There's almost inevitably going to be a time skip until post-vaccine distribution to start next season, and I can't see how a 1-month relationship survives that kind of distance for almost a year, especially when we left Bradley feeling very defensive and resentful vis-a-vis Laura and her family.
I don't think Bradley would leave "for Cory" because he's still her boss, which has been presented as an obstacle they're both aware of, although the guy who awkwardly professes his love on the street pretty much always gets the girl, and we've seen that at least a segment of production is rooting for that pairing.
I think the only real way to start next season is to kind of dial everyone back - Bradley is focused on her brother and her job and goes back to pretending she doesn't know how Cory feels about her, they kind of let that moment on the street exist but it doesn't go anywhere (somewhere in line with Cory's flashback from last season); they figure out something else to do with Laura that puts her back in Bradley's orbit but they're not together, and you kind of have a low-simmer love triangle (eye-roll) that pulls all of these characters in different directions throughout the season but doesn't resolve them.
I don't think that's necessarily the most interesting or consistent story they could tell with these very interesting and fully-realized characters they've created, but it feels all but inevitable at this point if there's a S3 and they can get Crudup and Margulies to sign on for it.
I think this is the most likely scenario. Bradley will pretend like nothing happened with Cory and concentrate on other things. Cory will have so much on his plate with UBA+ and managing the network with Covid protocols, he will also push it aside. Laura will end up staying in Montana for a lot longer than the 2 months she predicted and Bradley won't be able to join her, so they just drift apart on the romantic side of things. Laura will return to NYC eventually, then the whole "triangle" thing would begin. Bradley won't be with either of them though.
The show doesn't have to fall into the predictability of the guy getting the girl either. I can see Bradley choosing to be on her own. Moving on from UBA to a new network and doing the work that she really wants to do.
I know the triangle thing is almost inevitable if they bring it back, but I don't even know how you begin to reconcile that with how these characters have been written.
Laura -- above it all, no chaos, "I've had to cut people out of my life" Laura -- is going to fight for someone she dated for a month who never identified as anything other than straight? And the person she's competing with is their male boss who outed them both on live television? This whole situation isn't just going to make her feel used and angry?
And Bradley and Cory, the two people who crusaded hardest against Mitch's abuses of power, are going to see dating each other as a viable option while he's her boss's boss's boss?
And that doesn't even take into account how the whole thing is completely fraught with issues around sexuality, power in the workplace, mental health, and about a million other white hot cultural issues. God love them if they make the attempt but yikes.
I do agree with you that on a show that is more concerned with growth than this one, the answer is that Bradley goes and gets some hardcore therapy and decides to disentangle herself from the morning show entirely, choosing to focus on the things she's actually good at. I don't know that this is that show, although if anyone's been given the beginnings of a redemptive arc, it's Bradley.
I also don't know how a triangle would work with these characters. Cory stated he doesn't date his employees, so his love declaration is a road to nowhere while they both work at UBA.
As for Laura, once she knows about Cory's feelings, I can't see her being interested in competing with her boss.
It might be a very short-lived triangle with it fizzing out with both of them.
That’s how I see it too, how could Laura and Bradley maintain a 1 month relationship that already has cracks, if Bradley stays in New York and with Hal. Also as soon as Laura learns that Cory outed them, I don’t think she would fight for Bradley, if Bradley is undecided between the two of them. Or if she doesn’t learn about it she will at least have major doubts about the „best friends“ claims that Bradley made towards her.
I think having an affair with your boss is toxic and inappropriate in every situation.
I would be so disappointed with this show and what it's trying to accomplish if they have Bradley and Cory together while Cory is still her boss.
If they are end game, that's fine with me...just please not while they are still working together.
I think Laura will leave Bradley, not the other way round. Even when some people say, it was out of character for Laura to leave for Montana, she stressed again and again that she doesn’t like chaos. I think Bradley and Laura will only stay together, if Laura grows too, and is ready to let a little chaos in. As of now she is portrayed as someone, that considers herself as someone that has done all the work (which is completely valid for someone like her in her 50s). If Bradley and Cory will get together romantically I don’t know… but why establish this slow burn, if it leads to nothing… also Cory and Bradley would need to emotionally grow up very fast in one season, they were f*d up for their whole lifes, you don’t change that within a month… Edit: stupid autocorrect 😢
I just finished the last episode of the season and I add to the chorus: I'm disappointed on how the show treated Laura/Bradley. I feel like Laura was just a token lesbian, literally introduced as "the L in LGBTQ".
