“The Morning โShow” Season 4 Struggles to Balance New Faces with Lingering Plotlines, Critics Say
Cupertino, CA – April 3, 2024 – apple TV+’s “The Morning Show” returned for its fourth season, but early reviewsโ suggest the latest โinstallment is weighed down by an โoverstuffed cast and a reluctance to resolve โฃpast storylines, overshadowing the potential of its new additions. Whileโข veteran characters are finally receivingโฃ more considerable advancement, critics argue the season feels increasingly chaotic and less compelling than previous iterations.
The review highlights the challenge of integratingโค new players into the establishedโฃ dynamic, โฃciting โneedless revisits to concluded relationships like that of Alex Levy โandโ her former partner, Paul Marks (Jonโข Hamm). The reappearance of Alex’s former deputy, Chip (Mark Duplass), now a documentary filmmaker, alongsideโ Bradley in an environmental investigationโ – described asโ reminiscent of “erin Brockovich” – also โฃdrew criticism. The return โof a previously departed character, altered in personality, was questioned, with reviewers asking whyโ a new character wasn’t createdโข rather.
Aโฃ meaningful issue, according to the review, is theโ awkward attempt to retroactively establish the importance of โคthe character โคCeline โขwithin the โfictional media company’s structure. Meanwhile, characters Harper and Irons experience inconsistent screen time,โฃ and the character of โขBro, while โฃreceiving development, is โขcharacterized as โฃa collectionโฃ of tropes.Newcomer Pierre, recently featured in “Ruby Ridge,” is notedโ as being primarily utilized for aesthetic appeal.
Though,the season’s โคstrongest moments reportedly come from finally giving โคmore focus to established characters โKaren Pittman’s Mia and Nicole beharie’s Chris. โThe series, wich has consistently addressed racial inequity, appears to be “walking theโ walk” this season by providing these actors with โคopportunities to step into more โprominent roles.Chris’s storyline benefits fromโค the timing of the Olympics, while Miaโค gains more prominence โfollowing Pittman’sโ departure โขfrom “And just Like โคThat,” a series whose recentโ finale has left a void in the “hatewatch with wine” television landscape.
Despite these improvements, the review concludes thatโ “The Morning Show” remains a “compulsively watchable, campy kindโ of mess,” with Season 4 amplifying the chaos rather than refining it.
The โฃfirst episode of โข”The Morning Show” Season 4 is currently streaming โฃon Apple TV+, with subsequent episodes airing weekly on Wednesdays.