‘The Morning Show’ Director Mimi Leder on Tackling Everything From Deepfakes to AI Doubling as Therapists: ‘This Show Is About The Moment We’re Living in’

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“The Morning Show” Season 4 tackled everything from deepfakes, Olympic doping scandals, media mergers to AI doubling as people’s therapists. For director and executive producer Mimi Leder, the show’s staying power is in capturing the zeitgeist.

“The show is about the moment we are living in, which is dramatic. It’s tumultuous,” Leder tells Variety‘s senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay. “The world just throws stuff at us. We almost have to subtract what the world is throwing at us and see how it fits organically into our characters.”

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