Alyssa Mora When “The Morning Show” resumed production on Season 2 after shutting down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the story pivoted to chronicle the first few months of COVID’s burgeoning spread. The result is a season that expands to a more global scale — but one production designer Nelson Coates had to approach with a limited set of options.“There were a lot of areas that were off the table,” Coates says of locations hesitant to allow the return of film shoots.