(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. ...