“There’s nothing sexy about consent,” one of Mitch’s friends (Martin Short) says to him and Mitch is duly horrified. I honestly couldn’t tell if the show believes the way Mitch thinks is abhorrent or if it’s trying to spark some sort of conversation among viewers. Here’s how our own Amy Amantagelo put it in her excellent pre-air review:Įven if this is just the way one character thinks, where there’s some sort of sliding scale of sexual aggression and misconduct, it’s an unsettling hypothesis to put forward. This is a series that has Steve Carrell’s Mitch Kessler say (in perfect earnestness), “First they came for the rapists” to another man in the second episode, and the show has so muddied the waters when it comes to that character in particular that it’s unclear whether or not he’s joking. There’s a lot that’s confusing and contradictory about The Morning Show, the supremely watchable, often frustrating flagship series of Apple TV+.