The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

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.

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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

i usually just watch one ep per day. i can't binge anything an hour or longer.

there's not that many eps so

I guess this is a dramedy, I wanted a sitcom.

Season 3 is a visual tour de force it must be restated.

I'm having a hard time getting through S3 because I don't like the characters anymore I think. I'm somewhere in the middle, but I'll power through.

i predict morbs eventually hates this show, but then i fuckin hate this show

I keep thinking about season three but after spending all day locked up with a manic extroverted 5 year old starring a 1 hour show at 9:30pm feels like a huge slog

I can't count how many films I've seen where the first 20 to 30 minutes are excellent and fun and then they peter out in weaknesses brought on by clumsy plot exposition, complications, and resolution, because their early strength had nothing to do with the strength of their storyline. Series are not immune to this, either. Beginnings are easy, developments and endings are hard.

I'm 3 episodes into this, and it's pretty entertaining, BUT... the thing that most annoys me is that Midge has gone on stage 3 times and KILLED entirely by IMPROVISING, apparently. A sheltered UWS princess with no stage experience? Even the greats have told stories about dying in their early sets. I know it's not a documentary, but the plausibility matches that Tom Hanks-Sally Field film Punchline. I'm looking forward to seeing if she ever bombs.

It also feels like this show started with the production design, costume design, music clearances, and enough budget to redress those Village streets, which is not cheap.

Almost everybody gets funny shit to say, esp the dykey manager. Tony Shalhoub is very convincing and funny, but the shocker is that Kevin Pollak (who I've never liked much at all) is even better! "The thirteen Jews..."

Another anachronism complaint: the Friars Club scene starts with the fanfare of "Comedy Tonight." That's 1962.

yeah there's a bit of suspension of disbelief in her early abilities, she comes across as a savant in her first few improv gigs, then her first few planned gigs are terrible even though it would seem she's sharp-witted enough to plan material if she can do it off the dome like that.

I just rode with it, it's not realistic obv

Pollack is so good; Shalhoub really comes into his own in the back half of Season 1, it takes a while for his character to really build up a head of steam

Pollak is hilarious in the bank loan scene in Season 2

"YOU...are *not* a Jew!"

I love all the parents so much. Her stand up skills go downhill pretty badly, it is a little strange.

I love this show. I kind of think Morbs will enjoy enough about it before bailing because of storyline or something. But I can't get enough of sets and costumes and colors and pitter/patter. My only real gripe is Joel. I really had hopes he would get run over by a horse and carriage or fall off a fire escape etc etc spoiler.

oh yeah he sucks bad

he should have been eaten by a feral mountain lion by Ep 2

he's a shitty ex/husband alright, tot foxy actor tho

morbs otm

alex borstein my favorite, then Lenny

Also Midge paraphrased Dr Spock's baby book as saying "You got this." Give me a break, I never heard that til five years ago.

Joel....foxy????!!!

he is a quintessential Cute Jewish Boy, even though the character is a monster

it's pretty clearly indicated that what brought the two of them together was laughs and sex, not necessarily in that order

The laughs come during the sex

Joel is v handsome imo

Yerac favors men of a certain stature iirc

he played randall on Walking Dead! I did see him Brooklyn (the movie) last year.

now I had to search for how tall he is.

i looked it up

he’s 5’8”

He wish he were a little bit taller

you wish he was a baller?

he has a girl who looks good
you should call her