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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with this assessment 
[quote=Anonymous]I found the last episode heart breaking.  Essentially she's in that incredibly large closet with the clothes and the dad comes in to say she can marry Benjamin -- and it's like in that moment that she realizes that as a woman you get one or the other.  You get the husband or the career but you don't get both.  And you realize that Sophie Lennon only got the career, the painter in the previous episode only got the career.

The song about being alone is about having to choose and it's heartbreaking in the 1950's that someone that talented had to choose and it's heartbreaking how many women still have to choose today.  When I joined the foreign service in the 1990's, all the guys showed up engaged with a fiancee and all the women had just been dumped by a guy who had no intention of giving up his career to go abroad.

Scary thing is that that I met a class of new foreign service officers recently and the distribution was pretty much the same.  Single women and guys with SAHMs.

I think that Midge realizes that either she breaks up with Ben or he breaks up with her because this clearly isn't what he signed up for.  He wanted a doctor's wife, not a lady with a career.[/quote]

versus this one. 
[quote=Anonymous]I like the show, was happy to binge season two but am disappointed.  It’s really starting to bug me that she is leaving her kids for six months and they don’t even factor into her equation.  I really wish the show creator didn’t give her kids yet.

And I love the doctor.  She dumped him without even giving him a chance to accept or reject her leaving for tour.  [/quote]

Spot on. The build up and progression this season was brilliant. The cringing at the wedding speech and the random artist episode, the reintroduction of Sophie, the friend’s baby—it all leads up to the finale.

She realizes that, without a second thought for anyone else (Benjamin, her kids, anyone else or her whole life in NY), she decides to prioritize her career. In a split second, she instinctively says yes to something that will catapult her into fame and fortune, but will cost her everyone. She will be alone and has accepted that price, the second it was offered to her. What I love about the final scene with Joel is that she acknowledges how quickly she made that choice, without any hesitation. 
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