'The Morning Show' S2E8: Confirmations
And for what? To demand he confirm they didn't bang each together like Maggie's (Marcia Gay Harden) upcoming book alleges, when we all know since Season 1 that they did. The fact she could be exposed to Covid 19 didn't even bother her, all she wanted was that damned confirmation. Paola (Valeria Golino), after the initial awkwardness, wisely kept out of the way while the two ex colleagues trash things out and even share a dance. That is until Mitchell's past misdeeds spring up once again in the news about Maggie Brener's upcoming time, only this time, an excerpt about Mitch especially targetting women of colour, causing Alex TO abruptly leave for the airport. WHO exactly is going to read that questionable book???
Mitch and Paola finally became intimate, with Paola admitting she didn't delete his private interview she recorded because it would be all that she had left of him if she never saw him again, which now turned out to be a major foreshadowing. Because the final scene left viewers open mouthed as we watched Mitch-who went out to get cigarettes for her-crash his car off the road over a cliff.
Leaving us all in shock, Mitch looked eerily calm before the screen went black and raised three questions; did he do it in purpose? Was he just accepting the inevitable? Did he SURVIVE the crash???
Hence the title of Episode 8- 'Confirmations', as in the world of Journalism, breaking stories MUST be confirmed before it's made public. The episode was both emotionally packed and frustrating as the viewers had to wait for more than half of the episode's run to know if Mitch survived the accident or not.
First there was poor Chip (Mark Duplass), who seemed to have aged 10 years since Episode 6- 'A Private Person', as he runs himself ragged trying to find Alex after Mia (Karen Pittman) demands her return, leaves a very angry tirade about Alex's selfish action and narcissistic character on her voicemail and later on has a falling out with his fiancé. You can't help but feel sorry for the guy, he has been getting it from all sides since Alex's disappearance and completely unappreciated.
A meeting at UBA about the damning exercpt from Maggie's upcoming book is interrupted when an Italian journalist calls to get their comment on Mitch's death from the car crash... WHICH he assumed they already knew about. Shocked by the news, word immediately spreads round the station, with Cory (Billy Crudup) once again demanding Alex's presence ("I don't care if she's in traction!") as UBA, anxious to be the first to break the news, wants Alex to announce the news. Which puts even more pressure on poor Cory, who in the course of his thorough search finds out Alex paid for a ticket to Italy; and a phonecall with an Italian nurse makes him unhappily assume Alex was dead too, which forces him to finally confess to Cory and Mia about Alex's whereabouts.
Mia, smarting over Maggie's book excerpt, has a heart-rending meltdown after she makes the announcement to the news crew. She was obviously torn between the humiliation she experienced from Mitch and the excerpt and grief over the man/false facade she fell hard for, who she has to sum up to the public. I have to say this, for a despised man who was bounced for sexual harassment, the ones who despised him, including Mia, are anything but happy at his supposed demise.
Bradley (Reese Witherspoon) got her own share of drama when her bipolar brother (who still hasn't flown home despite their quarrel) shows up at the station and not only embarrasses her but also asked the question what no one stopped to consider after hearing about Mitch, "Did he kill himself?" before he's thrown out by security. Bradley's situation is highly relatable and like Laura (Juliana Margulies) pointed out, sometimes we have to shed off the toxic people in our lives (even family) and focus on ourselves for once. It's not being self centred or cruel... it's being survivors.
Alex, once Chip finally finds her, is a wreck over after she's told the bad news and we get the confirmation at last, via a phone call from Alex to Paola, who had to identify Mitch's body at the hospital. Paola's grief was of sad resignation but Alex (Aniston in an Emmy winning performance) is basically heartbroken but manages to pull herself out of it to insist Chip drive her to Mitch's ex wife's house.
The scene between Alex and Chip in the car is brutal. Chip is mortified Alex heard his angry tirade on her voicemail but get pissed off and grade A frustrated when Alex lashes back at him for 'forgiving her' and accuses of being jealous of Mitch. Is this woman crazy? Why the hell would he be jealous of a sexual predator of all people? Yet Alex was right about one part, Chip does not have a spine. WHY should he apologise for the message when he has every right to be angry with her? Doing her own thing and not caring how her actions affect other people, it's always been 'me, me, me' with her... What a bitch!
Paige (who turns out to have known about Mitch's affair with Alex calmly tells Alex she and Mitch were exactly the same, which is true. Alex is a flawed human being yet keeps telling herself she's a good person while Mitch, despite what he did, said he wasn't a monster. Alex's excuse of "it only happened twice" was simply lame.
Alex now passing the torch to Bradley-having her break the news of Mitch's death instead--was the second good thing she did in that episode. And let's hope it's the real beginning of a postive change between them; we've hardly seen them together since Season 2 began and there are 2 episodes left.
What should we now expect to see in Episode 9?
Probably...
Mitch's funeral but who's going to organise it and will the UBA executives and staff attend?
The release of Maggie's book, but with Mitch now dead, will it be a bestseller? How much damage will it really do to Alex, Mia and the other people mentioned?
Paola, the last person to see Mitch alive, apparently fell in love with the broken, repentant man she saw. Will she release the private interview, delete it or just hand it over to UBA?
Will Chip resign? He should, because Alex and several others have really treated badly.
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