You’re not gonna believe this, but The Morning Show went to space

polygon.com:

It is generally a bad sign when a TV show or film franchise that has heretofore shown a complete lack of interest in space suddenly decides to go to space. This is one of the first things they teach you in screenwriting school, right after “enter late, leave early” and just before “you can always fix it in post, it’s no big deal.” It has been a little while since I was in school, but I’m pretty sure it was Dalton Trumbo himself that said, “Going to space will change the hierarchy of power in your story’s universe, and look at how well that worked for Black Adam or F9.” Space — it’s a bad idea! Unless you are The Morning Show. Then it’s when things really start to get good.

For those just joining us here in Morning Show land, the Apple TV Plus series has, for two whole seasons, basically not acknowledged space existed. It was mostly about The Issues, its first season tackling the fallout of a lead anchor’s sexual misconduct, and the second putting a wrap on that story while rolling into the COVID-19 pandemic. At first, the trip to space is part of this, as the show’s third season appears to take an interest in tech billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. Former in-universe Morning Show star Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) is scheduled to go into orbit with wealthy tycoon Paul Marks (Jon Hamm) for a story that suddenly gets extremely complicated. This isn’t a fake-out, either: Despite a last minute change-up where Alex cedes her rocket seat to frenemy Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon), The Morning Show really does go to space. And then it returns a very different kind of show.

Try as various showrunners have to steer The Morning Show into a relevant, ripped-from-the-headlines direction, the series has just never been