Season 1 | show | 2019| S1 | Official Featurette | dHNzX3JfbXIwNkxJOWNJ
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00:00We are ripe and ready for this conversation, and it's heartbreakingly honest.
00:07It's been one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life.
00:12Standby A, eight seconds to you.
00:15This show is sharp and insightful and ultimately very human.
00:21Three, two, start your move, cue her.
00:26Good morning.
00:30Our show, The Morning Show, is really set in the world of morning television.
00:33The world of the anchors and the news and all of the people that wake you up in the
00:38mornings.
00:39There's just this adrenalized, very ambitious and almost Machiavellian energy.
00:44The anxiety, fear of losing your position, desire to come out on top, this shows me what
00:50this world is.
00:52Mitch and Alex, they are the darlings of morning TV.
00:55They're incredibly close friends, and there's a love between them.
00:59Mitch, that's my on-air partner, my TV husband.
01:02We know more about each other than me and my husband and he and his wife.
01:07But it's inevitable that they have some difficult and rocky times.
01:11I'm sorry.
01:12Me too.
01:13Mitch, he's so charming and likable.
01:16He doesn't really realize the power and its effect on other people.
01:20I mean, he does bad things, and I think it's disconcerting, but I love the fact that it's
01:24so gray and complicated.
01:25He's a very flawed human being, but he's a human being.
01:29You are my best friend.
01:31You're like a part of me.
01:32Me too, honey.
01:33Alex Levy has been at The Morning Show for 17 years, but her entire world has fallen
01:38apart, and she's grasping to get control of her life again.
01:41I just need to be able to control the narrative so that I'm not written out of it.
01:46My relevance is at stake here.
01:48Everything that I live for is all in this show, and she's fighting for her life.
01:53I'm not closing without co-host approval.
01:55Well, I'm sorry to hear that, because you're not getting it.
01:58So Bradley, what is your story?
02:01I don't fit the mold.
02:02What mold is that?
02:03Any mold, really.
02:04Bradley Jackson comes in and completely stirs the pot.
02:08She has a tendency to not think before she speaks.
02:12What do you know?
02:13How many jobs have been lost in the last 10 years?
02:14I don't know.
02:15Huh?
02:16I don't know.
02:17Thousands!
02:18So when she gets the opportunity to be on The Morning Show, she's determined to sort
02:21of make the best of that.
02:22We want to interview you.
02:24The Morning Show.
02:25Your words spoke to America.
02:28These characters go on a long journey together in a very short period of time.
02:33How they get there is fascinating.
02:34So you're a diehard reporter.
02:37The truth matters to me.
02:38The truth is what we are all striving for.
02:42Yeah.
02:43There's someone younger and who has tapped into her fearlessness and her quest for the
02:47truth.
02:48What Bradley says resonates within Alex, but she's also terrified of it.
02:52These two complicated women in a complicated work environment are going to eventually collide.
02:58And it's a world that is often dark, but also there's definitely a beating heart in it.
03:04And I think a hope.
03:06You all are so convinced that you are the rightful owner of all of the power that it
03:10doesn't even occur to you that someone else could be in the driver's seat.
03:14I think it's really powerful and emotional.
03:18I gave up everything for this show.
03:22Every chance of having a normal life.
03:24I think it's really about a reckoning, realizing that it's time for change.