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Mrs. Maisel

(Does that place look like Yonah Schimmel?)


Mrs. Maisel is like Dickenson, it's a modern drama with modern sensibilities injected into it. It doesn't clang like hip hop in Amherst in 1850. 

I love casting. Nice goy girl from Milwaukee to pay a Jewish woman from NYC. The Jewish woman plays an Italian immigrant's child (Borstein). Two people are from Wisconsin, Brosnahan and Shalhoub. Shalhoub is a genius, I think, though the whole cast is amazing. Shalhoub is Lebanese Mennonite Christian from Wisconsin Green Bay. I guess everywhere is a melting pot, not just NYC. Brosnahan parents are British and of Irish descent. Suzy Meyerson, not really an Italian name, is a great character too played by Borstein.

A stand up comedy show that isn't funny. Now that's funny. It's by Amy Sherman-Palladino who did Gilmore Girls, so there's quick snappy dialogue, and a confrontation of the generations and changing times. She plugs all the right things and makes it articulate. Mrs. Maisel is a medley of cinematic moments, snappy drama and self development. Nobody listens and everyone misreads each other. She wishes she could be unconventional in seeing unconventional challenge the conventional, but it's pretty conventional. She always have women with big appetites, that's her thing, but they can sometimes struggle with it.

She has impeccable taste in music. The show is Hollywood absurd with water ballet and grand scenes. 

Great one liners, "I haven't seen anyone look at me that way since I had my mother deported." Jane Lynch as Sophie Lennon.

See lots of old friends. Paris (Liza Weil) from Gilmore Girls is the bass player for Shy Baldwin. 

Well developed characters, this show passes the Bechdel test.


The last episode comes out today (2/11/22) but I'm on 3:6, not 4:8.

I'm going to savor this show, because there aren't that many shows that are as good as this.

This is an unusually good show, not without its flaws. Sometimes the preaching is strident. So what! I'd rather the writer was trying to inculcate a message than observe nihilism.

As the show grows, it slows down necessarily from the manic portions, and backstory, and character development occurs.

For the opposite perspective. Doesn't hit the mark for me, but always good to read opposing viewpoints.

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