The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

I liked it a lot, but I also had some issues with the blatant weath and Midge's blatant ignorance of it in the face of her supposed friend's poverty that she *never fucking helped her out with*.

It's kind of the same issues people had with Lorelai. For some weird reason I thought Midge was more 1950s middle class for NYC? Her parents don't even own that apartment.

I literally have no clue because of all the hats and coats.

it is hard for me to figure out how her parents afford any of htat stuff (apartment, housekeeper?) on a professor's salary but I assume things were absurdly different in the 50's than they are now.

Tv made it seem like there were a lot of housekeepers.

I haven't watched this show but I enjoyed reading Emily Nussbaum's minority report on it.

Her list of less pretentious shows is odd (i've watched half of them, Ex GF, Glow, Younger, Broad City). But I agree that Joel is totally given a baffling amount of time.

Nussbaum otm

it is hard for me to figure out how her parents afford any of htat stuff (apartment, housekeeper?) on a professor's salary but I assume things were absurdly different in the 50's than they are now.

― akm, Thursday, December 27, 2018 1:11 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Columbia (where Abe teaches) owns the apartment. But yeah, things like flying to Paris weren't cheap.

Also -- and this bugged me way more than it should have -- the long distance calls between Paris and NYC were undertaken so casually, but that shit was expensive then! Those were $75 phone calls!

I have watched two episodes. I was put off within minutes by her comment about her fat college roommate and was hoping, but not really expecting, that to be addressed somehow. Also getting a Gilmore Girls-eque feeling that this somewhat obnoxious and oblivious characters is meant to be winning and adorable.
Still, I don't actually dislike Gilmore Girls, I just find the main characters kind of annoying sometimes. And I like the look of this, the warm artifice of the visuals. It seems soothing, I guess.

I watched GG while it was on regular tv and really loved it. When I rewatched it all again recently I was put off a couple of times by cringey jokes, frustrating behaviours. But even Broad City has stuff like trans jokes that stick out terribly upon rewatching now. I winced at some of Maisel, but a lot of what it has going for it was, like, customized for me. I decided I am going to make this my holiday viewing every year because of that artifice and fantasy nostalgia.

I am surprised they didn't get Kelly Bishop for the Catskills episodes.

midge's perky dewy wide-eyed perma-consternation is driving me up the wall

and her standup is bad not good, while everyone respectfully listens and laughs uproariously even on the NON LAUGH LINES

that nussbaum piece linked a few posts ago is soooo otm

There was a ersatz (though Jewish-run) deli in Toronto that served bad pastrami and played Barbara Streisand on the stereo and the goys loved it, but I hated it and think I have the same problem with this show.

I think it got noticeably worse in season 2

Agreed

I like the show more than Emily Nussbaum but I think one problem the show has is its humor lands less frequently than it would like, and it tries to get by on rapid-fire dialogue exchanges and spot-on timing with line readings, and the actors are almost good enough sometimes to make you realize there aren’t any jokes in the banter. It’s just banter.

Maybe the reason Bunheads remains the best Sherman-Palladino show is because it only lived for one season.

Blossom Dearie has been a revelation to me because of this wonderful series and soundtrack.

Weird about such Bunheads love. It was fine but always seemed like it was only starting to get settled by the end. Although I super did appreciate the "never get too friendly with elderly neighbors" recognition in the Sasha lives on her own episodes.

Blossom Dearie is way better than this show, thats for sure

A while ago I looked up all those Catskills resorts and they're all still around, if a little old fashioned and dowdy looking, but I'd love to stay in one!

same!

not true - Kutsher's is gone, it's being turned into a yoga resort

Sorry yeah I dont know why I said all, I maybe just meant the main one featured in the show.

i mean jeez trayce keep up

lol

god forbid a generalization have any kind of shelf life on ilx

Mrs. Maisel weekend at a Catskills resort!

https://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Catskills-resort-plans-Mrs-Maisel-weekend-14055397.php

So this happened today:

https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/15/police-halt-amazon-mrs-maisel-gas-promotion/

Santa Monica Police suspend an Amazon Prime promotion offering gas for 30 cents a gallon. Traffic issues are the big concern. Details coming up at 11am on ABC7. #maiselday pic.twitter.com/sJHQLcDUaK

— John Gregory (@abc7johngregory) August 15, 2019

A map and list of all the promos for the show: https://maiselday.com

I know advertisers go all out and it can get out of hand, but this I've probably never witnessed.

