New season of Mrs. Maisel

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Anonymous wrote:I’m so surprised by the negative reviews! I still enjoy the show except for the strip club scene. I don’t care for the Joel/Mei storyline, but that may be because I want Midge and Joel to get back together.

When you read specific critiques, you don’t agree with them? Not with any of the points?

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Y’all are crazy! The strip club performances were so great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y’all are crazy! The strip club performances were so great.

What was great about them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y’all are crazy! The strip club performances were so great.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Y’all are crazy! The strip club performances were so great.

What was great about them?

To be clear I’m referring to the strippers and their performances. What was great? The inventiveness of their props, variety of body sizes, the physicality of their routines. And who doesn’t love pasties?!

My favorite was the woman in the bathtub.

The big stripper performance in the finale with the different “apartments” was cool. It was like Broadway level strip show.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What did people think of the scene where rose was hypnotized?

The mobsters?

Each of the entire performances of the girls at the strip club? (Did we need to spend minutes watching the whole song?)

Why would midge talk about her encounter with the guy from the park at the jfk thing when she had already messed up with her shy Baldwin set (talking about what she shouldn’t have), after she’d been instructed to keep it clean at the jfk thing? These things aren’t realistic.

Why the whole firing of the secretary scene when she wasn’t fired? Why the African American comedian when the story was built and then left hanging?

What was really unbelievable was a luncheon entertainer actually verbalizing that she had sex with a man in her set schpiel. It would absolutely never have been verbalized anywhere! In fact, maybe never even in chatting with a friend. This was not acceptable in culture. People now don't realize this. Lenny Bruce was arrested for saying something far less in a set. But the free discussion of sex wasn't ever happening.

The words, the F-us, the cursing, and a lot of the phrasing and comments were definitely not happening on stage , but not even in social company. F bombs started in the mid 80s.
The writers blew it big time. The characters like Suzy and Abe were reduced to cartoon characters. This could have been wonderful and it was ruined.

Hooray for set, costuming, casting, partial research, but the writers blew it in the last 2 seasons.

Hear, hear!

My favorite episode is still the Catskills camp from season 2. That was the show at its apex.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m so surprised by the negative reviews! I still enjoy the show except for the strip club scene. I don’t care for the Joel/Mei storyline, but that may be because I want Midge and Joel to get back together.

+1

[Anonymous]

They featured Suzie so much in this season that I was starting to think that she was cheaper by the hour.

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The strippers were really the only good part about this season. And the costumes. Otherwise, I could do without. Even Lenny Bruce wasn’t hot. The scene with them in empty Carnegie Hall was just awkward and a little silly.

Also, Susie is not an idiot. It’s lazy writing to pretend like she is not aware of the deal on her office/apartment. She is sometimes a fish out of water, but she is not stupid. The character deserved better.

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I felt bad that the actress’s husband was on because I loved The Magicians. I want better for him than small parts on his wife’s show. And he wasn’t good.

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Anonymous wrote:I felt bad that the actress’s husband was on because I loved The Magicians. I want better for him than small parts on his wife’s show. And he wasn’t good.

Which character are you talking about? I loved The Magicians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Y’all are crazy! The strip club performances were so great.

What was great about them?

To be clear I’m referring to the strippers and their performances. What was great? The inventiveness of their props, variety of body sizes, the physicality of their routines. And who doesn’t love pasties?!

My favorite was the woman in the bathtub.

The big stripper performance in the finale with the different “apartments” was cool. It was like Broadway level strip show.

Totally agree with all this about the strippers!

[Anonymous]

TBH, I never got why people liked this show so much. It just doesn't hold my attention.

[Anonymous]

I rewatched the whole season and love it on the second pass.

[Anonymous]

I liked it. I also watched it all together vs every Friday