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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait  an someone explain her breakup with Suzie  and when did they get back together? I watched it all but maybe I forgot. I think they broke up because of the money / gambling and. Joel fixed that - but when did midge and Suzie reconcile? [/quote]

They broke up because [b]Susie got mixed up with the mob[/b] and in order to clear midge of it, Joel quietly gave over control of his club businesses to Susie’s mob associates. Midge found out when Joel eventually went to prison and midge lost it at Susie for getting them in this deep. That was in the mid 1980s.

They made up after Susie’s roast in 1990. Midge extended an olive branch [/quote]

It was more than that. She was mixed up with the mob and gave them a cut of all of Midge’s earnings, which Susie failed to tell Midge. That’s why Joel wanted to clear Midge from being entangled and indebted in any way to the mob.

I liked the flashback to the Chinese restaurant and Lenny Bruce but[b] did not like Lenny’s downfall at all.[/b] I felt there were a lot of things that weren’t needed at all this season: the kibbutz scene, the daughter and the psychiatrist, the scenes at the preschool, every scene with the maid (her marriage and compulsion to continue working), the marital problems of Joel’s parents and then their stupid fur coat/shower reconnection scene, the stupid scenes with Susie and the woman in the office across the way (where the bucket  was stuck), the dad agonizing about having a typo corrected in his article, etc. just a lot of wasted time that could have been better spent developing another aspect of the show. [/quote]

Lenny Bruce was a real person.  His downfall was based on facts.[/quote]

Of course, I know that. But his downfall was drawn out with his bombing of his act, which he did in real life. But the series wasn’t about lenny’s life, so watching it go on and on added little to midge’s story. It had nothing to with midge by then. The scene made no sense to me - as it wasn’t a show about him and he’d not been a focus in her life for awhile. (Maybe if they had reconnected in a meaningful way after she’d found his drugs and we saw that connection and her continued draw to him over time…) but to throw Susie in there offering to help, it was too forced for me. It showed what happened to him…and felt forced to me and added nothing. (I would have rather seen Sophie Lennon screen time with her seeing Midge take off.)[/quote]

The actor playing Lenny was a fan favorite and they needed to wrap up his story in the finale. Midge cares for him, so it made sense she would reach out. I’m glad they included the scene at the Chinese restaurant.

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