Season 2 of “Marvelous Mrs. Maizel” starts tomorrow!!

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot stand Joel! He is such a nasty loser jerk. But he is played really well, the actor is completely believable.

Awww I like Joel. I think he screwed up and now he is trying to do better. He still loves Midge but the times don't allow him to feel emasculated by her jokes about him.

It’s funny; I think of Joel as a masculine George Costanza.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how the Catskills was like family summer camp, but high-end, with dinner and dancing every night. Corny fun. I wish we still had something like it these days.

Cruises are like that but less corny. DH and I dance a lot and I do think it's more of a lost art now, back then everyone knew how.

I wonder a lot about the childcare. Everyone just expects Zelda to do it. How does that poor woman cook, clean and take care of these kids all day? She's there until late at night too.

I was kind of shocked at her performance at the wedding. She acts like she forgot there was a Priest present, but she grew up around Rabbis and you wouldn't say those things in front of them either.

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The childcare issue *really* bothers me. I get that this is just a silly, fluffy show and we're not to think too deeply about it or take it seriously. But honestly, the kids are less than props even. No one ever interacts with them (though we occasionally will see Midge patting one on the head or reading to one briefly). I agree with a PP who said this show would be more enjoyable (and believable) if she hadn't had kids yet. As a mom, all I can think about is "Where are the kids? Who's watching the kids??" Not only Midge, but her parents seem completely disinterested in them.

This should be a different thread, but that's probably the most realistic part of the show. In my family (UMC with a SAHM) in the 50s, kids were never read to. They didn't eat dinner with the parents. The moms went off and played cards/social functions with their friends and the kids just played outside all day. Very young kids like Esther tagged along with the housekeeper during the day, but didn't get too much attention either. Parents went out at night without anyone watching the sleeping kids.

I agree with this. I was annoyed by the lack of presence she had in her kids lives, but in many other shows and movies parents weren't attentive either. One that comes to mind is The Help. The kids spent a lot of time with their caretaker and not the moms.

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s/o kids. It's one thing to have Midge not pay any attention to them in their every day lives, but it's completely insane that Esther doesn't seem to have aged AT ALL between seasons 1 and 2. She is a baby, so she would have the most physical growth of any character, including Ethan. It's like they know if they let her turn 1 and start walking, that they'll have to acknowledge that she needs a mother!

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Anonymous wrote:I loved that they forgot about the baby when moving into the Steiner resort. The kids are props. It's funny.

+1. And loved when they measured the baby’s forehead in the first season. The show is a comedy. People who are obsessing over who is watching the kids and how much time Midge spends with them need to find a new show.

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I suspect that the writers may regret having given the characters kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved that they forgot about the baby when moving into the Steiner resort. The kids are props. It's funny.

+1. And loved when they measured the baby’s forehead in the first season. The show is a comedy. People who are obsessing over who is watching the kids and how much time Midge spends with them need to find a new show.

thank you! I completely understood why the kids were basically background props. This is a show about a woman trying to make it in a male-dominated, very difficult career. Instead of finding the significance and meaning in THAT story line, people are focusing on why she doesn't spend more time with her kids? that's not at all what the show's about.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect that the writers may regret having given the characters kids.

I suspect everyone having issues with this don’t get the humor. It’s a comedy. It’s not that deep.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved that they forgot about the baby when moving into the Steiner resort. The kids are props. It's funny.

+1. And loved when they measured the baby’s forehead in the first season. The show is a comedy. People who are obsessing over who is watching the kids and how much time Midge spends with them need to find a new show.

thank you! I completely understood why the kids were basically background props. This is a show about a woman trying to make it in a male-dominated, very difficult career. Instead of finding the significance and meaning in THAT story line, people are focusing on why she doesn't spend more time with her kids? that's not at all what the show's about.

+1 Totally agree. I’m so confused by the ppl seeing this as such an issue. It’s a comedy and if that wasn’t clear, the scene at the Catskills where they said to bring the baby too, made it even more clear.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved that they forgot about the baby when moving into the Steiner resort. The kids are props. It's funny.

