The Morning Show's Nestor Carbonell on costly slip-ups and the threat of cancellation
Carbonell, who plays Yanko on Apple TV's The Morning Show, on cancel culture in modern media

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Nestor Carbonell, right, as Yanko Flores on The Morning Show Photo: Apple TV+
In this week’s episode of the Apple TV Plus drama The Morning Show, Nestor Carbonell’s Yanko Flores is a weatherman under siege. No, he’s not stuck in a snowdrift or facing an oncoming tornado. Instead he’s caught in a hurricane of online sentiment created after he flippantly uses a Native American term to describe his adoring relationship with Punxsatawney Phil.
Yanko apologizes, and he thinks that’s enough, but the internet soldiers on and Yanko faces real consequences for using a phrase he never knew was offensive. It’s a touch heavy handed, to be sure, but that’s The Morning Show for you.