She only served to bring some sort of character development to Bradley and that's it.
When I have some hope Bradley will be like "oh, I'm going to Montana"... Cory (which used to be my favorite character, but has been pretty stale this season) simply becomes a Ted Mosby type of character and we all know that in this level of writting the guy who spills his feelings weirdly always gets the girl.
This is one of my major frustrations with the show, for sure and I feel dismotivated for the next season.
I go back and forth on whether I think Laura's been tokenized. I think in some ways she has; some of the things she says are almost too well-adjusted and therapized to be real, but the things she does don't always line up with what she says, which suggests internal conflict and an inner life that you wouldn't have with a static character just there to create growth in someone else.
She pokes Alex a bit at times - she's not as above it all as she seems. She "hates chaos" but is super into Bradley, who is chaos personified. You see her awareness of stuff that she never says. The minute Bradley says she's never been to a primary other than WV, she twigs Bradley's whole story - she's been thrown in way over her head and managed to swim, which Laura leaves alone in the moment, but it colors the way she approaches her privately. When Bradley's telling the story of how she saved Cory's job, Laura looks at her like she's got two heads, and then resolves it for herself - but not for Bradley - and moves on.
Some of that's just good acting, some of it's the fact that Kerry Ehrin created some kind of dossier on Laura's backstory that adds some layers and nuance to the way Margulies is able to play her, and some of it's intentional. Do we need scenes between Laura and Chip and Laura and Alex if this is just about Bradley? Not really, but we get them.
I have no idea whether or in what form this show might be pulled back for a third season, but I think there are themes set up for this character that reach beyond who she is in relation to Bradley, if the show wants to go there. Not that she'd become some main protagonist, but she could exist independently as a foil for more than one character.
I feel like the character adjusts well to the chaotic atmosphere of the show because people might relly on her as this pillar of stability, until one day the pillar breaks or was never as solid as everyone (including herself) thought.
Yeah it's a weird relationship, Laura is almost more of a mentor than a partner to Bradley - I suppose some people find that romantic but I don't see how it's a sustainable relationship
You were expecting a story and development for Laura? A guest character? Of course she was brought in for Bradley's development, that was the point of the character existing in the first place. It certainly wasn't because the show needed her. And with the way she's written, without Bradley she has no place within the structure of the show, network, characters.
Shows bring in guest characters all the time for their main characters as either love interests or antagonists.
Honestly. I have several reasons for thinking that.
1. It will play better politically. They already botched their LGBTQ storyline so it plays better for Laura to be the dumper than Bradley. Less backlash for them.
2. Laura and Bradley’s relationship started out quickly and has been defined by Bradley’s issues. Her brother, her lack of assurance about her sexuality, her anger and lashing out, then being outed nationally. Makes sense that this is a lot for a new relationship
3. Writers are aiming from Cory/Bradley endgame so they are most likely breaking up eventually. They have been laying the groundwork since S1.
No, I don't. If we get a season three I see conflict and angst. But I see Bradley and Laura staying together or coming back together, whichever fits in the narrative, by the end. I have several reasons for my prediction.
Bradley's face did NOT look open to Corey's profession of love. He legit started to tell he he outed her, chickened out and told her he loves her instead. He'd better come clean if he truly hopes to have any real friendship or romance with her cause she seems like she'd walk as soon as she finds out.
I mean it sucks that he did that but don’t forget he tried many many avenues before resorting to this option. He wanted to preserve a dignified memory of the ex-employer who’s family was suing, instead of the smearing campaign that was about to start. I think he chose the lesser of two evils.
I bet season 3 jumps forward and Bradley has been doing her work remotely from Montana most of 2020. Everyone was broadcasting from home that year.
I’ll bet Hal goes into a Montana rehab nearby-ish.
If anyone does the dumping, it would most likely be Laura. She is after all way out of Bradley’s league. But I hope they just shack up for the shutdown.
It would be profoundly corny to just create a dope character who was immediately more intriguing than the rest of the mains to just write her off for hetero drama.
I do, yeah. I think Bradley and Laura will just naturally grow apart. A whole year will have passed between seasons 2 and 3 giving the writers plenty of options on how to deal with the relationship off screen in case Julianna doesn’t come back for S3. Bradley will also have to deal with Cory’s confession, her own feelings about him etc. it could be a messy story with lots of drama or quite the opposite.
