History Series / TheMorningShow

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: In season 2, Paola is this for Mitch. Subverted in that, [[while Paola DOES help Mitch start to loosen up (even to the point of convincing him to conquer his fear of intimacy by sleeping with her), he dies in a car accident before he can make any meaningful changes in his life.]]

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: In "La Amara Vita", Paola slaps Mitch across the face after [[spoiler: he repeatedly rebuffs her advances]]. Not only is this depicted as a mostly playful moment between the two, but Mitch is actually ''turned on'' by Paola's behavior [[spoiler: (and CoitusEnsues)]]. This is especially jarring when you consider that one of the main themes of this show is the importance of holding ''male'' abusers accountable.

** [[spoiler: Paola]] plants one on [[spoiler: Mitch]] in "La Amara Vita" when [[spoiler: he starts babbling about the news report about him targeting Black women, which he does not think he did. Initially Mitch is hesitant, but it isn't long before CoitusEnsues.]]

* BirthdayEpisode: The first half of season one's [[WholeEpisodeFlashback flashback episode]], "Lonely at the Top", focuses on [[spoiler: Mitch's 50th]] birthday - culminating in [[spoiler: the entire TMS crew throwing him a SurpriseParty]].

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: In "La Amara Vita", Paola slaps Mitch across the face in frustration after [[spoiler: he repeatedly rebuffs her advances]]. Not only is this depicted as a mostly playful moment between the two, but Mitch is actually ''turned on'' by Paola's behavior [[spoiler: (and CoitusEnsues)]]. This is especially jarring when you consider that one of the main themes of this show is the importance of holding ''male'' abusers accountable.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: In "La Amara Vita", Paola slaps Mitch across the face after [[spoiler: he rebuffs her advances]]. Not only is this depicted as a mostly playful moment between the two, but Mitch is actually ''turned on'' by Paola's behavior [[spoiler: (and CoitusEnsues)]]. This is especially jarring when you consider that one of the main themes of this show is the importance of holding ''male'' abusers accountable.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: In "La Amara Vita", Paola slaps Mitch across the face when [[spoiler: he declines to sleep with her]]. Not only is this depicted as a mostly playful moment between the two, but Mitch is actually ''turned on'' by Paola's behavior [[spoiler: (and CoitusEnsues)]]. This is especially jarring when you consider that one of the main themes of this show is the importance of holding ''male'' abusers accountable.

* NeverMyFault: Like many sexual predators, Mitch does his best to blame his behavior on everyone (including UBA and his victims) ''but'' himself (he even has the audacity to claim that the sex he had with [[spoiler: Hannah]] was not only consensual, but that [[spoiler: ''she'' used ''him'' to get a promotion.]]). The scariest part of all this is that it quickly becomes clear he ''[[BelievingTheirOwnLies genuinely doesn't believe]]'' he's done anything wrong. It finally comes crashing down when [[spoiler:Hannah fatally overdoses when those feelings are dredged back up, leaving him with a horrified ThousandYardStare as he can no longer lie to himself about his actions]].

* ShutUpKiss: In season 2 episode 3 ("Laura"), [[spoiler: Bradley]] gives [[spoiler: Laura]] one when [[spoiler: she asks if Bradley was "actually vetted for this job".]]

* StressVomit: In "The Pendulum Swings". Alex has an emotional breakdown over her impending divorce (and having to break the news to her daughter - whom she knows is going to blame her), which culminates in her vomiting into the toilet in her trailer. A mixture of VomitDiscretionShot and VomitIndiscretionShot - the toilet obscures most of it, but we DO get a VERY brief (about two second) glimpse of Alex's stomach contents as she hurries to lean over the bowl.

** Off that, a couple of people brush off how serious coronavirus will become with Episode 2 having the TitleDrop of "It's Just Like The Flu."

* TakeThatUs: A talk on the new UAB+ service launched has one character complaining "who needs another streaming service, there are too many as it is!"

* TemptingFate: The season 2 premiere is set on New Year's Eve 2019, with characters musing on how bad the year was and hoping 2020 is better...right after one brushes off a story of Chinese authorities concerned about a new respiratory illness outbreak...

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: However, in "La Amara Vita", Paola slaps Mitch across the face when [[spoiler: he declines to sleep with her]]. Not only is this depicted as a mostly playful moment between the two, but Mitch is actually ''turned on'' by Paola's behavior [[spoiler: (and CoitusEnsues)]]. This is especially jarring when you consider that one of the main themes of this show is the importance of holding ''male'' abusers accountable.

* SmokingHotSex: Played with in ''La Amara Vita''. [[spoiler: After Mitch and Paola consummate their relationship, the latter reaches for a cigarette... only to discover that she's out. Mitch then offers to go get her some more.]]

* SmokingHotSexx: Played with in ''La Amara Vita''. [[spoiler: After Mitch and Paola consummate their relationship, the latter reaches for a cigarette... only to discover that she's out. Mitch then offers to go get her some more.]]

** SmokingHotSex: Played with in ''La Amara Vita''. [[spoiler: After Mitch and Paola consummate their relationship, the latter reaches for a cigarette... only to discover that she's out. Mitch then offers to go get her some more.]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: To Creator/{{HBO}}'s Creator/AaronSorkin drama ''Series/TheNewsroom''.

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Lonely at the Top", gives us a look at what things were like at TMS before the shit hit the fan. Mitch celebrates his 50th birthday (and makes inappropriate sexual jokes about his female colleagues), the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting happens (and Mitch, Alex and co. are quickly dispatched to report on it), and, most disturbingly, [[spoiler: Mitch rapes Hannah in his hotel room]].

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Season 1's "Lonely at the Top", gives us a look at what things were like at TMS before the shit hit the fan. Mitch celebrates his 50th birthday (and makes inappropriate sexual jokes about his female colleagues), the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting happens (and Mitch, Alex and co. are quickly dispatched to report on it), and, most disturbingly, [[spoiler: Mitch rapes Hannah in his hotel room]].

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Season 1, episode 8, "Lonely at the Top", gives us a look at what things were like at TMS before the shit hit the fan. Mitch celebrates his 50th birthday (and makes inappropriate sexual jokes about his female colleagues), the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting happens (and Mitch, Alex and co. are quickly dispatched to report on it), and, most disturbingly, [[spoiler: Mitch rapes Hannah in his hotel room]].

** Bradley sarcastically asks if she should dye her hair blonde to be more attractive to viewers [[spoiler: and at some point between seasons 1 and 2, she actually does]]. Reese Witherspoon is of course actually blonde.