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And when she gets there, shes happy to just drink wine and playTrivial Pursuitfor a bit.
They dont even put pieces on a board!
They just read the cards!
Jen Chaney:The board is actually open and on the table though, which is the weird thing.
But I feel like we need to put the car in reverse (too soon?)
and talk about why Alex Levy goes to Italy in the first place.
Mitch rightly asks why Alex couldnt have called or emailed.
Her answer does not satisfy me.
Shes afraid of it being in the cloud?
Then later she says she didnt have his number.
The thing is, the world doesnt make any more senseoutsideof the estate either!
Jackson McHenry:Signora, there is a lockdown is one of the funnier lines in the entire show.
But yes, it feels like this episode is the mutant outgrowth of two misconceptions byThe Morning Showthis season.
One, that the audience wants to see more of Steve Carell.
Seriously, shes just gonna bounce after being there for ten minutes.
And she was excited about it, and Mitch seems quite tender in that exchange?
Which did leave me with some alarmingly specific questions about what they … did?
Jackson McHenry:What doesnt qualify as sex but can make you pregnant?
A cursed riddle of the sphinx.
Hes just had sex with Paula, andshe is waiting for her cigarettes.
Kathryn VanArendonk:This, at least, is an impulse fromThe Morning Showthat does make sense.
They did need to get rid of Steve Carell.
Killing him makes, I guess, as much sense as anything else wouldve at this point.
Only onThe Morning Show!
I do have to admire the sheer idiosyncrasy of this choice.
But yes, if only this all had happened earlier in the season.
So much happens in this season, and yet all the Carell business has stalled until now.
Jen Chaney: To kill Mitch off but not with COVID: Its called bravery.
Kathryn VanArendonk:Like Paola doing whatever her anti-cancel culture documentary is!
Jackson McHenry:Bravo!
Various Italian hand gestures and phrases!
So they needed to get rid of the character.
Like, what does it ultimately want us to think about Mitch?
What is its point of view about so-called cancel culture?
It just talks around shit until the running time of an episode is gone.
I feel that frustration really profoundly in this episode.
I have not been canceled, he tells Alex.
Im attracted to them.
Im old enough to remember when that was considered progressive.
He is immediately defensive, not to mention racist.
(Talking about Black women as if they are a monolith: Cool choice, Mitch.)
If he really doesnt think he can be canceled, he wouldnt care.
and the show incorporating it after the fact.
