might be the weirdest series on television. It’s an expensive, high-gloss show with two mega-stars as its leads——that has, since its beginning, seemed almost reverse engineered, as if Apple got Witherspoon and Aniston on board with a vague pitch and only then started figuring out the show that would surround them.—an erratic, shouty mishmash of salient headline ripping and soapy intrigue, at once sincere and totally bonkers.
The fifth episode traces Bradley during the pandemic: quarantining in Montana with Laura, learning about the death of her mother, breaking up with Laura in a well-acted argument scene, and then traveling to Washington D.C., where Bradley finds herself inside the Capitol during the insurrection. Don’t waste time questioning whether any network brass would have allowed, say, Peter Jennings orto go, alone, to such a happening.
It’s a pretty juicy dilemma for an otherwise dull character, one that does, in broad and melodramatic fashion, address the seedy compromises no doubt made by powerful media figures in our real world.