The funniest thing that’s happened on television this fall is a ten-second sequence in the finale of The Morning Show in which Marion Cotillard runs down a hallway in slow motion while “Porcelain” by Moby plays. As soon as I saw it on a screener, I burst out laughing, hit the go-back-ten-seconds button, and replayed it again and again. My co-workers looked on with concern and confusion, so I played the clip for them, and they laughed too. Maybe not as much as I did, but c’est la vie. They did not know the whole history of Celine Dumont, which is, of course, the name of Cotillard’s character, and did not quite understand how hilarious it is that Celine and her immaculate bob are running down a hallway clutching a gigantic purse and wearing equally as gigantic strapped heels. They did no

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