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Anonymous wrote:It’s not Juliana Margulies being pale that makes her so severe looking - I think her coloring is beautiful. She’s done something to her face and I can’t put my finger on it. She just looks extremely gaunt.

Yes, very severe looking.

It's called aging, when you're skinny and don't do fillers and botox.

Her hair color was awful too. You can’t do all black like that. It looked like shoe polish. Even my husband commented on it (and he’s no metrosexual).

But I have loved her since her ER days. Her voice soothes me. She is so calm in contrast to Bradley and I loved her NYC home with the snow on the patio. I’ll move in.

I still haven't forgiven Juliana Margulies for having so much friction with Archie Punjabi on The Good Wife that she wouldn't even appear in scenes with her such that their last scene on the show together where they say goodbye was filmed separately and spliced together -- possibly because Margulies didn't like Punjabi getting an emmy nom when Margulies was supposed to be the big star ... wut?

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I like the opening credit sequence. I think initially I was neutral on it but found it went on too long, but it's grown on me and now I like it. I hum the little song the day after we watch. And my DH and I enjoy making up fake lyrics since we have no idea what they are actually saying. It's "Mahjong!" right? They are singing about playing mahjong?

I think because this show has been such a guilty pleasure watch that I really look forward to, that feeling has extended to the opening credits and now I enjoy them, even though they are quite dumb, because it means I get to soon watch this show, which I also enjoy even though it is often quite dumb.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not Juliana Margulies being pale that makes her so severe looking - I think her coloring is beautiful. She’s done something to her face and I can’t put my finger on it. She just looks extremely gaunt.

Yes, very severe looking.

It's called aging, when you're skinny and don't do fillers and botox.

Her hair color was awful too. You can’t do all black like that. It looked like shoe polish. Even my husband commented on it (and he’s no metrosexual).

But I have loved her since her ER days. Her voice soothes me. She is so calm in contrast to Bradley and I loved her NYC home with the snow on the patio. I’ll move in.

I still haven't forgiven Juliana Margulies for having so much friction with Archie Punjabi on The Good Wife that she wouldn't even appear in scenes with her such that their last scene on the show together where they say goodbye was filmed separately and spliced together -- possibly because Margulies didn't like Punjabi getting an emmy nom when Margulies was supposed to be the big star ... wut?

I mean, wut is right. Who cares about any of this? It has nothing to do with her performance. I liked her on the good wife and like her on this. If I read that she was abusive on set or treated assistants really poorly, it might make me think less of her and view her differently on screen. But rumors about some beef she had with another actress (who I also like)? Who cares? They are actors and likely more emotional than the average person, it is probably a function of needing to be able to access emotions easily while performing. I think it leads to a lot of their inter-personal problems. But I can't imagine that being the deciding factor in whether or not I like an actor's performance.

I think JM is good on this show. I don't think Reese is great but she has really benefitted from her characters relationships with Alex, Cory, and Laura, all of whom are played by what I think are better actors (or in Jennifer Aniston's case, an actor who better understands how to play to her strengths as a performer, even if she's always playing a version of herself). I think there are a number of actors on this show who really carry it, and would include JM in that group.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not Juliana Margulies being pale that makes her so severe looking - I think her coloring is beautiful. She’s done something to her face and I can’t put my finger on it. She just looks extremely gaunt.

Yes, very severe looking.

It's called aging, when you're skinny and don't do fillers and botox.

Her hair color was awful too. You can’t do all black like that. It looked like shoe polish. Even my husband commented on it (and he’s no metrosexual).

But I have loved her since her ER days. Her voice soothes me. She is so calm in contrast to Bradley and I loved her NYC home with the snow on the patio. I’ll move in.

I still haven't forgiven Juliana Margulies for having so much friction with Archie Punjabi on The Good Wife that she wouldn't even appear in scenes with her such that their last scene on the show together where they say goodbye was filmed separately and spliced together -- possibly because Margulies didn't like Punjabi getting an emmy nom when Margulies was supposed to be the big star ... wut?

I mean, wut is right. Who cares about any of this? It has nothing to do with her performance. I liked her on the good wife and like her on this. If I read that she was abusive on set or treated assistants really poorly, it might make me think less of her and view her differently on screen. But rumors about some beef she had with another actress (who I also like)? Who cares? They are actors and likely more emotional than the average person, it is probably a function of needing to be able to access emotions easily while performing. I think it leads to a lot of their inter-personal problems. But I can't imagine that being the deciding factor in whether or not I like an actor's performance.

