One thing I love about innovative technology is the flexibility to stream shows at your own pace. I watched the first season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and I can’t wait for the next one to be available. According to The New York Times, the second season will happen since The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is the first show that Amazon has renewed based on the strength of the pilot along. The show is enchanting, dreaming and inspiring, not to mention hilarious. Rachel Brosnahan is Miriam “Midge” Maisel in the comedy show that is based in 1950’s New York. Midge is a privileged upper West Side housewife who has lived a sheltered life, wears couture clothes and is a perfectionist. She measures her entire body regularly to make sure she is not gaining any weight, wakes up in the middle of the night to take off her makeup and wakes up before her husband to put it back on so he doesn’t see her without make up. Crazy, ah…? That’s until her husband Joel (Michael Zegen), a frustrated stand up comedian leaves Midge for his secretary. She is forced to give up her gorgeous 50’s period apartment and goes with her two children to live with her parents, who live in the same building. Both apartments, hers and her parents’ are designed to die for, showing the best of the 50’s decorations.
The show starts with Midge giving the toast at her own wedding party, which is hilarious by the way. She is a natural comedian, but the 50’s wasn’t suitable for women to have a voice of their own. Not until she is left and heartbroken she realizes that she has a voice and decides to make it heard. She finds an advocate in Susie Myerson (Alex Borstein) who becomes her manager. I adore Susie’s character, her sarcastic personality is awakening. Susie encourages Midge to start performing at a Greenwich Village club, the Gaslight Café. Midge does her unprompted stand up shows while equally delighting and outraging the audience. Let’s say that her type of comedy is very particular. She makes fun of her own personal experiences instead of fabricating scenarios. I can’t be more in love with Midge’s character. She is gracious, lovely, energetic, positive and uber funny. I just hope Amazon continues renewing it because the entire show is a delight to watch from the fashion to the interior decoration. Oh, did I mention that Midge’s parents played by Tony Shalhoub and Marin Hinkle are two amusing individuals who will make you laugh by just watching their demeanor… Below, snippets of the interiors in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
