I loved ep 10, and if every episode of The Morning News was as good as ep 10, I would love this show too.
Before talking about the whole show, why I liked episode 10, I can't count how many times I've seen tears and heart throbbing.
Hannah's breakdown after a nightmare of memories in front of Bradley. Bradley in front of Chip for witnessing Hannah's collapse after collapse. Hannah's chilling strings after taking drugs and committing suicide in an apartment. When the news of Hannah's death was announced, mute dropped all voices, and the camera swept across the faces of disbelief, instant collapse, hugging and comforting each other under the piano music. After the announcement, Bradley left his boss's hypocritical reassurance speech ("empty" in Alex's words), numb to the point of grief and numbness. A symphony sounded when Bradley decided to fight back. Chip and Mitch, two New York "fine upper class" men, were embarrassed, brutal, gaffe, and hysterical scolding each other in the lobby. Alex's gaffe during the live broadcast. Fred rushed to the studio when he was revealed, but was locked out, and the shutters inside were hastily pulled down. All the women behind the camera nodded and wiped away tears as Alex spoke. The abruptly intercepted live feed and high-frequency beeps as Bradley speaks. Mitch sat empty in his living room, his face bruised from being beaten. End credits play.
Just watching the first 9 episodes, TMS is substandard in my opinion. The theme is sexual misconduct in the workplace and abuse of high-level power and corruption, but it has to add too many branches in 9 hours. It can be seen that all the branches are brought together in the last episode, and the effect is also amazing. But still, the sub-lines are too long, and the rhythm between the main line and the sub-line, the sub-line and the sub-line is not good, I have a lot of parts in each episode that it is difficult to focus. Therefore, the whole place that should make the show shine is constantly being cut, interrupted and submerged.
Of course, being overwhelmed doesn't mean the subject is bad. When I wrote The Capture, I said that if I dare to write, shoot and broadcast, I admire it. Irrationally speaking, Mitch is such a typical character that I want to blow his dog head off when he opens his mouth. There is a mix of dog man's classic quotations on Weibo, which is almost the essence of the whole play. Surprisingly, this drama about sexual harassment starts with the perpetrator. Starting from episode 1, he smashed his own TV with a golf club, shouting "They are all willing", and the perpetrators from beginning to end regarded themselves as "victims" and "innocents". Who doesn't want to slap him on the screen while watching Mitch spit out "she took advantage of me to get a promotion"? It wasn't until the middle of the episode that the first real victim was long overdue, publicly telling the story on the live broadcast, and Bradley irritated the upper echelons by asking the questions on his own, and the entire network began to get excited about it. A full 9 episodes (plus some mess) foreshadowing finally pushed the whole show to its peak and climax under the almost tearful accusations from Alex and Bradley in front of the camera. I can give TMS a high score for this core value for episode 10's "He".
Just mention the journalism involved. True stories are precious, and true voices are rare. It would be much better to write a single story about the sadness and struggles behind this industry than to rub it into another huge theme. The part of going to LA to report on the wildfire was actually really exciting.
Episode 10 appeared many times in the streets of New York, some late at night, some busy in the early morning, some busy during the day. From NYC where nobody gives a fuck about you, to everyone on the UBS network, nobody is pure good or evil. Chip said before Bradley's collapse that no one's motives are 100 percent pure. Alex, Bradley, Chip, Cory, Hannah, Claire, Yanko...everyone is alive, shiny and annoying at the same time, with their own fucked up problems. There's no way you can get out of the way and judge their behavior from the third person, holding hands high above the ground (except for Mitch, the scumbag (of course the TV series gave him his perspective. Every little character matters, maybe that's why the writers gave them every So many people write so much...?
To be honest I don't like the character of Alex, she's not real compared to Bradley. She was no longer the Alex Levy in front of the camera decades ago, but she found that the mask could no longer be lifted. So after gradually losing control of my life and career, I internalized into moody, anxious and angry, forgetting how to live normally and love normally. Even before the live broadcast of episode 10 was revealed, she was still cursing in front of passers-by and gaffe in front of the camera, requiring Bradley to coax her back into the live broadcast room. Not only is it not true, she is far inferior to Bradley in terms of business ability and emotional control, even if the latter was once a reporter famous for a video of himself yelling at passers-by. But Bradley's emotions are out of control, but it comes from her truth. Because of Rachel, I still like Jennifer Aniston, but JA's acting still has Rachel's feeling from time to time. All emotions are shown by frowning and grinning, and the audience will be tired, ah sister.
Bradley's role is actually quite ingenious. A very long first-in-before-you-yang can make her the most true to herself and her career role in the whole play. After inexplicably becoming ALex's new partner, she was involved in countless power struggles, and she still insisted on what she thinks is right, even though she knew she would get into endless trouble. In journalism, broadcasting real news sometimes equals to offend high-level officials. Most of the time in the play, she is helpless, unconvinced, unwilling to compromise, a thorn in the eyes and a thorn in the flesh. Among all the characters who walk in the gray area, she brings the most unknowns and troubles, but she is also the representative who dares to challenge the authority. (Although I hate to admit it, Reese's acting and Bradley's hair and makeup are so much more pleasing than Jennifer Aniston's Alex...
One of the superfluous spurs mentioned earlier is the useless back-and-forth between Alex and Bradley. It is true that the different personalities and working styles of the two will bring dramatic conflicts and contradictions, but it is really unnecessary for you to push and pull 10 episodes back and forth... The golden setting of the two heroines is not for you to show the fickleness and jealousy of women , intrigue and quarrel OK? The short-lived woman power is not pleasing enough.
Talk about supporting roles. At first I liked Hannah very much, a determined and capable professional woman worthy of her position. The irony, however, is that the position she deserves was brought about by the reluctance of sex, and this "reluctance" brought her to death. My tears are almost sticking to this character, and the gray lips after suicide are embarrassing. I can't stand Claire and Yanko's office romance. I can understand that it is to set the stage for the subsequent plot, such as Claire finding out that Hannah committed suicide, Claire and Yanko publicly hugging and so on. But I can only describe these excessive and unnecessary side plots with less effort. Nobody really cares. The role of Cory is very delicate, and he should be the most difficult person to figure out his position and good and bad sides. But just because his motives are not pure, he can walk on both sides. It doesn't matter if he is good or bad, what matters is where his interests lie. Are Selfish People Bad People? What if he did good things for his own benefit? When he does bad things for his own benefit again, does the good things he did before count?
TMS portrays all beings in a great way. In particular, Hannah, who was on prescription drugs, swept across at the end of episode 6 (probably), succinctly laid the fuse for the bombing of the ending.
Finally, praise the soundtrack. The Nemesis at the beginning, the Creep in episode 1, and the string piano and symphony in episode 10 can directly penetrate your heart with the plot. It's so good that I can notice it outside the plot, something I haven't experienced when watching other dramas.
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