I think JM is good on this show. I don't think Reese is great but she has really benefitted from her characters relationships with Alex, Cory, and Laura, all of whom are played by what I think are better actors (or in Jennifer Aniston's case, an actor who better understands how to play to her strengths as a performer, even if she's always playing a version of herself). I think there are a number of actors on this show who really carry it, and would include JM in that group.

Well said, agree with all of it.

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Anonymous wrote:What episode is this scene you all are taking about with JA, Chip and her assistant?

In the last episode, when Alex asks Chip and her assistant to go to her home studio and retrieve her device for the hack, and then she comes home and finds them en flagrante. And then they tell her it's been going on for a while but they didn't know how to tell her.

I actually thought the scene was funny because its as very much about how Alex has Main Character Syndrome and once she's over her initial shock, she's like "let's all go out together to celebrate! this is so great! how can I be involved!" and there's some great subtle face acting from Duplass and the actress playing the assistant where Chip is almost ready to agree because he has a grossly codependent relationship with Alex, but the assistant is like "haha, no."

I love Mark Duplass in that role so that sells a lot of the show for me. He is so, so good at playing this guy who is likable and loyal but also entirely careerist with almost no actual morals. To me the show is very much about how these people can say all they want about "journalism" or even entertainment but at the end of the day, they are entirely in it for themselves and their own egos. It rings extremely true to me.

What happened to Chip’s fiancé?

It’s not directly addressed. But I think she left after he slipped out during JA’s Covid and pretended he had Covid to help JA get well and film from home
Remember she called during the time he was setting up the camera in JA apartment and he declined the call and cursed- he must have lied to the fiancé about where he was going or else just left.

Chip might actually be the most ruthlessly careerist person on the show, which is kind of funny because he has so little power -- he's entirely beholden to the whims of both on-air talent and the big egos in the c-suite. I find is character very amusing if not really at all likable.

The actor does a good job because I absolutely hate him. I want to punch him in the face and his stupid parka. He always has that sour resting b@tch face.

He plays such a douche that you want to punch on Togetherness that I will never be able to think of him in any other way. He is typecast as a prick.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not Juliana Margulies being pale that makes her so severe looking - I think her coloring is beautiful. She’s done something to her face and I can’t put my finger on it. She just looks extremely gaunt.

Yes, very severe looking.

It's called aging, when you're skinny and don't do fillers and botox.

Her hair color was awful too. You can’t do all black like that. It looked like shoe polish. Even my husband commented on it (and he’s no metrosexual).

But I have loved her since her ER days. Her voice soothes me. She is so calm in contrast to Bradley and I loved her NYC home with the snow on the patio. I’ll move in.

I still haven't forgiven Juliana Margulies for having so much friction with Archie Punjabi on The Good Wife that she wouldn't even appear in scenes with her such that their last scene on the show together where they say goodbye was filmed separately and spliced together -- possibly because Margulies didn't like Punjabi getting an emmy nom when Margulies was supposed to be the big star ... wut?

I mean, wut is right. Who cares about any of this? It has nothing to do with her performance. I liked her on the good wife and like her on this. If I read that she was abusive on set or treated assistants really poorly, it might make me think less of her and view her differently on screen. But rumors about some beef she had with another actress (who I also like)? Who cares? They are actors and likely more emotional than the average person, it is probably a function of needing to be able to access emotions easily while performing. I think it leads to a lot of their inter-personal problems. But I can't imagine that being the deciding factor in whether or not I like an actor's performance.

I think JM is good on this show. I don't think Reese is great but she has really benefitted from her characters relationships with Alex, Cory, and Laura, all of whom are played by what I think are better actors (or in Jennifer Aniston's case, an actor who better understands how to play to her strengths as a performer, even if she's always playing a version of herself). I think there are a number of actors on this show who really carry it, and would include JM in that group.

I'm PP and I care. I loved The Good Wife but if the actor is actually a backbiting jerk, that matters to me. Once I knew Matt Lauer was harassing women, I didn't want to see him interview people anymore. I don't watch Woody Allen movies anymore. Everyone is different and some people care less about this stuff, but for me art isn't unconnected to the people who make it.

