The Morning Show Season 3
review by Bobby Blakey
In 2019 Apple TV+ debuted the new series The Morning Show inspired by the book Top of the Morning by Brian Stetler and meshed in numerous elements of the MeToo movement and the ramifications of it all. Thes series has gone onto four seasons with a fifth and final season coming soon, the show features a stellar cast including Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Billy Crudup, Nestor Carbonell, Mark Duplass, and Steve Carrell.
The Morning Show follows Alex Levy whose career is shaken after her co-anchor’s scandal. As rising reporter Bradley Jackson challenges the status quo, both navigate fierce rivalries, shifting loyalties, and power struggles amid a turbulent newsroom and evolving media landscape.
Season three sees Alex and Bradley still working at UBA, but now on different primetime slots. Alex hosts TMS alongside Yanko and their new co-host Christine. Bradley has moved on from TMS, now leading the evening news. Still, fate has ways of bringing them together once again. Only this time around, it’s under the most stressful of circumstances, as UBA is on the edge of financial ruin. Aiming to save UBA’s streaming platform and carry on as CEO, Cory plots for billionaire Paul Marks to buy the network.
After the chaos of the first two seasons, we join the characters all in different places in their careers as well as the network working to make it all work. As expected, there are new events that bring them all back onto each other’s radar. This season shifts focus to more of the issues within the struggling network and its future. This opens the doors to shift the focus more on how the characters plan the future,
backstabbing, and plenty of twists and turns. This allows it to be more of a corporate drama within the world of the news with the sharks circling and everyone looking out for themselves. This opens the door for those great twists you hope happen in the final moments.
The cast continues to be great with both Aniston and Witherspoon still fantastic together. They play two sides of the same coin and find themselves at odds and allies through all the insanity that unfolds. The rest of the cast get more depth and storylines giving the show a bigger ensemble vibe than it did int eh beginning of the series. The shake-up with all these characters throughout three seasons gives the show a different tone that I think worked to keep it feeling familiar but not just rehashing the same thing. The world of news is already evolving, and the show did a good job evolving with it.
There are moments in the show that continues to get redundant with the back and fourths in relationships. Like most shows like this it gets tired with the characters being enemies, then friends then turning on each other again. I know that is par for the course but hope they would find that lane to allow you to invest in these relationships a bit longer before blowing them up once again in your face. At least there are several that come to a head and plays into the actual narrative of where it goes for the network’s future.
I really enjoyed this new season and looking forward to diving into more to see where The Morning Show crew go from here with season 4 and its final upcoming 5th season. Grab your copy of The Morning Show Season 3 available now on DVD from Fifth Season and Apple TV+.