{"id":135472,"date":"2025-09-11T15:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/135472\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:09:09","slug":"the-morning-show-season-four-wont-address-trumps-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/135472\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Morning Show’ Season Four Won’t Address Trump’s Reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhen the fourth season<\/a> of The Morning Show<\/a> drops on Apple TV+ next week, audiences will catch up with Jennifer Aniston<\/a>\u2018s Alex Levy and Reese Witherspoon<\/a>\u2018s Bradley Jackson almost two years after the events of season three<\/a>, with a time jump<\/a> into early 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor a show that regularly hits on of-the-moment topics like the #MeToo movement and COVID-19 pandemic, viewers may expect this season to address the 2024 presidential election<\/a> \u2014 but that will not be the case.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the show\u2019s New York premiere on Tuesday, director and executive producer Mimi Leder told The Hollywood Reporter, \u201cWe did not touch the election \u2014 this season ends right before the election. Our show is not about elections; our show is about the world, about AI, about deepfakes, about environmental tragedies. It\u2019s about democracy. It\u2019s about journalists in jeopardy, journalists under threat, and our main theme this season is trust \u2014 who can you trust?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShowrunner Charlotte Stoudt added that with the season set in the spring of 2024 when the presidential race was still between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, \u201cWe try to go at it sideways. We don\u2019t really have, directly, an election story, but we do touch on the idea of: Why were two older white men running for president. Why do we still need daddy?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThere are a few moments that reference the political climate at that time, though, as then-President Biden makes a brief appearance in season four via a media clip, and is mentioned as part of a storyline involving Alex Levy, who is now steering the season three finale merger<\/a> between The Morning Show\u2018s parent company and their rival media company to create the newly formed UBN. Big tech, AI, fringe media, employment and reproductive rights are also election-related topics tackled this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tCo-star Nestor Carbonell explained, \u201cI think this season, there was less of an emphasis on the political side and more on the social implications of these things. There are politics but they\u2019re politics within the station, less so on the political election.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tHannah Leder, William Jackson Harper, Nicole Beharie, Boyd Holbrook, N\u00e9stor Carbonell, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, Jeremy Irons, Karen Pittman, Marion Cotillard and Jon Hamm.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEric Charbonneau\/Apple TV+ via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tOn top of the already starry cast of Aniston, Witherspoon, Billy Crudup, Jon Hamm, Mark Duplass and Karen Pittman, season four welcomes new additions<\/a> Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, William Jackson Harper and Boyd Holbrook. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut even with that supersized cast, Witherspoon promised \u201ca lot more\u201d moments between her and Aniston\u2019s characters \u2014 after they were in largely separate storylines in season three, and left off with a cliffhanger<\/a> that set them even further apart. \u201cYou\u2019re going to see Alex and Bradley from the very beginning, almost in a little tension too. They\u2019re maybe not as friendly as they were last season,\u201d she teased.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Morning Show season four starts streaming Sept. 17 on Apple TV+. <\/p>\n

\n\tNeha Joy and Jackie Strause contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the fourth season of The Morning Show drops on Apple TV+ next week, audiences will catch up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[23083,64,63,4268,134,3172,8362,55906,19560,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-135472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-apple-tv","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-election","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-events","14":"tag-jennifer-aniston","15":"tag-reese-witherspoon","16":"tag-the-morning-show","17":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}