I'm still watching the Morning Show though so I guess either icing out a coworker isn't a fatal offense or I'm just a hypocrite. But my read of her characters is now colored by that incident

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not Juliana Margulies being pale that makes her so severe looking - I think her coloring is beautiful. She’s done something to her face and I can’t put my finger on it. She just looks extremely gaunt.

Yes, very severe looking.

It's called aging, when you're skinny and don't do fillers and botox.

Her hair color was awful too. You can’t do all black like that. It looked like shoe polish. Even my husband commented on it (and he’s no metrosexual).

But I have loved her since her ER days. Her voice soothes me. She is so calm in contrast to Bradley and I loved her NYC home with the snow on the patio. I’ll move in.

I still haven't forgiven Juliana Margulies for having so much friction with Archie Punjabi on The Good Wife that she wouldn't even appear in scenes with her such that their last scene on the show together where they say goodbye was filmed separately and spliced together -- possibly because Margulies didn't like Punjabi getting an emmy nom when Margulies was supposed to be the big star ... wut?

I mean, wut is right. Who cares about any of this? It has nothing to do with her performance. I liked her on the good wife and like her on this. If I read that she was abusive on set or treated assistants really poorly, it might make me think less of her and view her differently on screen. But rumors about some beef she had with another actress (who I also like)? Who cares? They are actors and likely more emotional than the average person, it is probably a function of needing to be able to access emotions easily while performing. I think it leads to a lot of their inter-personal problems. But I can't imagine that being the deciding factor in whether or not I like an actor's performance.

I think JM is good on this show. I don't think Reese is great but she has really benefitted from her characters relationships with Alex, Cory, and Laura, all of whom are played by what I think are better actors (or in Jennifer Aniston's case, an actor who better understands how to play to her strengths as a performer, even if she's always playing a version of herself). I think there are a number of actors on this show who really carry it, and would include JM in that group.

I'm PP and I care. I loved The Good Wife but if the actor is actually a backbiting jerk, that matters to me. Once I knew Matt Lauer was harassing women, I didn't want to see him interview people anymore. I don't watch Woody Allen movies anymore. Everyone is different and some people care less about this stuff, but for me art isn't unconnected to the people who make it.

I'm still watching the Morning Show though so I guess either icing out a coworker isn't a fatal offense or I'm just a hypocrite. But my read of her characters is now colored by that incident

Except you're assuming JM was a villain based on nothing. What if AP was? Or both? What if it was just a difference of temperament and they just couldn't communicate well and it escalated? I read their different acting styles was part of the friction.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not Juliana Margulies being pale that makes her so severe looking - I think her coloring is beautiful. She’s done something to her face and I can’t put my finger on it. She just looks extremely gaunt.

Yes, very severe looking.

It's called aging, when you're skinny and don't do fillers and botox.

Her hair color was awful too. You can’t do all black like that. It looked like shoe polish. Even my husband commented on it (and he’s no metrosexual).

But I have loved her since her ER days. Her voice soothes me. She is so calm in contrast to Bradley and I loved her NYC home with the snow on the patio. I’ll move in.

I still haven't forgiven Juliana Margulies for having so much friction with Archie Punjabi on The Good Wife that she wouldn't even appear in scenes with her such that their last scene on the show together where they say goodbye was filmed separately and spliced together -- possibly because Margulies didn't like Punjabi getting an emmy nom when Margulies was supposed to be the big star ... wut?

I mean, wut is right. Who cares about any of this? It has nothing to do with her performance. I liked her on the good wife and like her on this. If I read that she was abusive on set or treated assistants really poorly, it might make me think less of her and view her differently on screen. But rumors about some beef she had with another actress (who I also like)? Who cares? They are actors and likely more emotional than the average person, it is probably a function of needing to be able to access emotions easily while performing. I think it leads to a lot of their inter-personal problems. But I can't imagine that being the deciding factor in whether or not I like an actor's performance.

I think JM is good on this show. I don't think Reese is great but she has really benefitted from her characters relationships with Alex, Cory, and Laura, all of whom are played by what I think are better actors (or in Jennifer Aniston's case, an actor who better understands how to play to her strengths as a performer, even if she's always playing a version of herself). I think there are a number of actors on this show who really carry it, and would include JM in that group.