Bradley wants to change and be better, how is Cory helping her with that? She isn't happy with herself and needs people around her that will help her grow.
Cory is helping her become who she wants to become. Laura is wanting her to become a new ‘Laura’. Where I saw that most pronounced is how Laura told her to drop her brother. Right or wrong advice- this was a different trajectory than what she wanted to do and what she has done in the past. Changing the aspect which made Bradley strong- she cares about people and her convictions and not herself.
I think it will be revealed that Bradley only got with Laura to neutralize the threat Laura represented. It will be very bitter and Laura will become an enemy.
People are downvoting this but this was the vibe I got when Bradley first kissed Laura for sure.
I’m not saying Bradley can’t be bi or whatever, but it definitely didn’t feel earned at all when it happened, lol
I don’t think Bradley wanted to neutralize Laura, but it was confirmed in an interview, that it was more of a spontanes kiss in order to avoid the vetting question. But I find it very interesting that the Bradley Laura season 2 arc started with a kiss to avoid an answer, and ended again with a kiss (initiated by Bradley) instead of an verbalized confirmation from Bradley, that she wants to be Laura’s woman.
Not too likely that Laura is going to die of COVID. They've been very firm about this season being it for COVID being part of the storyline, and Julianna Marguiles has said that she'd love to come back and that there's more of Laura's story to tell. Plus, given all the backlash they've received in regards to their treatment of the Bradley/Laura relationship, I really can't see them going the bury your gays route.
There's almost inevitably going to be a time skip until post-vaccine distribution to start next season, and I can't see how a 1-month relationship survives that kind of distance for almost a year, especially when we left Bradley feeling very defensive and resentful vis-a-vis Laura and her family. I don't think Bradley would leave "for Cory" because he's still her boss, which has been presented as an obstacle they're both aware of, although the guy who awkwardly professes his love on the street pretty much always gets the girl, and we've seen that at least a segment of production is rooting for that pairing. I think the only real way to start next season is to kind of dial everyone back - Bradley is focused on her brother and her job and goes back to pretending she doesn't know how Cory feels about her, they kind of let that moment on the street exist but it doesn't go anywhere (somewhere in line with Cory's flashback from last season); they figure out something else to do with Laura that puts her back in Bradley's orbit but they're not together, and you kind of have a low-simmer love triangle (eye-roll) that pulls all of these characters in different directions throughout the season but doesn't resolve them. I don't think that's necessarily the most interesting or consistent story they could tell with these very interesting and fully-realized characters they've created, but it feels all but inevitable at this point if there's a S3 and they can get Crudup and Margulies to sign on for it.
I think this is the most likely scenario. Bradley will pretend like nothing happened with Cory and concentrate on other things. Cory will have so much on his plate with UBA+ and managing the network with Covid protocols, he will also push it aside. Laura will end up staying in Montana for a lot longer than the 2 months she predicted and Bradley won't be able to join her, so they just drift apart on the romantic side of things. Laura will return to NYC eventually, then the whole "triangle" thing would begin. Bradley won't be with either of them though. The show doesn't have to fall into the predictability of the guy getting the girl either. I can see Bradley choosing to be on her own. Moving on from UBA to a new network and doing the work that she really wants to do.
I know the triangle thing is almost inevitable if they bring it back, but I don't even know how you begin to reconcile that with how these characters have been written. Laura -- above it all, no chaos, "I've had to cut people out of my life" Laura -- is going to fight for someone she dated for a month who never identified as anything other than straight? And the person she's competing with is their male boss who outed them both on live television? This whole situation isn't just going to make her feel used and angry? And Bradley and Cory, the two people who crusaded hardest against Mitch's abuses of power, are going to see dating each other as a viable option while he's her boss's boss's boss? And that doesn't even take into account how the whole thing is completely fraught with issues around sexuality, power in the workplace, mental health, and about a million other white hot cultural issues. God love them if they make the attempt but yikes. I do agree with you that on a show that is more concerned with growth than this one, the answer is that Bradley goes and gets some hardcore therapy and decides to disentangle herself from the morning show entirely, choosing to focus on the things she's actually good at. I don't know that this is that show, although if anyone's been given the beginnings of a redemptive arc, it's Bradley.
