Mitch is a constant reminder that we were watching a story loosely based on NBC's 'Today,' a show millions watch but few gossip about.

Related: 'The Morning Show' shifts to cover the pandemic, but still needs a shot in the arm to find its soul Nevertheless, now that he's gone, the show can double down on good old love-hate stew boiling at the center of UBA's workplace toxicity, the kind to which many more can relate than TV industry-specific conflicts. It didn't have to take us on a slow cruise towards empathy either. Unlike Lauer, the show couldn't simply disappear its star sexual predator. Carell's Mitch is one of those predicaments a show traps itself with, in that he's amply developed and directly involved in the reversal of Jennifer Aniston's Alex Levy. 'Confirmations' finds the plot, at long last, by offing Steve Carell's character Mitch Kessler, the story's Matt Lauer surrogate.

'The Morning Show' took almost two seasons to reach that point – or to be precise, one season and nearly eight episodes. Sometimes shows meander for a time before becoming what they should have been all along.