I'm PP and I care. I loved The Good Wife but if the actor is actually a backbiting jerk, that matters to me. Once I knew Matt Lauer was harassing women, I didn't want to see him interview people anymore. I don't watch Woody Allen movies anymore. Everyone is different and some people care less about this stuff, but for me art isn't unconnected to the people who make it.

I'm still watching the Morning Show though so I guess either icing out a coworker isn't a fatal offense or I'm just a hypocrite. But my read of her characters is now colored by that incident

Except you're assuming JM was a villain based on nothing. What if AP was? Or both? What if it was just a difference of temperament and they just couldn't communicate well and it escalated? I read their different acting styles was part of the friction.

+1, and comparing it to the Matt Lauer situation is unnecessary. Matt Lauer was harassing and assaulting women who worked below him, using his power as a celebrity and high-paid on air personality to get what he wanted out of women who trying to make it in a competitive industry, it's disgusting.

All we know about JM and AP on the set of the Good Wife is that they didn't get along and there may have been professional jealousy. Whatever, none of my business. There's never been an accusation of abuse and while JM was the headliner on that show AP was also a well-paid featured actor on the show and has a very good career. I think getting drawn into that drama and choosing sides is just buying into narratives about women competing and the need to pick a side. You don't. I like them both. Glad they've both moved onto other projects. AP was good on the recent Idris Elba miniseries. I like JM in this.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe there isn’t any mention of the restaurant scene and Stella’s predicament. IMO that was pretty major.

- Meanwhile, Bradley... yawn. They want me to care so much about what exactly Bradley "owes" Cory for and I just don't. At least not yet. Just tell us and let it play out. Keeping us in suspense on something that already happened in the timeline of the show, and that multiple characters already know about, feels cheap.

I thought he was referencing the sex tape of Bradley that he paid to have go away. Also, it was insinuated that they hooked up after they searched for her brother, and she said she was worried about that also coming out, but then he said he didn't tell anyone. So maybe that too?

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe there isn’t any mention of the restaurant scene and Stella’s predicament. IMO that was pretty major.

- Meanwhile, Bradley... yawn. They want me to care so much about what exactly Bradley "owes" Cory for and I just don't. At least not yet. Just tell us and let it play out. Keeping us in suspense on something that already happened in the timeline of the show, and that multiple characters already know about, feels cheap.

I thought he was referencing the sex tape of Bradley that he paid to have go away. Also, it was insinuated that they hooked up after they searched for her brother, and she said she was worried about that also coming out, but then he said he didn't tell anyone. So maybe that too?

I definitely thought it was the sex tape that he killed.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not Juliana Margulies being pale that makes her so severe looking - I think her coloring is beautiful. She’s done something to her face and I can’t put my finger on it. She just looks extremely gaunt.

Yes, very severe looking.

It's called aging, when you're skinny and don't do fillers and botox.

Her hair color was awful too. You can’t do all black like that. It looked like shoe polish. Even my husband commented on it (and he’s no metrosexual).

But I have loved her since her ER days. Her voice soothes me. She is so calm in contrast to Bradley and I loved her NYC home with the snow on the patio. I’ll move in.

I still haven't forgiven Juliana Margulies for having so much friction with Archie Punjabi on The Good Wife that she wouldn't even appear in scenes with her such that their last scene on the show together where they say goodbye was filmed separately and spliced together -- possibly because Margulies didn't like Punjabi getting an emmy nom when Margulies was supposed to be the big star ... wut?

I mean, wut is right. Who cares about any of this? It has nothing to do with her performance. I liked her on the good wife and like her on this. If I read that she was abusive on set or treated assistants really poorly, it might make me think less of her and view her differently on screen. But rumors about some beef she had with another actress (who I also like)? Who cares? They are actors and likely more emotional than the average person, it is probably a function of needing to be able to access emotions easily while performing. I think it leads to a lot of their inter-personal problems. But I can't imagine that being the deciding factor in whether or not I like an actor's performance.

I think JM is good on this show. I don't think Reese is great but she has really benefitted from her characters relationships with Alex, Cory, and Laura, all of whom are played by what I think are better actors (or in Jennifer Aniston's case, an actor who better understands how to play to her strengths as a performer, even if she's always playing a version of herself). I think there are a number of actors on this show who really carry it, and would include JM in that group.