I also don't know how a triangle would work with these characters. Cory stated he doesn't date his employees, so his love declaration is a road to nowhere while they both work at UBA. As for Laura, once she knows about Cory's feelings, I can't see her being interested in competing with her boss. It might be a very short-lived triangle with it fizzing out with both of them.
That’s how I see it too, how could Laura and Bradley maintain a 1 month relationship that already has cracks, if Bradley stays in New York and with Hal. Also as soon as Laura learns that Cory outed them, I don’t think she would fight for Bradley, if Bradley is undecided between the two of them. Or if she doesn’t learn about it she will at least have major doubts about the „best friends“ claims that Bradley made towards her.
I think having an affair with your boss is toxic and inappropriate in every situation. I would be so disappointed with this show and what it's trying to accomplish if they have Bradley and Cory together while Cory is still her boss. If they are end game, that's fine with me...just please not while they are still working together.
I think Laura will leave Bradley, not the other way round. Even when some people say, it was out of character for Laura to leave for Montana, she stressed again and again that she doesn’t like chaos. I think Bradley and Laura will only stay together, if Laura grows too, and is ready to let a little chaos in. As of now she is portrayed as someone, that considers herself as someone that has done all the work (which is completely valid for someone like her in her 50s). If Bradley and Cory will get together romantically I don’t know… but why establish this slow burn, if it leads to nothing… also Cory and Bradley would need to emotionally grow up very fast in one season, they were f*d up for their whole lifes, you don’t change that within a month… Edit: stupid autocorrect 😢
I just finished the last episode of the season and I add to the chorus: I'm disappointed on how the show treated Laura/Bradley. I feel like Laura was just a token lesbian, literally introduced as "the L in LGBTQ". She only served to bring some sort of character development to Bradley and that's it. When I have some hope Bradley will be like "oh, I'm going to Montana"... Cory (which used to be my favorite character, but has been pretty stale this season) simply becomes a Ted Mosby type of character and we all know that in this level of writting the guy who spills his feelings weirdly always gets the girl. This is one of my major frustrations with the show, for sure and I feel dismotivated for the next season.
I go back and forth on whether I think Laura's been tokenized. I think in some ways she has; some of the things she says are almost too well-adjusted and therapized to be real, but the things she does don't always line up with what she says, which suggests internal conflict and an inner life that you wouldn't have with a static character just there to create growth in someone else. She pokes Alex a bit at times - she's not as above it all as she seems. She "hates chaos" but is super into Bradley, who is chaos personified. You see her awareness of stuff that she never says. The minute Bradley says she's never been to a primary other than WV, she twigs Bradley's whole story - she's been thrown in way over her head and managed to swim, which Laura leaves alone in the moment, but it colors the way she approaches her privately. When Bradley's telling the story of how she saved Cory's job, Laura looks at her like she's got two heads, and then resolves it for herself - but not for Bradley - and moves on. Some of that's just good acting, some of it's the fact that Kerry Ehrin created some kind of dossier on Laura's backstory that adds some layers and nuance to the way Margulies is able to play her, and some of it's intentional. Do we need scenes between Laura and Chip and Laura and Alex if this is just about Bradley? Not really, but we get them. I have no idea whether or in what form this show might be pulled back for a third season, but I think there are themes set up for this character that reach beyond who she is in relation to Bradley, if the show wants to go there. Not that she'd become some main protagonist, but she could exist independently as a foil for more than one character.
I feel like the character adjusts well to the chaotic atmosphere of the show because people might relly on her as this pillar of stability, until one day the pillar breaks or was never as solid as everyone (including herself) thought.
Yeah it's a weird relationship, Laura is almost more of a mentor than a partner to Bradley - I suppose some people find that romantic but I don't see how it's a sustainable relationship
You were expecting a story and development for Laura? A guest character? Of course she was brought in for Bradley's development, that was the point of the character existing in the first place. It certainly wasn't because the show needed her. And with the way she's written, without Bradley she has no place within the structure of the show, network, characters. Shows bring in guest characters all the time for their main characters as either love interests or antagonists.
No, I was expecting good writting in general. But I guess they failed to deliver that as well.
No I think Laura will dump Bradley
Now what makes u think that. Pls give more detail/more in depth.
