Greta Lee Is Becoming the Best Part of ‘The Morning Show’
Episode 4 of “The Morning Show” gave Lee her juiciest material yet as new president Stella Bak—proving that, amid all the “Morning Show” chaos, she’s the grounding force.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Apple TV+
“I think she likes the mess. A lot of people do,” Stella Bak (Greta Lee) says to an advertising executive about how his wife and other viewers feel about The Morning Show’s scandal-plagued fictitious network UBA. It also sums up why the Apple TV+ drama is so damn watchable.
Pandemonium reigns in the cutthroat television business, with the survival of legacy media company UBA taking center stage in the third season. Billy Crudup’s dialed-up-to-11 manic energy as CEO Cory Ellison is the not-so-secret (or subtle) weapon of the Apple TV+ drama, but giving him someone to work with rather than rail against—or try to contain—was a highlight of the often erratic sophomore outing. (Let’s not forget this season opened as the ball dropped at Times Square, ushering in 2020.)
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