The Morning Show - Apple TV

Have you got to the lesbian stuff yet?

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Aniston

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I'll ask the most important question.

Does she get naked?

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I enjoy shows about "news stations' etc

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I'm assuming you've watched The Newsroom on HBO? One of the greatest shows of all time imo.

season 2 is one of the most unintentionally funny shows

It takes itself so seriously

I know I'm in the minority there. But I absolutely love The Newsroom. I'm a big West Wing fan as well but I actually like The Newsroom better.

I know it's not really the show for this board because it's a democratic news station but that didn't bother me at all, I just loved the way they covered the news. Felt very realistic and the characters and dialogue were just top tier.

I like The Morning Show but like most things they went too woke with the last season. Focused on black employees and BLM and how the corporate whites are all bad, etc.

Also had a storyline in Texas the reported on that went hard after republicans.

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My main issue at the time - and it’s been years since I watched the show - was that the dialogue was too exact for me. Not even the briefest of pauses between characters during conversations full of overly witty retorts and quips. It just came off very unnatural to me, and I’ve worked with very highly intelligent people and no one really converses like that.

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Yea very little pauses in between when it's office conversations. i always liked it. Maybe it's because I work in a room full of dummies, myself included, and I think "hey that's probably what smart people talk like".

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Also, they couldn’t shut up about Don Quixote.

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Mac: I learned French to read Don Quixote in it's original language.

Will: Don Quixote was spanish.

Mac: Well that's a year of my life wasted

or something like that.

Will, Mac, Sloan, Don, and Charlie are all time characters for me. It's one of the shows I could probably rewatch yearly.

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Now you got me thinking about a rewatch soon. Think I might do it.

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Do it! I for sure liked it better the second go around.

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I enjoyed it. Watched the West Wing and the Newsroom in college. Liked both on first watch. After growing up and knowing more about politics and religion, the religious and conservative parts, specifically the 2 main characters (Josiah Bartlett and Will McAvoy), are clearly written by someone who doesn't understand those view points. Those characters are supposed to be religious (Bartlett) and moderately conservative (McAvoy) but do nothing but denigrate their own supposed world views.

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Yea I mean Sorkin is clearly a democrat and probably not religious. He uses having Will as a registered Republican as a way to kind of say "No it's not a leaning left show because our main character is a Republican."

But I feel like both shows did a good job of not focusing on being negative to the other party. In West Wing the Republican he ran against was a very likeable character and good guy, and his Republican VP was made out to be a good guy/character. They also essentially admitted that they didn't accomplish anything they wanted to in his first 4 years in office. The Newsroom focused much more on the stories than the politics. BP oil spill, election nights, bin Ladens death, etc.

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Couldn’t get halfway through the second once the Covid storyline

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Shows that date themselves (covid being the worst example) is one of my biggest pet peeves in television.

well, i stopped midway through season 2...couldn't take it