The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

you wish he was a baller?

he has a girl who looks good
you should call her

be easier to pull a rabbit out of a hat
also they repoed my '64 Impala

"When I was three I could resole a shoe."

I know the actor who played Red Skelton (at the Copa) in episode 4.

(who is funny and talented, and knows his vintage comedy, but neither looks or sounds like Red)

I own the Mort Sahl LP she's listening to in ep 5

are you enjoying it?

mostly

i'm glad she bombed TWICE in the fifth episode; bout time

my favorite thing in S1 is episode 3 when she gets stoned for the first time with Lenny & the band

season 3 is dreadful

glee with namedropping of ppl that nobody cares about or arent real

lenny bruces top cat routine is getting worse

disagree on Lenny - one of Lenny’s best epidodes is in this season!

s3 is definitely a slog at first but it comes together really well in the last few episodes

hmmph ok we'll see

Midge is a self-saboteur, as the Jane Lynch episode proved. Infuriating.

i am glad you are sticking with it!

s1 finale a little heavy on the Midge-Joel content (also he's no Sal Mineo per the final insult), but loved Shalhoub's "I will have to kill you." The Lenny rescue seemed a little forced too.

Not read the full thread - is this worth sticking with? I liked S1 well enough but s2 is a bit boring (up to ep4 or 5 so far). Too much Midge's mother, not enough hustle, also don't massively care about Joel unless they actually go into why he cheated in the first place...?

Yeah I left it around the same episodes iirc. Not that I disliked it anymore. But I didn’t feel like knowing more about what happened to these characters (never like Joel so him being more present was a pain)... I may go back at some point though.

Love her parents though !

I'd encourage you to keep at it. All the characters bring their own rewards in the end.

Season 1 is probably the best but I enjoyed sticking with it

stay the course, chaps

I think the writers are aware that they neglect the children, and have turned it into a bit of a running gag.

my wife was the kids' age at the time and yes she thinks this is deliberate, the kids really are secondary and the maid takes care of them

100%

I hit a wall in S3 and haven't come back to it (after x and y get married). I guess I should, but I can't imagine S4 is coming anytime soon.

s3 is worth seeing to the end

S4 is going to be a cartoon

the back half of S3 is the chunk of the show with the lowest annoying-to-entertaining ratio, possibly

agreed

rewatching for the nth time (i lost count)
i still love this show so much

(also i love that morbs ended up watching the show. rereading this thread makes me miss that bitchy old grouch <3)

Cute John Waters cameo in s3 e4.
i dont care, i still love this show, will never stop loving this show

s4 e4 i meant

the strip club stuff is really charming imo

spoilers for end of season 03

End of last season she outed a famous black man and, much as I love her, got what she deserved. I'd thought the show understood that.

S04e01 this is now being cast as yet another unfair setback that Midge will raise up from, via one of her worst stand up performances yet.

Does she get called out on this as the season progresses?

no
but also it’s not that kind of show
there are consequences for midge to a point, but how much calling out can you really expect when the main character is inherently “marvellous” yknow

Yeah I'm all for the show being frothy and consequence free but then they didn't have to have her do that in s3 lol. Could've gotten some setback that actually wasn't her fault.

Maisel Goys podcast makes a valid point - the start of this season is basically a reset: Midge is back in NY, and back with her parents (well, they're back with her, but ya know). There's going to be one more season after this - feels like very little time to catapult her into superstardom, which you'd think the series was gearing towards?

The needledrops in this series are great, they always have been really. Bought Barbara Streisand's first album recently for "Come To The Supermarket (In Old Peking)".

Something struck me as anachronistic on one of this season's episodes: Abe was watching tv and said something like, "I wish there was a way to pause it, or rewind it." One problem I had with that is the hackiness of it ("Get it? They're in olden times technology!"), but would anyone in 1961 have used "pause" in reference to a tv show, film, or even a sound recording? Reel-to-reel tape machines were (I think?) the only consumer product at the time that had a pause (or, for that matter, rewind) function, and those were mostly only used by audiophiles.

that moment was purely eye-rolly wink wink to the camera, something they don't usually do, and it was a bit annoying

I listened to a little bit of the actual Lenny Bruce Carnegie Hall concert after watching the final episode, and it's remarkable how much they've had to change just to make him comprehensible to a modern audience. His references and language are so of their time, it's difficult to follow him. You sort of don't notice it as much in the interviews and the books, I guess.

yeah i got quite into him in high school & somehow got a tape & i was like HUH 🙃 lol

i do really love this fictionalized version of Bruce though, its the best part of the series for me. it retains the air of sadness without making too much of a meal out of it.

and all those shots they did in the irl carnegie hall, looks so incredible

I'm assuming that next season we will be able to tick off more people on our Sherman-Palladino associate bingo cards, too.

i think this is the final season.

oh I guess there is one more

The clothes, the buttons, the chairs, the lamps. I almost missed the point of the very important conversation between Mae and Joel because I was trying to work out how I could get their dining table light fitting. That aubergine colour that Abe and Rose both wear. Their kitchen phone. And then poor Lenny on his way to LA. It's all too much.

so excited to watch the new eps!

i rewatched s4 last week & cried in so many parts, i had forgotten so many key moments!

so many great Abe moments but my favorite was when the woman had her hand on Abe’s thigh
Waiter: How are you liking it?
Abe, stricken: Liking WHAT!?

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