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When I saw that AppleTV made a show about a show I thought it would me more like a close up view on how the cable news networks cook up their fake news. I was very pleasantly surprised to see that it is a serious and amusing show about how real people behave in the show making industry. In the first season they model the plot line after the Today Show. Aniston is Katie Couric or someone like her and Steve Carrell is Matt Lauer. Martin Short plays Harvey Weinstein and Billy Cruddup plays Zucker. Marcia Gay Harden plays Maggie Haberman of the NYT and so forth. There's even the button in Carrell's dressing room that shuts and locks his door from the desk like Matt Lauer had at NBC. What I like most about the show is that it shows all sides of the me-too issue as there is a continuum of inappropriate work place behavior that so many people participate in. How do you meet someone new when all you do is work? They take it seriously and that's important. Aniston has become a much better actress than her Rom Com movies make her out to be and Witherspoon is always a good actress. I've only watched the first season but I am very grateful that there is no mention of our national political divide. They barely get political and I'm thankful for that. Bravo to Apple for making such good programming. I'm happy to pay for it.

This movie was made while Angelina was still married to Billy Bob and Brad to Jennifer Aniston. Both were cheating though Angelina was at least separated. Ironically Vince Vaughn is in the movie and he became Jennifer's first boyfriend after divorcing Brad. The best part about the movie is the chemistry between Brad and Angelina. The premise is absurd but the movie is mostly just fun. Sadly their marriage also failed so I suppose that is the Hollywood way and this movie now stands as a marker between relationships for all involved. Ironically everyone mentioned is now divorced except for Vaughn who wisely steered clear of marrying an actress.

This series is an ideological dream for progressives. If only they could rewrite history and erase all of the actual struggles women experienced in order to arrive where we are today. It is an insult to women to think that only if Ted Kennedy had become president instead of Jimmy Carter we would have fast forwarded to the passage of the equal rights amendment and jumped over the decades of being called honey on the job. It isn't enough that we are actually running the world today. At first I thought this series was a novel idea because who knows where we would be today if we hadn't switched space exploration for the shuttle program. It is an interesting idea to contemplate. Unlike most ideas though this should have been a movie to summarize and conjecture about how much further ahead mankind would be if we'd kept at it. I couldn't get through the entire first season because erasing my entire adult experience as a woman in the work place was a bad idea and didn't feel right. Perhaps a younger person would like it but I lived through those years and want to honor the journey.