Warning: This post contains spoilers from the season 1 finale ofThe Morning Show.
EW spoke withMorning Showshowrunner Kerry Ehrin about the finale, season 2, and more.
What did you all discuss in terms of how you wanted to shoot that?
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We wanted to be able to sculpt it in editing.
And [director] Michelle MacLaren captured the painful presence in that scene.
It’s very complicated emotionally, and I think she brilliantly captured it with a beautiful nuance.
It was so fascinating to watch, because from her perspective, it’s terrible.
He’s choosing not to get it.
I think it’s a couple things.
He’s a narcissist and he’s convincing himself that it’s consensual.
I loved that idea.
They were just so angry and their world was falling apart.
Not to this extent and not as immediately.
She was in the eye of a hurricane.
It’s like everybody was swirling around her.
She couldn’t find a way out of it.
She was ashamed she accepted the promotion, and she was ashamed it happened.
She took on all of those things and had no outlet for.
It was just too big for that young woman.
At the end of the finale, Alex and Bradley essentially blow everything up.
Knowing you had a second season, were you at all hesitant to go that far?
That was the goal we were working toward all year, we knew we were going to land there.
There were different versions of it.
There were different versions of Hannah, of how you get there, but that seemed really important.
And I think also it’s such a great arc for both of them.
It was a great place to finish for both of them.
Everything Alex had been through, everything Bradley had tried to accomplish.
And there was definitely a sense of tragedy to it.
It’s too tragic to be a total victory but I also think that’s realistic in a way.
I really loved that part of the story.
Where do we go from here in season 2?
Well, we emerge from the wreckage.
We see what the world looks like outside of the war zone.
Everyone’s trying to find their footing in a new universe.
What has the experience of putting this show out been like for you?
In the beginning, the reviews definitely hurt.
I’m not going to lie.
That’s the best thing you could ask for.
