tragabigzanda wrote:Big jump in quality for The Morning Show just from the first to the second episode. My gut tells me that Crudup is gonna be the best part of this thing.
Listen to your gut
He's the best part. Of S1. Unfortunately...
Maybe he'll get better in S2. But so far they've really missed with his character.
tragabigzanda wrote:Big jump in quality for The Morning Show just from the first to the second episode. My gut tells me that Crudup is gonna be the best part of this thing.
Listen to your gut
He's the best part. Of S1. Unfortunately...
Maybe he'll get better in S2. But so far they've really missed with his character.
It’s only been two episodes
And I've only seen one of them!
But man what a bummer.
The second episode has him closer to his season one maverick style.
Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing!
- C. Montgomery Burns
tragabigzanda wrote:Big jump in quality for The Morning Show just from the first to the second episode. My gut tells me that Crudup is gonna be the best part of this thing.
Listen to your gut
He's the best part. Of S1. Unfortunately...
Maybe he'll get better in S2. But so far they've really missed with his character.
It’s only been two episodes
And I've only seen one of them!
But man what a bummer.
The second episode has him closer to his season one maverick style.
We watched the first two eps of season 2, and I’m running into that problem where I now hate every character. The whole dinner scene at Cory’s hotel room was painful.
tragabigzanda wrote:Big jump in quality for The Morning Show just from the first to the second episode. My gut tells me that Crudup is gonna be the best part of this thing.
Listen to your gut
He's the best part. Of S1. Unfortunately...
Maybe he'll get better in S2. But so far they've really missed with his character.
It’s only been two episodes
And I've only seen one of them!
But man what a bummer.
The second episode has him closer to his season one maverick style.
We watched the first two eps of season 2, and I’m running into that problem where I now hate every character. The whole dinner scene at Cory’s hotel room was painful.
You’re even hating Chip?
Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing!
- C. Montgomery Burns
tragabigzanda wrote:Big jump in quality for The Morning Show just from the first to the second episode. My gut tells me that Crudup is gonna be the best part of this thing.
Listen to your gut
He's the best part. Of S1. Unfortunately...
Maybe he'll get better in S2. But so far they've really missed with his character.
It’s only been two episodes
And I've only seen one of them!
But man what a bummer.
The second episode has him closer to his season one maverick style.
We watched the first two eps of season 2, and I’m running into that problem where I now hate every character. The whole dinner scene at Cory’s hotel room was painful.
You’re even hating Chip?
i guess chip's okay, but i just know he's gonna piss me off
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Last edited by tragabigzanda on Sat January 10, 2026 6:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:I think we finished the 4th or maybe 5th ep of Morning Shoe last night? The one where the former employee/accuser comes on the show for her interview with Jackson.
Some really great plotting and exploration of the subtleties of the MeToo movement. Loved the scene with Carrell meeting with Martin Short; then the interview with Carrell’s accuser; then the private interview between the producer and the investigator where she doesn’t pin anything on Carrell; the in-bed scene between Nestor Carbonell and the PA, where they discuss sexual power dynamics; then finally Witherspoon and Aniston facing off with Witherspoon saying “did you know?”
Within a couple episodes, they explore multiple layers of the issue without ever getting preaching, not without sacrificing the pace and plotting of what is essentially a TV network drama. Really great writing here.