I'm PP and I care. I loved The Good Wife but if the actor is actually a backbiting jerk, that matters to me. Once I knew Matt Lauer was harassing women, I didn't want to see him interview people anymore. I don't watch Woody Allen movies anymore. Everyone is different and some people care less about this stuff, but for me art isn't unconnected to the people who make it.

I'm still watching the Morning Show though so I guess either icing out a coworker isn't a fatal offense or I'm just a hypocrite. But my read of her characters is now colored by that incident

I agree with you. I like JM but it does bother me that she and the actress who played Kalinda couldn't pull it together for the show! It actually hurt the show too because their friendship the first few seasons was an important part of things and they had to squash it/downplay it cause they couldn't do scenes together. And yes about Woody Alan. Can't stand him...but even before all of this stuff really came out in the last decade, I remember watching that horrible movie he did with every star in hollywood where a young hot julia roberts in her prime was supposed to be into him and I remember being in the theater thinking, but why, why would she be? god he must be so arrogant to have her as his love interest.

Anyway carry on with the morning show....

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe there isn’t any mention of the restaurant scene and Stella’s predicament. IMO that was pretty major.

- Meanwhile, Bradley... yawn. They want me to care so much about what exactly Bradley "owes" Cory for and I just don't. At least not yet. Just tell us and let it play out. Keeping us in suspense on something that already happened in the timeline of the show, and that multiple characters already know about, feels cheap.

I thought he was referencing the sex tape of Bradley that he paid to have go away. Also, it was insinuated that they hooked up after they searched for her brother, and she said she was worried about that also coming out, but then he said he didn't tell anyone. So maybe that too?

I definitely thought it was the sex tape that he killed.

I don't think it could be that (or not just that) because that happened within the last couple episodes but they've been hinting at Bradley owing him for longer than that.

I wonder if it has something to do with how she got the evening news gig. It's a bit weird that they've talked a lot about how Alex's career evolved since the end of last season (we've heard a lot about how she saved her career and the streaming platform because her "I have Covid" show was so popular). But Bradley went from morning anchor to evening anchor and no one has explained how.

Maybe she made a deal with Cory that got her the evening spot and she did, or promised to do, something really compromising or unsavory.

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Anonymous wrote:One of the worst things about this show is the unending opening credits and music. Yes, I know you can skip it, but it still plays the last 10-15 seconds. Horrible and tedious. I wonder who came up with it.

Last season they talked about insights to the episode after the credits, wish they’d do that this season.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not Juliana Margulies being pale that makes her so severe looking - I think her coloring is beautiful. She’s done something to her face and I can’t put my finger on it. She just looks extremely gaunt.

Yes, very severe looking.

It's called aging, when you're skinny and don't do fillers and botox.

Her hair color was awful too. You can’t do all black like that. It looked like shoe polish. Even my husband commented on it (and he’s no metrosexual).

But I have loved her since her ER days. Her voice soothes me. She is so calm in contrast to Bradley and I loved her NYC home with the snow on the patio. I’ll move in.

I still haven't forgiven Juliana Margulies for having so much friction with Archie Punjabi on The Good Wife that she wouldn't even appear in scenes with her such that their last scene on the show together where they say goodbye was filmed separately and spliced together -- possibly because Margulies didn't like Punjabi getting an emmy nom when Margulies was supposed to be the big star ... wut?

I don’t think it was the just the last scene. I think it was the last season or two they didn’t film together.

Anyone know the story behind the animosity?

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe there isn’t any mention of the restaurant scene and Stella’s predicament. IMO that was pretty major.

- Meanwhile, Bradley... yawn. They want me to care so much about what exactly Bradley "owes" Cory for and I just don't. At least not yet. Just tell us and let it play out. Keeping us in suspense on something that already happened in the timeline of the show, and that multiple characters already know about, feels cheap.

I thought he was referencing the sex tape of Bradley that he paid to have go away. Also, it was insinuated that they hooked up after they searched for her brother, and she said she was worried about that also coming out, but then he said he didn't tell anyone. So maybe that too?

I definitely thought it was the sex tape that he killed.

I think she slept with him during COVID. Weren’t they in the same hotel for awhile? Then she got the anchor for the evening news. Looks and sounds like a #metoo issue which is the big story she broke for UBA.