Why is The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel So Modern? | The Takeaway | Prime Video 

This video misunderstood the end of season 4 I think. It wasn't Lenny who was just lowering himself, it was Midge who had been on her high horse all season and needed to get off. Season 4 is all about the less likeable sides of Midge. I mean, it starts with her at her pettiest and most upsetting.

i was glad they got lenny back on this season, his actor is so good

The major omission from this analysis is that Midge can *afford* to try and fail - because she's from a *wealthy* family. She doesn't have as much to lose as a working class woman of her time would. I love the series, but if you cannot acknowledge the role social class plays in the show, then all the feminist points are moot.

I loved this last season of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. I loved seeing the moving parts of imminent conflict between Midge's choice to only headline. While she was enjoying headlining at a burlesque club, Susie was trying to establish herself as a manager, which was dependent on Midge's lucrative success. And then it all culminated to Lenny's wake-up speech. She was hiding, and enjoying the break from public humiliation so much that she lost sight of her real love of performing.

This was an intelligent, perceptive exploration of this show - a show that is truly "more than" a show. When I viewed the very first episode I asked, "Where did this come from?" - the "pitter-patter" of Noises Off, the ambiance of NY in the late 50s, the stinky beer smelling dirty floor lower Manhattan comedy / coffee clubs. It was incredible how this show captured all of this so well in just its very first episode. I know there's only one more season, S5, to go, which is a shame. If NCIS can start when I'm in diapers, and continue until, well, I'm in Depends, why can't Mrs Maisel? This subject is so rich, so relevant, so encompassing, so 'out there', after the final series ends, it really should be made into a movie. The times it portrays were revolutionary. Everyone "remembers" the sixties, and The Beatles - but it was so much more than that, and so much of it began in smelly dirty coffee clubs in lower Manhattan. I won't re-comment what's been said in this video, which encapsulated this show so well, but this was the time of Kennedy - not Biden. It was the time of Martin Luther King, riots and assassinations. The advent of birth control pills and sexual revolution, not Cardi Bi. It was love fests, not disco balls. It was when people listened to an album by a poet out of California, and would then sit around in a circle in someone's living room to discuss the deeper meaning of everything this poet was saying. It was when mere "words" might change one's life. When a cartoonist in the Village Voice carried more relevance than anything on TV at the time. Please - PLEASE - P L E A S E - don't kill off this show and these characters. There is too much story here to tell. This show makes a mockery of all the current amateur efforts of pushing "wokism" by just being real to a time when these issues were new, relevant, visionary, hopeful. Right now the times are changing exceedingly fast, offering a very uncertain future - much like "the sixties". Please keep this show going, perhaps in a movie of film, so that what was then can be layered over what is now. We, as humans, deserve to know what we were, what was the best of us, so that we can seek a better "us" tomorrow. Mrs. Maisel can do this!! I believe in her.

A good thesis about breaking barriers to women but Midge had no right to "out" Shy or embarrass Mary or Jackie Kennedy. That just makes her sloppy and so not serving her career or relationships at all.

I think season 4 is their weakest season, but it did end very strong!! Excited for season 5!!

The show has basically become a bunch of loosely connected vignettes. Also Midge says she's best when she is just herself but in reality she needs the structure of rules. She doesn't get anywhere during this season really.

I hope they fix Midge, season 4 she was a little annoying to watch. Heck, even I got pissed off about the Tony gig. Like, I don't understand Midge, she wants to be a successful comedian but she doesn't want to censor herself....even though she can barely afford her apartment and care for her family. Do you see where I am going with this?

The show nearly shot itself in the leg with the Shy Baldwin storyline early on in this latest season, but I'm glad they were able to salvage it the end.

Okay so we're just not going to talk about how that "revenge" bit was Midge getting "revenge" after she was let go from a tour for...outing the Black gay performer she was opening for at the Apollo right before he went on, a situation that caused far more severe harm to him than to her, plus some serious fallout for others, including him being compelled to enter a loveless marriage arranged for him by his handlers (with his bride seemingly unaware of what she's signing up for), & losing the involvement of his lifelong best friend & protector in his career to instead be surrounded by a mob of white men surveilling his every move with the explicit goal of preventing him from ever acting on his genuine desires again? Nah, go go Midge, modern feminist or whatever. tbf, the willingness to overlook that lil detail (merely the premise the first half of the season is based on) to talk about Midge as a modern woman does kinda tell on the ongoing troubling state of contemporary white feminism, so...sure. Perfectly Modern Midge.

I was disappointed the writers won't explore Midge's darker side. The way she betrays Sophie Lennon, who she doesn't agree with but was on her side, and Shy Baldwin, who was a true friend and as a gay, black artist back then could've lost everything because of her set, deserved analysis. But no. For the writers she's still a victim and a heroine and don't want to venture on what was going inside her or her motives, making her one dimensional.

yes!!! Always down for more The Take videos :)

Women rule the world they just forgot to tell us. Powerful!!!!

