I am disappointed in the flash forwards.. I was hoping it was a fake out or a dream. I always thought they would end by just showing a taste of success so her friends and always skeptical family knew she was actually talented (like a TV appearance on the show she is now writing for). And to show her choice to do this was finally worth it. But the fawning "living legend" stuff was unrealistic and audience pandering. In the early 1960's and where she is now in this season with two kids in her 30's, that kind of sudden star rise just seems really unrealistic for the times, especially since she does not act like Lucille Ball or Carroll Burnett did. The age of comedians becoming huge just on their own comedy really did not start happening until the 1970's. They have blended in some fictional stuff like Shy Baldwin before and the Gordon Ford Show, this is basically rewriting the entire history of comedy. Might be an unpopular opinion, but I thought it was too much.
Hardly. Midge is very evidently based on Joan Rivers, and the beats of her rise to fame, including her rise to fame being partly thanks to her appearance on a popular talk show (The Tonight Show vs Gordon Ford) all track and at similar times. The fast forwards on the other hand allow the show to examine the parts of Midge's life where she was decidedly less successful, most importantly contextualizing her relationship with her kids, who numerous reviewers and fans have criticized the show for up to season 5 presenting as little more than set dressing. Susie is also given more room to be fleshed out as a character independent from Midge. IDK where you are getting the "living legend" stuff from: in the show's primary timeline, she is still not famous, her main gig being working the strip club. It is the flashforwards to mid and late 1980s, where she is the legend, and even in universe her stardom status is confirmed to have started post 1971.
@@bobross1829 It very clearly is not fan service. The flashforwards flesh out the story's characters with loss and drama, on the contrary shattering the illusion of the earlier seasons, where everyone was basically static and unchanging, the children having no agency, Midge being perpetually in arrested development, Joel selfish and focused on himself, the kids nonexistent with the grandparents serving as similarly static foils as they are in later stages of their lives. The flashforwards literally kill off Abe and Rose, send Joel to prison and make Midge and Susie fall out. How is that fan service?! The real fan service would have been to let the show wallow in that static timeline, where growth of the characters was difficult, giving viewers only regurgitations of previous seasons but now slightly more 60s wardrobes. The past seasons were critiqued by many from an intersectionist lens that the show only presented the upper-middle class white fantasy of a illusion by-gone America, a simpler time, with pretty clothes. I appreciate the flashforwards exactly for their sowing of the impacts cultural narratives and mores had on later and contemporary culture.
@@serebii666 lol no one cares what dumb wokesters say, they are obsolete. That is the entire premise of the show, that she was a rich spoiled jewish princess and all the humor derives from that. It fuels the humor from the entire family. Everything does not have to be about everyone and audiences all across america have pretty resoundingly rejected intersectionalism. there are a million shows and every group now has one. No one is unrepresented anymore
Excited for next season?
♥️ watching Marin...
It's not the Lenny Bruce story. It's Mrs Maisel's story of her career and independence . I look forward to her next adventure
♥️ watching Marin...
Her name is Mrs. Maisel, not Ms. Maisel!!
❤️ watching Rose Maisel
❤I can’t stand it if Midge ends up alone! She needs her family to keep her human. She needs love.
…as a good, well behaved housewife should.
I am disappointed in the flash forwards.. I was hoping it was a fake out or a dream. I always thought they would end by just showing a taste of success so her friends and always skeptical family knew she was actually talented (like a TV appearance on the show she is now writing for). And to show her choice to do this was finally worth it. But the fawning "living legend" stuff was unrealistic and audience pandering. In the early 1960's and where she is now in this season with two kids in her 30's, that kind of sudden star rise just seems really unrealistic for the times, especially since she does not act like Lucille Ball or Carroll Burnett did. The age of comedians becoming huge just on their own comedy really did not start happening until the 1970's. They have blended in some fictional stuff like Shy Baldwin before and the Gordon Ford Show, this is basically rewriting the entire history of comedy. Might be an unpopular opinion, but I thought it was too much.
Hardly. Midge is very evidently based on Joan Rivers, and the beats of her rise to fame, including her rise to fame being partly thanks to her appearance on a popular talk show (The Tonight Show vs Gordon Ford) all track and at similar times. The fast forwards on the other hand allow the show to examine the parts of Midge's life where she was decidedly less successful, most importantly contextualizing her relationship with her kids, who numerous reviewers and fans have criticized the show for up to season 5 presenting as little more than set dressing. Susie is also given more room to be fleshed out as a character independent from Midge. IDK where you are getting the "living legend" stuff from: in the show's primary timeline, she is still not famous, her main gig being working the strip club. It is the flashforwards to mid and late 1980s, where she is the legend, and even in universe her stardom status is confirmed to have started post 1971.
@@serebii666 I appreciate that take but it is fan service and I did not care for it. Thank you
@@bobross1829 It very clearly is not fan service. The flashforwards flesh out the story's characters with loss and drama, on the contrary shattering the illusion of the earlier seasons, where everyone was basically static and unchanging, the children having no agency, Midge being perpetually in arrested development, Joel selfish and focused on himself, the kids nonexistent with the grandparents serving as similarly static foils as they are in later stages of their lives. The flashforwards literally kill off Abe and Rose, send Joel to prison and make Midge and Susie fall out. How is that fan service?! The real fan service would have been to let the show wallow in that static timeline, where growth of the characters was difficult, giving viewers only regurgitations of previous seasons but now slightly more 60s wardrobes. The past seasons were critiqued by many from an intersectionist lens that the show only presented the upper-middle class white fantasy of a illusion by-gone America, a simpler time, with pretty clothes. I appreciate the flashforwards exactly for their sowing of the impacts cultural narratives and mores had on later and contemporary culture.
@@serebii666 lol no one cares what dumb wokesters say, they are obsolete. That is the entire premise of the show, that she was a rich spoiled jewish princess and all the humor derives from that. It fuels the humor from the entire family. Everything does not have to be about everyone and audiences all across america have pretty resoundingly rejected intersectionalism. there are a million shows and every group now has one. No one is unrepresented anymore
I wouldn't want a time jump, but perhaps a flash forward at the end that would include Lenny's death. 🤔
I don't like Mei so I wouldn't miss her.
We don't need to see Lenny's death, especially since Jackie passed just last season.
Mrs. Maisel not Miss
I think I just want to be surprised.
Almost every series finale the last showI watch is disappointing..like
Will and Grace first series finale was awesome.
Watched episode 5.1.
That was really disappointing.
new zealand??
No no no time jump.
Luke May...