It's Like the Flu
- Episode aired Sep 24, 2021
- TV-MA
- 52m
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7.5/10
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Stars struggle to accept new roles. The TMS crew comes together for an important dinner.Stars struggle to accept new roles. The TMS crew comes together for an important dinner.Stars struggle to accept new roles. The TMS crew comes together for an important dinner.
Desean Terry
- Daniel Henderson
- (as Desean K. Terry)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAt around 33:15, Reese Witherspoon's character says something about how "they're bringing in my big sister to clean up my f'ing mess" upon mentioning Jennifer Aniston's character's reunion with hers. While this is most likely purely coincidental, way back when she had a guest slot on Friends (1994), Witherspoon had played the youngest sister of Jennifer Aniston's character Rachel, who was responsible for cleaning up her baby sister's messes.
- GoofsWhen Mitch is in the bar in Italy, the television shows several Serie A team names in English. What's more, the specific highlight shown is captioned "la prima metà" to mean "the first goal", but this is supposed to be "il primo gol" as "metà" only means "goal" in the sense of "objective".
- Quotes
Paola Lambruschini: [laughing] Finally, being crazy is paying off.
- ConnectionsReferences Casablanca (1942)
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Apple is making this show into a masterpiece
"It's Like the Flu" primarily revolves around the machinations involved in getting Alex back to The Morning Show, which honestly takes a lot longer than they necessarily need to. The above statement also applies to the extremely obvious and disturbingly insidious creep of COVID-19. The Morning Show's apparently decided that what audiences really want is to relieve the onset of a pandemic we're all still in the middle of and to do it by nostalgically framing the hamfisted way the media covered the virus in the first place. Aniston and Witherspoon really are great together, and though the fact that The Morning Show doesn't seem to know how to frame their relationship as anything other than adversarial in the end, both women infuse their scenes with so many layers that it gives everything more nuance than it probably deserves. Mitch Kessler of it all. Look, I get that Steve Carrell is great and that playing a complete sleazebag is very against type for him and blah blah blah, it's a very strong performance. His awkward Italian gelato cafe run-in with two women - one publicly shaming him and the other defending his right to be a creep in public - is...well, it's difficult to parse what precisely The Morning Show is trying to do here. Whichever way you choose to read that scene, it's hard not to be furious at the show essentially making fun of both young feminists who want to use social media to force men to at least acknowledge the harm they've done and older women who find their younger compatriot's feminism limiting and performative, it leaves very little room for nuance or the idea that women can and should be allowed to feel and express a vast array of feelings about men like Mitch.
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