This is one fun – and sometimes bonkers — show.

About four episodes into the new season of Apple TV+’s The Morning Show, I stopped expecting it to have the qualities of a prestige television series—narrative complexity, emotional resonance, logic—and began simply appreciating it for what it is: one of the most batshit-expensive soap operas ever made. ... If you can meet The Morning Show on those terms, its second season is quite a ride. ... The Morning Show is camp: earnest, schlocky, nonsensical drama that’s not ruined by its excess and ridiculousness, but redeemed by it.

Season 2 again enters territory that is frequently too fraught to dissect in public without triggering knee-jerk responses — with all the risks that entails. And whether it holds together as the world falls apart is an open question. But “The Morning Show” most definitely succeeds at striking the balance between advancing its own personality-driven narrative and tackling topical issues in one entertaining drama.

The Morning Show sails very close to being quite interesting.

Compelling performers and their interpersonal storylines make The Morning Show watchable, even as the series’ lecturing threatens to push the audience out of reach.

The Morning Show isn’t awful, but it does awful things. The second season, through eight episodes — all 10 were sent to critics, but I ran out of either time or interest— hasn’t improved from an already inconsistent first season.

The 10-episode second season just doubles down on the failures of its precursor without the compensatory empathy for or interest in victims. ... Those who missed the preachy sanctimony of HBO’s “The Newsroom” will find much of it recycled here.

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Painful season of television. The writers on this show should have just left Covid alone to save us from such a ridiculous and tone-deaf depiction of a devastating event in human history.

Painfully over dramatic, continuing to fail to live up to the promise of the earlier episodes of the first season.

Clearly they rewrote season 2 so they could shove more covid and political baloney. I’m more interested to see what the original script was for season 2. This was just plain terrible not a fan.