It’s episodes like “La Amara Vita” that make me wish The Morning Show actually started well before the implosion of TMS and Mitch Kessler’s sexual misconduct coming to light so that we could’ve watched more of Alex Levy and Mitch doing their thing on-air and off — their relationship is much more complex and interesting than most things happening on this show, and Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carrell have killer onscreen chemistry.
We now know that Alex Levy, back aching and spirit broken, hightailed it out of Las Vegas and flew over to Italy with one very important mission: To make sure no one now or ever, for all eternity, thinks she and Mitch had sex.
He finds Alex unable to get out of the gate at the end of his driveway, which of course immediately leads to comments about the button in his dressing room — apparently, that was Alex’s idea in the first place, and it was only to shut the door not “get dick sucked in private,” so there.
She’s awakened the next morning by a police officer who won’t let her drive to the airport without flight arrangements already made, and he needs to know where exactly she’s going — the only local number she has belongs to Mitch.
They talk about cancel culture — Alex truly is obsessed — and Mitch notes that the good thing to come out of it is that he realized who in his life is real and who believes you can change — for him this is, of all people, Paola and she just left due to said tension thanks to Mitch asking her to delete his interview and Alex making her feel like a piece of shit — and he apologizes for what he did to Alex.
Alex remembers that being associated with Mitch would ruin her, and Mitch remembers that everyone hates him no matter how much he cries out that he didn’t mean to do any of that and he doesn’t understand and he just wants to be a better person.
He swerves to avoid hitting a car coming around the bend, but when he sees he’s headed straight for a cliff, he doesn’t turn or hit the brakes; he lets go of the wheel.