Two years ago, Apple made a huge american drama.
The characters are cool enough that some people call it the workplace version of Deadly Woman.
The story is vicious enough, and some people think it is comparable to "Newsroom".
Now, the second season has finally returned.
Only one episode was broadcast, and Douban opened with a score of 8.9.
The tough start hints at the arrival of another bloody storm.
Today, Uncle Fish wants to talk to you about it-
The second season of the Morning News
The Morning Show Season 2
Two years ago, the Morning News was launched.
Some people said that this is a drama that we can't make.
There are also people who boldly imagine how domestic dramas will be remade:
Dulala promotion + I fell in love with my boss.
Yes, this is another exemplary portrayal of professional women.
As the poster shows, two torch-eyed, breezy female characters occupy the absolute c position.
They are also the absolute core of the show.
The two heroines are also representatives of two generations of American sweethearts.
One is jennifer Aniston, who is familiar to everyone in "Friends".
The other was Reese Witherspoon, who was on fire in her early years with "The Lawmaker" fire.
The two goddesses are now very old.
However, the temperament is still outstanding, and the charm of a smile is full of charm.
And the two roles they play are even more impressive.
First of all, it is the presiding officer of the television network -
Alex (Jennifer Aniston).
Her partner, Mitchell (Steve Carell), runs The Morning News, which has always been a favorite of American audiences.
After 15 years of hosting careers, they became "national idols".
However, a breaking news broke the otherwise smooth business.
Mitch was involved in the "METOO movement" that was in full swing at the time, and was accused of sexual harassment by several female subordinates.
The incident quickly fermented, and Mitch was fired.
The news was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.
Alex, as a partner, had to broadcast the news alone during the day's live broadcast.
At the same time, on behalf of the program team, I apologize to all viewers.
This incident becomes the beginning of the whole story.
Alex used wisdom and courage to alleviate the negative impact of the show.
But that didn't win her over from the TV station's top brass.
Is Alex's business ability not good?
On the contrary, her work is almost impeccable.
On-the-spot response, live interviews, she can always be the one who controls the whole scene.
The real problem is not business ability, but external charm.
Alex was first loved by audiences because of the image of the "Sweetheart of America" she created when she was young.
And now it's no better than it was then.
15 years on, plus the fact that she started work at 3:30 a.m. all year round, her face has long been showing aging.
In the eyes of the top, Alex can no longer bring sexual fantasies to the audience.
After losing the golden partner, there is no value.
The career is not smooth, and the family is not worried.
The special nature of her work prevents her from spending time with her family.
The daughter is not intimate and the husband wants a divorce.
Alex's life was a mess.
But Alex was not depressed.
It's about picking yourself up and fighting to keep your career.
She finished the apology news on the front foot and discussed the solution with the team on the back foot.
Hope to mold himself as a feminist supporter.
Then turn the crisis into a turning point and let your career make a smooth transition.
Alex is not as silly and sweet as everyone thinks, and she is not an idealized media person.
She will not look ahead and look back, thinking about the old feelings, but very pragmatic and sharp.
At present, the script in her hand is to try to survive in the workplace struggle.
Compared to Alex's realistic flexibility.
The other heroine, Bradley (Reese Witherspoon), is much more pure and radical.
She has been a journalist for more than a decade, fierce and hot-tempered.
But because of this, the work hits a wall everywhere and is always unsatisfactory.
The unit has changed one after another, and the juniors who entered Taiwan three years later are mixed better than her.
However, time comes and goes.
Because of a high-language interview video, Bradley suddenly became popular all over the Internet.
He was also mistakenly invited to be an interview guest of the Morning News.
Subsequently, he was favored by the TV station executives and became the candidate to succeed Alex.
Alex is worthy of the old jianghu.
Seeing a strong competitor, she chose to take the initiative and came to a win-win game.
Preemptively announced that Bradley would be her new partner.
As a result, the Morning News became a double female host.
Bradley is a "master of human sobriety".
She knew that her superiority was nothing more than a pawn in the struggle at the top.
But she is not a well-behaved girl who can be manipulated, but has become a "time bomb" in the show.
For example, when interviewing the victims of the Mitchell incident, she did not follow the script that had been written in advance.
Instead, I wanted to take this opportunity to dig up the black material of my own TV station.
Such an out-of-the-box move made many people, including Alex, uneasy.
Worried about her ruining the Morning News.
But there are also high-risers who appreciate her style.
He thought that only such a rebellious performance could shake Alex's position.
This fire of the cause is still a power struggle in the end.
