This is great, Misty.

I love "The Morning Show" almost as much as I hate The Today Show. It's News Lite with the notorious, odious 'switch' at 8 AM, when it becomes 'The Housewives Hour' (not my original thought; it's been called that for decades), with the idea that the men have gone to work by then so they can stop being serious and move on to the shallow stuff.

You make good points about the connections between the Matt Lauer character--no secret, but I didn't know about Brian Stelter's book--and the awful way they fired Ann Curry. I loved that she made it clear she wasn't leaving on her own, and I teared up at her eloquent, gracious farewell speech, but the truth--for me at least--is that she was completely out of her element as an anchor. She did better on the short segments where she could furl her brow and listen attentively to someone's plight.

I don't mean that as an insult. She was good at those interviews because she was empathetic and she sincerely cared. But the heavy load of anchoring was beyond her and Matt Lauer knew it and made it harder for her. He was an ass and it showed.

But Ann became the hero and not the victim when the truth came out about Matt, so in the end she triumphed. The dirty underpinnings of the seemingly innocuous Today Show are exposed now, and if the fictional "Morning Show" does nothing else, it will serve to remind us that women in the spotlight--and everywhere else--deserve more than they're getting and they won't stand for it anymore.