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This guide will tell you what to expect without giving away too much. If you're watching already, you might still like the guide (or not).

Here are the characters with the most interesting listed first.

Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup) maneuvered and schemed his way to UBN CEO until he was forced out last season. He makes grandiose statements that amuse me. In season 4 he's the same old schemer, trying to maneuver his way into a new role at UBN. Still the best written character.

Mia Jordan (Karen Pittman) has been the Morning Show director that stayed cool and kept all the egotistical broadcasters in check. She will become a major disrupter in the new season.

Christina Hunter (Nicole Beharie) is a former Olympian and rising star at UBN. She will suffer embarrassment more than once in early episodes but is given a juicier story line in later episodes.

Bradley Jordan (Reese Witherspoon) is a crusading MS anchor who begins the season in West Virginia after getting in trouble with the Feds. She'll soon be back at MS, stirring things up and getting in more trouble.

Chip Black (Mark Duplass) was pushed out as MS director and then became Alex's assistant until she made him the scapegoat for her mistake. Now he's less neurotic and quietly working on a story with Bradley. He gets a little revenge on Alex in a later episode.

Alex Levy (Jennifer Anniston) is the former star anchor who power-played herself into an executive role at UBN. Jen is still going against her reputation as America's Sweetheart because Alex is still selfish, demanding, foul-mouthed, and totally unlikeable. As usual she's in the middle of everything in the new season.

Clare Conway (Bel Powley) was an MS intern in season 1 until her job met a disappointing end. Now she's back and causing trouble for several people at UBN.

Yanko Flores (Nestor Carbonell) is a conservative co-anchor on MS who's thinking about getting engaged but takes a big risk by helping out a radical activist.

Celine Dumont (Marion Cotillard) is the hard-nosed Chairman of the Board who cares mostly about UBN's bottom line. She will also suffer more than one embarrassment this season.

Stella Bak (Greta Lee) is an ambitious corporate climber who took over as CEO after Cory was forced out. The writers must hate this character (or the actor) because Stella will suffer the worst embarrassment of all in #4.

Miles (Aaron Pierre) is muscular, handsome Black Man and major player in the NYC cultural scene. A new character who's straight out of a bad BET movie, his stereotypical role is to play the Mandingo by cheating on his wife with one of her subordinates at UBN in episode one. The action drags when he's on screen.

Bro Hartman (that's really his name), a new character played by Boyd Holbrook, is an obnoxious conservative podcaster brought into UBN to pump the ratings. Another stereotype, he must be in the cast to placate the people who whine that the show is too woke. He'll be a major player in #4 but he's mostly just an annoying bore.

Ben (W. J. Harper) is a new cast member (or is he?). He wins a big role at UBN but is mostly insignificant on the show. His outstanding characteristic is evil-looking slanted eyebrows. Another example of the writers' continuing failure to develop an interesting Black male character.

My rating of 8 is for the show over all four seasons. There are flaws, but the better plots keep me coming back. The new season dragged in early episodes but seems to be picking up steam now, with three episodes left.

Bruce Springsteen shocked the music world in 1982 by releasing Nebraska, a dark and brooding acoustic album inspired by a serial killer who terrorized that state in the 1950s. The movie shows Bruce holed up in a New Jersey lake house recording the bleak songs on a cassette and later struggling to turn out an acoustic album against the advice of everyone around him. As a longtime fan of his music, the making of Nebraska was fascinating to me, which accounts for the 5 stars in my rating. The rest of the movie was just filler to me.

J. A. White bears no physical resemblance to Bruce but does a credible impression of Bruce's speaking voice and on some of the songs he performs. Too much of the movie shows White as a brooding Bruce unhappy with his new rock star status. His relationship with Faye (Odessa Young) during the making of the album would be a touching story if it was true.

The movie implies that Nebraska was also inspired by Bruce's relationship with an abusive alcoholic father (played out in numerous flashbacks). After the successful recording of Nebraska, White portrays Bruce as a depressed man who breaks down in tears in front of his therapist. Even if the father abuse and depression parts are true (I'm skeptical), they just cause the movie to drag and distract from the making of the music. After the depression scenes, the movie just skips to a way too pat ending, leaving me with a Hungry Heart.

The most amazing thing about Long Way Home is that two celebrity motorcycle riders traveled through 11 European countries, and I didn't spot a single piece of trash on a city street or a rural highway. Makes me even more disappointed with trashy Americans.

The real stars of the travelogue are the beautiful cities, forests, and lakes of Europe. The two riders also find interesting cultures and people along the way. Ewan and Charlie seem like good-hearted guys, but their antics and personal lives aren't nearly as interesting as the European scenery and cultures. The pace of the travelogue picks up when the real stars are featured on the screen.