With midge missing her son’s birthday She technically did not miss his actual birthday just the part that they did two months after his actual birthday. A thing that her parents have suspiciously done multiple times over her own childhood.

Absolutely love this series, I have enjoyed every minute!!

I enjoyed every minute of it. Talented actress. Loved her agent as she grew from where she started to dressing and knowledge she learned along the way.

love this show and Miriam but it seems it may be going the same route as Gilmore Girls. where the great and flawed main character(s) never really experience any legitimate growth or reckoning with their wrong doings

Thanks for that video.

I ❤️ this show! I've watched each episode multiple times, that's how much I love it! 🙌 The 4th season is AMAZING! 🌟🌟🌟 I'm upset there's only going to be 5 seasons. 😔

Great video well done. Love Midge .

My favorite show!

Emily: Richard how could you say that Richard: oh it was just something your father said Emily: yes but you are repeating it This was in GG in that DAR function the Rory hosted with the 40's theme, it seemed like the blue prints for MM its a statement on historical fiction, that like in mad men, while criticizing it, the modern audience is clearly enamored with it and indulge in it by watching the show, even if they probably shouldn't

Well done!

Love the show!!! No number of mistakes or criticisms matter!!!

I'm still waiting to see Rachel Brosnahan and Evan Rachel Wood standing next to each other in the exact same place at the exact same time lol.

i'm on the fence with her finally sleeping with lenny. it was a long time coming but the tension was part of their charm.

love this show 💕

Mrs Masel has joined the great loves of my life. Starting with Jeanne, Mary Ann, Barbara Cooper, and a couple others, she is the perfect wife. Funny, beautiful, well dressed, excellent cook, lives for her man It is interesting to see how she has grown

Why do they make Midge smoke, when Brosnahan is obviously not a smoker IRL?

❤❤❤ I freakin’ love Midge. Watched the entire series. Best show on tv 📺!!!

I admired her

I love Midge Maisel💖

My inner life on film..

I thought every Friday new episode so what happened last Friday..sure was a let down..

Entertainments are primarily for women...note all the ads on commercial entertainments. The modern girl in the past is a popular screenplay. Sucessful writers know what works. So her authentic self is a 2023 woman in beautiful 1950s/early 60s clothes.

Lois Griffin's office, how may I help?

This series is superb on so many levels It’s shows just directionless current feminism is, cannibalising itself from absolute boredom

Okay somebody was supposed to give a spoiler alert for season 4 some of us here are saving it!

I think Midge Maisel is cute!

Lots of Duchess Satin in the wardrobe.

Strong female character done right

Too bad this series end on season 5

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A man won't judge u foe not being perfecr. Other women will

The show was great for the first couple of seasons, but then it completely stagnated. The final season was absolutely awful. It's like the writer's strike sent Prime Video to go and use scripts submitted from a high school essay contest, each episode written by a different student. There was no growth arc, we never got to see Midge become successful, and then all of a sudden we're told she's been famous for years. It was so cringe. I wish I had just stopped after she got fired from the Sly tour.

I enjoy the show but none of the comedians are funny. The show is pure escapism for me which I need so I hope it has a long run.

Back then they would NOT allow her to use profanity in her stand-up routine ! It was consider low-income for male or females to use “potty mouth”

There were some period incorrect references in the first episode of the current season that just turned me off so I haven't felt compelled to watch further.

Iconic female of her times? I don’t think so. A vain, selfish, shallow woman who doesn’t go in for much self examination or compassion. I don’t see why season 4 isn’t being universally panned.

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I was a kid growing up during this time and place (NYC/LI area) and am a big fan of the show. But like AMC's Mad Men..for the most part, those days have come and gone. Today most women can do whatever they want making it much tougher to blame men for frustrations/unhappiness. In the end, women's own biology, not men or society...have the ultimate say. It will be very interesting to see where they go with Midge in the Final Season 5, as much of society's dynamics...made MANY changes from the mid '60s to the early '70s and beyond. I know as someone who graduated from HS outside of NYC in 1972. Those were crazy times...

14:11 I think the twist by the end of the show is that despite her stage name being "the Marvelouse Mrs. Maisel" and her stand up was about being wife and mother, Midge was never Really a mother because she was on the road the whole time, and she literally wasn't a wife because she started her career when she separated. I don't think the show is going to punish her or anything, it will just be the silent, heartbreaking acknowledgment that you don't know your children at all because you didnt watch them grow up, and while you are their mother, you will never be as close as you could have been, simply because you weren't there. I don't think this is the mainstream judging women, I think it is women talking to women "my dad was gone 6 days a week and no one batted an eye" maybe they should have

Arrogant women never respect marriage!

Can we talk about Rose's and Midge's fatphobia? Will Rose at least learn not everyone has to be her or Midge to be desirable? EDIT: Everyone offended by what I notice seems to have a real issue with me bringing it up.

Boringgggg

Now that we have Hacks, this show's pretty much useless.