I don't really like sweets or desserts, but I have to admit I was nostalgic for SusieCakes today

Season 3 out. Watched first four or so. Some of it great, some starting to wear on me, Shy Baldwin is a really annoying character.

Most notably, it manages to portray scripted stand-up that doesn't make you want to die

Not really tbh, but otherwise this is great yes

Hmm, we watched the first two, and through of all Tony Shaloub's complaints about materialism, I just kept thinking, why didn't you stay in Paris, then? You could've just stayed in Paris, like your supposedly materialistic wife wanted to.

i just started ep 5 & i am enjoying the hell out of it so far. eps 1&2 felt a little off-kilter but otherwise it’s been good.

joe & the new girl may have such great chemistry.
and PARIS (i keep forgetting her real name, paris from gilmore girls), is in Shy’s band. Yay i was so excited to see her.

oh and I loved when Sterling K Brown sang is you is or is you aint my baby in ep 4 (or3?)

and Cary Elwes! :D :D

“i don’t hunt people down. the last time I hunted someone down was when Desi Arnaz gave me the clap.”

oh and Paris’s character is inspired by Carol Kaye bass player for the Wrecking Crew <3

LIZA WEIL

thats Paris’ name

sorry

Liza Weil has been on How To Get Away With Murder since Day 1 and it still freaks me out.

i tried watching that & couldnt hang
idk why

sorry back to Maisel

Kirby’s Lenny Bruce gets more achingly perfect, handsome & great every season

the fuck? Carol Keen was left-handed, but suddenly in the final episode she's [SPOILER ALERT] right-handed?

I really don't like Liza Weil in How to Get Away w/ Murd. We watched every season this year and it was nothing like I expected. It's completely ridiculous but I love watching Viola Davis.

i finished s3 of Mrs Maisel & loved it. that final scene on the runway, while not unexpected, was so so good.

i really loved the Sophie Lennon arc too

alexis borstein is just continually killing it on this show. Brosnahan is terrific too, but the way Borstein anchors so many of her scenes is just so fun to watch.

I found the Sophie Lennon side to be nails on chalkboard by the end. The mentor-mentee relationship between Susie & Sly’s manager was way more interesting and barely got any time, comparatively.

I also feel like the show started down a much darker trajectory this season - I mean at some points this was a fucking requiem with cheap jokes; gambling, blatant discrimination, drunken bad decisions, sober worse decisions, ending on a stillborn dream preceded by burning down your dead mom’s house for the insurance. The one upshot is dad’s new job at the Village Voice as the theater critic! 😜

on a separate note, I would totally buy the soundtracks for this show, if they made them. Don’t make me Shazam while I’m watching and then download stuff later, I’ll gladly pay for it all on a disc, yes I’m old.

yeah i would love to have the irl soundtrack

i find Abe’s trajectory very weird. he never really seemed like a mathematician in the first place

Maybe he wasn't.

the greatest trick the devil ever played was pretending he understood what "Gaussian elimination" meant

lol

Abe can be a brilliant mathematician by day, a huge theater fan at night, and a passionate socialist at heart, easily. He’s an exaggeration of a thoroughly real archetype, like most of the characters.

Elsewise how do we make sense of (more than) half the people who still stubbornly post to this goddamn messageboard? Half the people here talking shit about Star Wars are just real world Abes, maybe diminutive compared to him, but he’s made for TV.