As a workplace heroine drama, the excitement of "Morning News" is not just to create a cool feeling of female counterattack or tearing.
Moreover, through the enterprising and struggle of the two female protagonists in the media industry, the unspeakable dilemma common to women in the workplace is presented.
The play uses a double female lead line.
The styles of the two are very different.
One seeks stability, is cautious and cautious, and is sleek in the world.
One is truth-seeking, desperate, digging deep into the material.
But at the same time, they are all similar.
They are all independent and strong, with high business standards and great professionalism.
There is a mutual understanding of the dilemmas that women suffer in the workplace.
The topic of sexual assault in the workplace also runs through the whole.
The reason why the host Mitch was able to unscrupulously inflict aggression on multiple subordinates.
Everything depends on the company environment behind the connivance.
The entire "Morning News" program team can not escape the blame.
When a female employee who has been sexually assaulted reports to a higher authority.
The top brass did not apologize or punish the person concerned, but immediately promoted her.
This clearly shows the acquiescence of the top level in this regard.
"The greatest tragedy of society is not the arrogance of bad people, but the excessive silence of good people."
Everybody knows it, but everybody ignores it.
This is why there is such a collective silence environment, which indirectly encourages the arrogance of the perpetrators.
It is even more to push the victims further into the abyss.
And even ace hosts like Alex still face pressure from male executives.
In the end, it was only by taking out the American audience that I won back my face.
She did not have sexual violence in her body.
But such blatant suppression in the workplace, the violence of the departure field is not far away.
Of course, as a workplace drama focusing on the media industry.
It also focuses not only on a women's perspective, but also scans the entire media industry.
Among them, it is particularly centered on the metoo event, and the phenomenon of different levels is strung together.
There has been a lot of talk about Weinstein, celebrity sexual assault and other topics.
The Morning News took a different approach, adopting a relatively objective perspective throughout the process.
Let the audience follow the characters who also do not know the truth and examine the incident together.
The first is Alex.
As a pillar, Alex's reaction to the Mitch incident is very subtle.
Her initial live broadcast revealed some concern about mitch's affair without beating him to death.
Because out of years of contact with his partner, I don't believe that he is a person who can commit a crime.
This is followed by Mitch.
The play gives Mitch plenty of room for expression.
When the whole network attacked him, he was shouting injustice.
On the one hand, there are endless accusations, and on the other hand, there are tearful accusations.
Whether it is unjust or not, the audience is also confused.
Mitchell only said that cheating and one-night stands were also illegal.
From beginning to end, MiChu is using his professional qualities and expressing beautiful points of view to justify his innocence.
He even saw the "metoo movement" as a persecution of men and reduced himself to it.
A statement that "if I don't seek justice for myself, I will be finished" seems to be justified.
This also reflects the often confused core issue in the media industry:
Do you believe the truth, or do you believe in opinion?
No matter how brilliantly Mitchell's point of view is.
When the truth finally came out, Mitchie's "righteous words" all turned into ugly faces.
In addition to talking about big events like "METOO".
The Morning News also attempts to explore other issues about the media or public opinion.
For example, Bradley, although he is capable, has never been promoted because of his personality.
But unexpectedly because of a short video that angered passers-by, it caught fire.
Such a small thing punctures the absurdity of this society's fame in one fell swoop.
For example, the little brother who was intimidated by Bradley in this video is also typical.
Came to the demonstration, but did not know why.
Asked why he was protesting, he couldn't say why.
I was in a hurry when I was asked, and I just wanted to push and shove.
Similar people and things emerge in reality.
They don't care about the truth of the incident, they only care about how much fun there is.
Get involved, just because you can take the opportunity to vent your emotions.
And that's exactly what the web is today.
More concerned with emotions than with real positions.
"They know the news the way they want, and they add to the fire as much as they want."
That's where the show is interesting.
Instead of adopting a one-sided political correctness, it presents people from different positions in the movement from a more diverse perspective.
The content shown in this way is more comprehensive and more realistic.
Subtly, it also makes the audience think -
What exactly is the value of news?
What is the meaning of movement?
Nor does the Morning News give a standard answer to this.
Instead, it gives all the judgment to the audience.
Perhaps, the truth of journalism itself is difficult to define.
Everything depends on different perspectives of observation and understanding.
There is a detail in the first season that seems to be interesting today.
The characters in the play lament that 2019 is bad.
And outside of the show, we all know that the worst year that follows has just begun.
In the second season, the timeline officially enters 2020, and it will inevitably usher in another big event -
COVID-19.
How will the follow-up plot develop, Uncle Fish has been impatient.