SERIES PREMIERE: This is the big Apple TV+ flagship program. Steve Carell, Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon play rising and falling stars in the highly competitive world of morning television. I don’t fault the acting, but the writing is so predictable, and the characters so caricatured and emptily preachy, that this is not a Morning Show I’d bother to watch. Yet Apple TV+ has given it a two-year, 20-episode commitment already, and thrown more money at it than, perhaps, any other TV series ever made. For my full review on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, which includes clips from several of the streaming service’s new offerings, listen to today’s show, or stop by later at the Fresh Air website. And for reviews here at TV Worth Watching, see Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes and David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

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Gooball Jones

Wow, not sure if you watched the same show, but I thought just the opposite of your review. The writing it some of the best I've seen in a LOOONG time. These are 3 dimensional characters that aren't the stereotypical anything. You may think they're going to be like that, then they do a complete different take on something....lead with two very strong women in the center. Not to mention talking about and taking a strong look at Me Too.

I don't fault your review. Perhaps it's addressing subjects you're not comfortable with. But I always wonder what is going on in the head of a critic when they watch something and how it colors their review. It would be interesting to see this from the perspective of a woman critic instead.

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