Isn’t it ironic? Don’t you think? Another week, another episode of Apple TV+’s liberal drama The Morning Show pushing so much leftist propaganda, we can’t even fit all of it into one article. But it was their portrayal of conservatives as dangerous, violent and threatening while at the same time claiming it’s okay for liberals to break the law “for the greater good,” because “the ends justify the means” that was most concerning.
Episode 2, “The Revolution Will Be Televised,” also featured its typical hatred of white men and internalizing “the patriarchy” as UBN’s CEO Stella (Greta Lee) meets with disgraced former network president Cory (Billy Crudup), who is desperate to obtain funding for his new movie production:
Cory: One f*cking workplace misconduct investigation, and suddenly I'm Harvey Weinstein. You know that's not me. You take up smoking? The job shreds you. Believe me, I know.
Stella: Cory, I can't help you.
Cory: After two rounds of layoffs, your stock prices are more precarious than a deep dive on the Titan sub. You can survive those god-awful quarterly earnings calls with some draconian belt tightening, but your actual constituents, the audience, they want to be numbed from the hellscape that is America 2024. They don't want content. They want a f*cking escape hatch, and I am offering you the kind of event movie that drives subscriber numbers and parks eyeballs in front of the last fledgling embers of a formerly great media empire.
Bartender: Martini.
Stella: Thank you. Thanks, but I'll pass. Everything at UBN is copacetic, okay?
Cory: Okay. Careful, because your nose is growing. I saw Alex yesterday. It sounds like the drama at the network is juicier than the drama on the network. I can help you, Stella. I could be a sounding board, discreetly.
Stella: Alex just ran to Daddy because she's internalized the patriarchy.
Cory: You only have that job because of me. And if you want to keep it, maybe you should listen to me.
Stella: It hurts, doesn't it? That the whole world keeps spinning without you. You're played out, Cory. Everybody knows it... but you.
Way to stick it to the man, Stella! #eyeroll It’s not just the white male “patriarchy” the show hates, though. They made sure to include white women, too, as Stella complains to her lover that she’s exhausted from “managing these rich white people”:
Stella: Alex went to see Cory.
Miles: She knows she could be out by the end of the week. She's scared.
Stella: Now Cory's breathing down my neck. He wants money for his movie. It's so exhausting managing these rich white people. How do you do it?
Miles: 10,000 hours, I married in. Look, I can't fix racism. But, uh, I might be able to get Cory off your ass.
Stella: How?
Miles: Trust me. We go way back. I know where all the bodies are.
Miles (Aaron Pierre) is married to UBN’s president and board member Celine (Marion Cotillard) who is white.
Meanwhile, Alex (Jennifer Aniston) finds herself in the middle of a protest as people chant, “Keep your carbon in the soil! No more coal! No more oil!” One protester throws oil on her as they shout, “F*ck the media!” Umm, when have leftist environmentalists ever hated the MSM?
Alex then has an exchange with the group’s leader:
Leader: “This summit is a front for Big Oil! It's a cover to sell drilling contracts! Look at International Allied Petroleum. Their CEO, Zeke Pemberton, hides his company's pollution behind these sham summits. Their stock price gets a bump, and he takes home over a hundred million a year.”
Alex: But this is a summit for renewable energy, so where are you sourcing your greenwashing claims? What is your evidence?
Leader: We have receipts. There are internal documents.
Alex: Well, then, why are you shutting the entire city down? Why don't you just publish the documents?
Leader: Because no one believes us. No one f*cking listens.
Later, the show’s cartoonish conservative talk show host Bro Hartman (Boyd Holbrook) praises Alex for verifying the documents as reactions from X appear at the bottom of the screen. One reaction, apparently from a conservative, reads, “@NoBetaZone These ecofreaks trying to take my F-150 are gonna meet my 45!”
Seriously? The Morning Show didn’t think that little gem should be edited out before airing it considering the current climate in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination? Very poor taste, to say the absolute least.
Adding insult to literal injury, the writers pushed the disturbing message that the liberal environmentalists were justified in breaking the law because it was for “the greater good”:
Alex: In a world of deepfakes, conspiracies, and corporate propaganda machines, I mean, we have to question everything that we see and we hear now more than ever. And that's what these protesters were doing.
Yanko: Look, I'm just going to say this, and you both know me, I've been shouting about climate change for years now. But I mean, come on, Alex, I mean stopping traffic and vandalizing property, that can't be the answer, right?
Alex: Understood, but when no one is taking real action, is breaking the law justifiable for the greater good?
Yanko: So, the ends justify the means? Let's take a look at what happened yesterday, okay? And look, I see what you mean. No, it's a complicated situation.
We know these scenes were written before Kirk’s assassination, but again, did the show really think airing such messaging was a good idea right now? Or anytime, really, when there are unhinged people becoming radicalized to the point of murdering their political opponents for what they believe is “the greater good?”
At the very least, Apple TV+ should have delayed the episode as they did with Jessica Chastain’s upcoming series, The Savant, which some are saying paints conservatives as dangerous and politically violent.
By the end of the episode, Cory ends up exacting revenge on Stella after discovering her affair with Miles, and the scene concludes with an angry exclamation of Jesus's name and a mockery of His Resurrection:
Stella: Cory, it's getting kind of sad, actually. You scratching at the door just begging to be let back in.
Cory: Hey, before you finish that thought, I know you're f*cking Miles. As in the husband of the president of the board of the company for which you serve as CEO. I've got your lighter. You left it at the loft. I also cornered the building super. He said he's seen you there a dozen times. I'm gonna take your silence as confirmation.
Stella: I had your back when Paul was coming after you. Does that mean anything?
Cory: Oh, that was a long time ago.
Stella: What do you want, Cory? Money for your movie?
Cory: Oh, no, Stella. My price has gone up. I want an overall deal at UBN. Development money, office suite, a whole slate.
Stella: Jesus Christ!
Cory [with a dramatic closeup]: He is risen!
In just this one episode, Jesus’s name was blasphemed nine times, mostly by Aniston’s character Alex, who uttered it three times in under a minute in one scene alone. That was cringeworthy enough.
But to close out the episode by making light of one of the most significant tenets of the Christian faith, Jesus’s Resurrection, is extremely offensive.
Unfortunately, there are still eight episodes left this season, and we have no doubt they’ll continue packing each one with even more offensive liberal propaganda.
