‘The Morning Show' Season 4 Promises the Exact Drama You Crave
In a teaser for the upcoming installment of Jay Carson's drama series from showrunner Charlotte Stoudt, Alex (Jennifer Aniston) and Bradley (Reese Witherspoon) are back at their daily wars with the audience, the network, their colleagues, and each other. Picking up almost two years after its predecessor, the ten-episode fourth season starts out in spring of 2024, just a few months before a fateful U.S. Presidential election that would change the course of history.
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From an Apple press release: 'In a world rife with deepfakes, conspiracy theories and corporate cover-ups — who can you trust? And how can you know what's actually real?' The teaser of Alex and Bradley walking past a reflective wall in slow motion looks deliberately artificial as a result — to make the viewer question what they can believe.
The Season 4 ensemble includes new and returning cast members such as Billy Crudup, Karen Pittman, Nicole Beharie, Nestor Carbonell, Mark Duplass, Greta Lee, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Aaron Pierre, William Jackson Harper, Boyd Holbrook, and Jon Hamm. Stoudt, Aniston, and Witherspoon serve as executive producers along with director Mimi Leder, Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer, Kristin Hahn, Zander Lehmann and Micah Schraft, and Lauren Neustadter. Several of them appear in the teaser, dropping sizzling soundbites like 'I like to know who's an ally and who's a liability' (Cotillard as Celine) and 'It sounds like the drama at the network is juicier than the drama on the network (Crudup as Cory).
Previous seasons of 'The Morning Show' have been recognized through various awards, including 16 Emmy Award nominations for Season 3 and multiple Emmy and Critics Choice Award wins for Crudup over the years. Aniston received a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for the show's second season, which took place during the months and weeks leading up to 2020's worldwide COVID-19 lockdown. The 10-episode season will premiere weekly, starting in September and concluding in November.
'The Morning Show' Season 4 premieres September 17 on Apple TV+. Watch the teaser below.
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