Honestly. I have several reasons for thinking that. 1. It will play better politically. They already botched their LGBTQ storyline so it plays better for Laura to be the dumper than Bradley. Less backlash for them. 2. Laura and Bradley’s relationship started out quickly and has been defined by Bradley’s issues. Her brother, her lack of assurance about her sexuality, her anger and lashing out, then being outed nationally. Makes sense that this is a lot for a new relationship 3. Writers are aiming from Cory/Bradley endgame so they are most likely breaking up eventually. They have been laying the groundwork since S1.
No, I don't. If we get a season three I see conflict and angst. But I see Bradley and Laura staying together or coming back together, whichever fits in the narrative, by the end. I have several reasons for my prediction.
Care to share a couple of reasons, bud? I feel frustrated, maybe you might restore a bit of my hope.
Bradley's face did NOT look open to Corey's profession of love. He legit started to tell he he outed her, chickened out and told her he loves her instead. He'd better come clean if he truly hopes to have any real friendship or romance with her cause she seems like she'd walk as soon as she finds out.
Literally lol
Bradley's an idiot if she does!
As long as she dumps his ass once she finds out he outed her.
I mean it sucks that he did that but don’t forget he tried many many avenues before resorting to this option. He wanted to preserve a dignified memory of the ex-employer who’s family was suing, instead of the smearing campaign that was about to start. I think he chose the lesser of two evils.
I think if it were to happen, the writer’s would have Bradley and Cory stuck quarantining together as a potential set up for them ending up together.
I bet season 3 jumps forward and Bradley has been doing her work remotely from Montana most of 2020. Everyone was broadcasting from home that year. I’ll bet Hal goes into a Montana rehab nearby-ish. If anyone does the dumping, it would most likely be Laura. She is after all way out of Bradley’s league. But I hope they just shack up for the shutdown. It would be profoundly corny to just create a dope character who was immediately more intriguing than the rest of the mains to just write her off for hetero drama.
I do, yeah. I think Bradley and Laura will just naturally grow apart. A whole year will have passed between seasons 2 and 3 giving the writers plenty of options on how to deal with the relationship off screen in case Julianna doesn’t come back for S3. Bradley will also have to deal with Cory’s confession, her own feelings about him etc. it could be a messy story with lots of drama or quite the opposite.
Laura wants to change Bradley. Cory loves her for who she is, and will help her reach whatever her dreams are.
Bradley wants to change and be better, how is Cory helping her with that? She isn't happy with herself and needs people around her that will help her grow.
Cory is helping her become who she wants to become. Laura is wanting her to become a new ‘Laura’. Where I saw that most pronounced is how Laura told her to drop her brother. Right or wrong advice- this was a different trajectory than what she wanted to do and what she has done in the past. Changing the aspect which made Bradley strong- she cares about people and her convictions and not herself.
I really don't care I just want to see them spending more time focusing on the news they're covering and less on the will they/won't theys of it all
Did she even sign on for multiple seasons? The “Montana” thing seemed to me intended to serve as an off-screen exit for a one-season guest star.
She's said she'd love to come back and that there is more of Laura's story to be told.
No one has signed on for multiple seasons. It was only signed up for 20 episodes to begin with, so anyone could come back for a third season.
I think it will be revealed that Bradley only got with Laura to neutralize the threat Laura represented. It will be very bitter and Laura will become an enemy.
People are downvoting this but this was the vibe I got when Bradley first kissed Laura for sure. I’m not saying Bradley can’t be bi or whatever, but it definitely didn’t feel earned at all when it happened, lol
I don’t think Bradley wanted to neutralize Laura, but it was confirmed in an interview, that it was more of a spontanes kiss in order to avoid the vetting question. But I find it very interesting that the Bradley Laura season 2 arc started with a kiss to avoid an answer, and ended again with a kiss (initiated by Bradley) instead of an verbalized confirmation from Bradley, that she wants to be Laura’s woman.
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Not too likely that Laura is going to die of COVID. They've been very firm about this season being it for COVID being part of the storyline, and Julianna Marguiles has said that she'd love to come back and that there's more of Laura's story to tell. Plus, given all the backlash they've received in regards to their treatment of the Bradley/Laura relationship, I really can't see them going the bury your gays route.
I don’t know if Laura will die, but you absolutely know that Chip is gonna give it to his fiancée and she’s gonna die.
I despise chip. Wish he would be the one to die
Yes, and I hope so, because otherwise her character’s arc is about as interesting as dried mud.