‘The Morning Show’ Director Mimi Leder Breaks Down Bradley’s Return, That Unexpected Action Scene and the Politics of the Season 4 Premiere

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers for the Season 4 premiere of “The Morning Show.”

“The Morning Show” is back, and with it comes a whole new web of scandals and crises.

Titled “My Roman Empire,” the Season 4 premiere begins with Alex (Jennifer Aniston), Stella (Greta Lee) and Ubn’s new sports chief Ben (William Jackson Harper) presenting to the “Tms” staff about how the network will use AI in its Olympics coverage in order to translate Alex’s reports into countless languages. Various staff members, unsurprisingly, bristle at the announcement, and voice their fears that they’ll lose their jobs to AI,…