+1. And loved when they measured the baby’s forehead in the first season. The show is a comedy. People who are obsessing over who is watching the kids and how much time Midge spends with them need to find a new show.

thank you! I completely understood why the kids were basically background props. This is a show about a woman trying to make it in a male-dominated, very difficult career. Instead of finding the significance and meaning in THAT story line, people are focusing on why she doesn't spend more time with her kids? that's not at all what the show's about.

Then they shouldn't have "saddled" her with kids. It would be a lot funnier without them.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved that they forgot about the baby when moving into the Steiner resort. The kids are props. It's funny.

+1. And loved when they measured the baby’s forehead in the first season. The show is a comedy. People who are obsessing over who is watching the kids and how much time Midge spends with them need to find a new show.

thank you! I completely understood why the kids were basically background props. This is a show about a woman trying to make it in a male-dominated, very difficult career. Instead of finding the significance and meaning in THAT story line, people are focusing on why she doesn't spend more time with her kids? that's not at all what the show's about.

Then they shouldn't have "saddled" her with kids. It would be a lot funnier without them.

Completely disagree. It’s funnier with them being used as props.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved that they forgot about the baby when moving into the Steiner resort. The kids are props. It's funny.

+1. And loved when they measured the baby’s forehead in the first season. The show is a comedy. People who are obsessing over who is watching the kids and how much time Midge spends with them need to find a new show.

thank you! I completely understood why the kids were basically background props. This is a show about a woman trying to make it in a male-dominated, very difficult career. Instead of finding the significance and meaning in THAT story line, people are focusing on why she doesn't spend more time with her kids? that's not at all what the show's about.

Then they shouldn't have "saddled" her with kids. It would be a lot funnier without them.

Completely disagree. It’s funnier with them being used as props.

I agree! I also think it wouldn’t make sense if she didn’t have kids. It seems as if the goal is to get married and start a family. It’s obvious she only did it because it’s what’s expected of her. I thought it was so interesting that her moms immediate response to her comedy career was about how it would impact her getting married again.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved that they forgot about the baby when moving into the Steiner resort. The kids are props. It's funny.

+1. And loved when they measured the baby’s forehead in the first season. The show is a comedy. People who are obsessing over who is watching the kids and how much time Midge spends with them need to find a new show.

thank you! I completely understood why the kids were basically background props. This is a show about a woman trying to make it in a male-dominated, very difficult career. Instead of finding the significance and meaning in THAT story line, people are focusing on why she doesn't spend more time with her kids? that's not at all what the show's about.

Then they shouldn't have "saddled" her with kids. It would be a lot funnier without them.

They had to "saddle" her with kids otherwise she and Joel would just go their separate ways with nothing to tie them together.

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I love this show. I laugh the whole time. I can't believe how clueless and wealthy Midge is, like when she was waiting for her bags to be brought up at the motel. The show is realistic enough that it is relatable, but unrealistic and crazy too.

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Anonymous wrote:I love this show. I laugh the whole time. I can't believe how clueless and wealthy Midge is, like when she was waiting for her bags to be brought up at the motel. The show is realistic enough that it is relatable, but unrealistic and crazy too.

They weren't actually "wealthy". Their lives were completely subsidized by Columbia University, since Abe is a tenured professor there. So that gorgeous apartment is owned by Columbia, so that basically frees up their money so they can spend it on things that make them seem wealthy, if that makes sense.

Not sure if you've watched the second season yet - SPOILER below.....



Abe loses his research project at Bell Labs (long story), and he decides to leave his tenured position at Columbia, so they're forced to move out of that apartment.

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Anonymous wrote:I love this show. I laugh the whole time. I can't believe how clueless and wealthy Midge is, like when she was waiting for her bags to be brought up at the motel. The show is realistic enough that it is relatable, but unrealistic and crazy too.

They weren't actually "wealthy". Their lives were completely subsidized by Columbia University, since Abe is a tenured professor there. So that gorgeous apartment is owned by Columbia, so that basically frees up their money so they can spend it on things that make them seem wealthy, if that makes sense.

Not sure if you've watched the second season yet - SPOILER below.....



Abe loses his research project at Bell Labs (long story), and he decides to leave his tenured position at Columbia, so they're forced to move out of that apartment.

I think this thread touched on it briefly, but what type of attorney did Abe see at the end of the season? Was it a divorce attorney? Or is he going to sue Bell Labs?