Albert Kenneth Carrozza

¨The Morning Show¨- (season one) is an intense, relevant, highly entertaining program with a star-studded cast (many of them putting forth some of their greatest career performances in this series). Linear and meaningful storytelling with exciting and shocking twists and turns and a viable plot that reaches satisfiable conclusion in the final tenth episode though allows the show to move forward into its second season. Oh, but the themes, how they are presented can lead to moral self-examination after staunchly feeling otherwise. Amidst it all is scenario of New York City, media living, urban wealth and structures of old versus the assimilation of new forms of empowerment. All the technical stuff, cinematography, technology and music selection is first rate, cutting edge, and original like the show unpredictable and the characters take time with them to understand them for who they are as we meet them all in a period of distress and now a wild-card play: Bradley Jackson. Many noble characters forced to make hard fast decisions in conflicting environments within the same organization upholding a powerful medium in a time of change versus conservatism, judged by ratings, and ofter times haunting realities. Jennifer Anniston is so solid in her role as Morning Show host Alex Levy. Billy Crudup adds a zany genius element as Cory Ellison. Karen Pittman character Mia Jordan adds a great stability as Mark Drupal Charlie "Chip" Black had in the center of it all in the first season, Reese Witherspoon as Bradley Jackson is a perfect selection for her role, GuGu Mabatha Raw somehow masters the complex role of Hannah Shoenfeld, Nestor Carbonell is excellent as Yanko Flores who is most privately deep and passionate about knowledge in his field yet often limited in his position as a weatherman anchor and unlucky in his love for younger Claire Conway played with brilliance by Bel Powley. Martin Short puts on a performance that is outright scary, Steve Carell is his reliable great, the list goes on.......

Real nice movie. Having spent lots of time back in the day around 86th street brought about genuine feelings of nostalgia. Beyond that personal attraction the movie was a nice blend of reality, idealism, and succeeds in showing the juxtaposition of worlds and the contrasts in the pain and as to also opportunity. That said the strength of the movie is the cast (and wonderful plot). Its a feel good movie and inspirational. Kevin Hart was just fantastic. His character's chemistry in the film with the one played by Bryan Cranston was special: somehow serious and real while also comforting, whimsical, funny, enjoyable. Nicole Kidman delivered as she always does with and alongside portrayals by Golshifteh Farahani, Aja Naomi King and a small host of actors playing secondary role characters central to films tone. Each part seamlessly transitions to the next with 'less think' and more 'rational feel', and the one after the initial response to the party is powerful and worth the price of admission. Real nice movie.