62 Macworld • December 2019FEATURE
The Morning Show
The Morning Show starts off as though it rushed to
work without its morning coffee. That may partly be
because the script was retrofitted to address the
#MeToo moment even though it was originally built
around Brian Stelter’s 2013 nonfiction book Top of
the Morning, which focused on the cutthroat world
of morning television. In the first three episodes, we
see excellent performances from Jennifer Aniston,
Steve Carell, and Reese Witherspoon (along with
a load of Apple product placements), but the plot
struggles to find a direction.
Events unfolding by the end of the third episode,
though, suggest The Morning Show is about to find
its way – and quickly at that. It maintains dramatic