(And give all the episode’s best lines to Jane Lynch’s muted but monstrous Sophie Lennon: “The last time I had to track someone down was to tell Desi Arnaz he gave me the clap. Maisel, which makes it the perfect time to throw a wrench in their well-oiled machine. Now let’s turn our attention to (finally!) the show’s most lovable twosome: The Midge-Susie relationship continues to be both the strongest and the most entertaining element of The Marvelous Mrs. I wish it wasn’t so obvious that Mei is an attempt at inclusion in Maisel’s predominantly white Jewish universe, but it’s better than avoiding the issue, so let’s see where this goes. She’s a Chinatown local whose family is totally running an illegal gambling den attached to the too-good-to-be-true club Joel just bought. (Though I would hold off on comparing yourself to Gandhi there, Abe.)Īs for its diversity problem, Maisel is making inroads with the Shy Baldwin character, his ten-person-deep entourage, and a new love interest for Joel (Michael Zegen) in the form of Mei (Stephanie Hsu).
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Now that he’s been arrested for defending Lenny Bruce’s (Luke Kirby) right to free speech, he’s completely fired up. This financial wake-up call only fuels Abe’s reawakened activist side from the end of last season. A trust fund that allowed for an entire room to be devoted to their daughter’s skirts, and Abe the luxury of wearing exercise rompers - and two sweaters at a time. But their seemingly bottomless bank account wasn’t the product of residing in an Amy Sherman-Palladino fantasy world. Now that Abe has quit his tenured professor position at Columbia University, he and Rose are facing a precarious future (the Ivy League school owns their luxurious Upper West Side apartment). One thing that I very much appreciate is that this new season of Maisel is exhibiting a little more self-awareness, toward both the characters’ extravagant lifestyles and its homogenous look. If you’re dying to know what happened with Midge’s almost-fiancé Benjamin, then you’re watching the wrong show. So sink your teeth into lines like, “I’m sorry you’re not fornicating with syphilitic poets!” and “I had to talk to a doorknob that was alive,” and lose yourself in a classic exchange between Midge and Susie (Alex Borstein) about dick jokes.
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Season three feels far more episodic than the show has previously, which I think is a wise move for a series whose strengths lie in its rapid-fire repartee, not its narrative. Maisel is a lot easier to accomplish when you embrace its froth and don’t worry about things like the reality factor, or the plot. It’s like I said in last year’s recaps: Enjoying a show like The Marvelous Mrs. (Now, I love a good tap-dance number, but this was a big yawn compared to last season’s switchboard ballet.) Also, if Rose (Marin Hinkle) and Abe (Tony Shalhoub) not showing up until 33 minutes into the episode is going to be a regular thing, then I’m warning you now, Palladinos - we’re going to have some serious problems here. However, there was no reason for this episode to clock in at 58 minutes when so much of that time was usurped by a tap-dance number. I understand that the centerpiece needed to be the New York–based USO show that serves as Midge’s (Rachel Brosnahan) warm-up for her new job opening for crooner Shy Baldwin (Leroy McClain). It was delicious and pleasing, but much of it was superfluous. Watching “Strike Up the Band” felt like ingesting a second Thanksgiving dinner. I didn’t want to have them, but unfortunately, Maisel continues to suffer from the kind of season-premiere-itis it displayed in last year’s “ Simone.” And this time around, the episode doesn’t have the luxury of hiding behind the city of Paris to obscure its flaws. The bad news is, I have a lot of complaints about its first episode, “Strike Up the Band,” which Sherman-Palladino wrote and directed.
Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino has ensured all of the best parts of her Emmy-winning series - the splashy production values, the snappy dialogue between her characters - are in top form. I’ve got good news and bad news: The good news is, the third season of Amazon Prime Video’s The Marvelous Mrs.
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