episode like last week’s, which accurately addressed issues of racism, Love Island only left me even more in a bad mood with two women who can’t define themselves. Mia still has my hope, while Bradley looks like a train crashing into a wall. And I’ll have no problem saying goodbye.

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