The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

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.

fair enough

[imagines Tony Shalhoub as Morbius]

*cries*

I'm just a bunch of slugs wearing a trenchcoat

I don't know if I like the direction the hats have taken this season.

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

I watched the pilot last night. Promising! I wish I didn't know the lead's last name is Brosnahan bcz now she seems too goyishe to me.

The guy who plays Lenny seems more like him than I was expecting. I thought the period was earlier, but Newhart on Ed Sullivan Show pegs it as 1960.

Morbius I hope you love this show

x-post Nah, they fudge the dates. It's still supposed to be set in the '50s, but somehow Newhart is already famous from his first album

Lenny’s irl daughter spent time on set & gave her seal of approval - it’s a great performance.

show’s technically set in 58 but like josefa says they fudge some dates here & there

i love all the gaslight stuff, could watch a series of that alone

i was randomly talking to my seatmate on a plane and we were talking about Maisel love and i realized I had mysteriously never watched the last episode of season 3. so we just watched it last week. so perk extra episode. she also told me that brosnahan is kate spade's niece which I hadn't known.

i hope morbs likes it too.

we’re all counting on you morbs 😂

that kind of historical cheating already pisses me off

i know, i get it ... but you gotta let it slide

wait... is every episode an hour? cuz that's too long

MORBS