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Seriously, How Did The Morning Show Score All Those Emmy Nominations?
The butt of every “Reese Witherspoon in space” joke performed better in major categories than most critically lauded series on TV.
Free from the Carell plot and injected with the energy of a new showrunner, the show is lighter on its feet, sending Reese Witherspoon’s Bradley Jackson to space in its first episode as if to say “we know this isn’t too serious,” then spending the rest of the season satirizing the collapse of network television — all, of course, funded by a tech giant. The scenes with Aniston and her new love interest, Jon Hamm, spark with actual chemistry; Nicole Beharie gives a show-stealing performance as she grills Holland Taylor about racism at the network; and, yes, Bradley Jackson was at the storming of the Capitol. HBO spent a whole year cycling through programs like The Regime and The Sympathizer that failed to catch the fancy of Emmy voters at all (Robert Downey Jr.’s sole nomination for the latter hardly counts as a win for a show about a biracial Vietnamese refugee in 1970s America), much less at the level of Succession.
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