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.

Anonymous wrote:^^ that she would stand on a chair during her friend’s wedding reception and start her stand up...pathologically self-absorbed! I don’t know if the show’s writers intend for her to be insufferable or loveable. She’s definitely the former.

I think the difference between hating her and enjoying her is whether or not you are able to look at things from a historical perspective, or only able to view things from the filter of 2018.

^^ that she would stand on a chair during her friend’s wedding reception and start her stand up...pathologically self-absorbed! I don’t know if the show’s writers intend for her to be insufferable or loveable. She’s definitely the former.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t find her stand up funny! The “audience” is laughing, but I’m not.

But I watch it. I find it entertaining

Me either. Maybe back then, in another context and era, it would’ve been? But I’ve never laughed at her stand up. Now the Dad, (Tony Shalhoub), he I laugh at. And even Joel makes me laugh.

It’s interesting because I love the show and think the entire ensemble is amazing, without exception - but i just loathe her character!!

I don’t find her stand up funny! The “audience” is laughing, but I’m not.

But I watch it. I find it entertaining

For me, I like the show for its portrayal of a bygone era when parents didn't helicopter and children ate separately at their own tables! I love that Midge said yes immediately to the dude's six-month tour proposal because in real life, a woman would be saying "Oh, hold on, I need to think about this, can't go because of kids or make childcare arrangements etc." Her kids just hang around and no one is spending $2000 a month on daycare- what a life! Although I find it hard to reconcile how an unmarried handsome doctor would be so not apprehensive about marrying a mother of two. I thought back then, divorce was stigmatized no? I get that Midge is gorgeous and hot but the show is so not realistic.

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Anonymous wrote:The scene where she takes over the mic in the Paris club was over the top. I periodically am irritated with her “schtick” but still love watching.

I thought her taking over the wedding was worse. I could barely watch that scene.

I was so disappointed that they just had her apologize and then shrug off what happened at the wedding. Midge’s flaw is that she is SO self-focused and she only sees the people around her as something to use for her own goals. They touched on this very briefly this season (apologizing to Mary, bailing on Imogen, and what happens in the finale). I really hope they put her through some karmic retribution next season instead of having people just shrug and act like she’s SO amazing that they don’t mind how selfish she is. The character needs to grow up if she’s going to sustain another season.

In the 1950s were people really using the f-word that much?

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Anonymous wrote:I find Midge kind of annoying and over the top. But the sets and clothes keep me watching. I just watched the first episode last night, and the whole running away to Paris story line is also far-fetched. But, again, it's fun to just look at it.

Yeah have only watched the first episode and it was painful. Not at all in her mom's season 1 character which I guess is the point but it feels to fast of a departure. Ugh and her doing her bit at the drag club while being translated- so awkward and forced- "oh I'm just on stage now, I guess I should make this about me." Idk. Not sure I'll make it through the whole second season... the schitck is getting tiresome. But maybe during the slow holiday tv season... ha

Wow, I completely agree with everything you said. Was just about to write exactly that. I've only watched the first episode and was cringing throughout. The loud, rat-a-tat-tat conversation style is SO grating. The drag club with French translation was incredibly tiresome. You really see how self-centered she is - grabs a mic and tells her life story to a bunch of strangers.

I'm seeing so many similarities between this show and Gilmore Girls. I loved GG, with the exception of the corny, yelling, back and forth, lightspeed conversations that attempted some kind of old school humor. It just doesn't work, and this show is no exception. It's like Sherman-Palladino et al are desperately trying to recreate the madcap humor of the 50s, without success. It's all one big shtick and is beyond old already.

That said, the clothes are to die for. That's really the only reason I'm going to continue watching.

I, too, love the sets, clothes, etc.

It feels like a stage production, and if you think of it like that, its not far-fetched or trying too hard or a schtick. Every scene looks carefully choreographed, with blocking for the actors. That opening scene of the telephone operators was like a scene in a musical. On stage, everything must be a little exaggerated to compensate for the distance between the actors and the audience. TV creates an intimacy with the audience that compels the audience’s attention. Stage shows don’t have that, so they rely on quick dialogue, choreographed movement, and perfect, gorgeous sets. I think Mrs. Maisel is trying to evoke stage production rather than contemporary television as a way of reinforcing the feel of the era in which it takes place, just as every detail of fashion and set reflect an idealized, iconic image of that era.

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Anonymous wrote:The scene where she takes over the mic in the Paris club was over the top. I periodically am irritated with her “schtick” but still love watching.

I thought her taking over the wedding was worse. I could barely watch that scene.

Yeah, that was horrible.

Anonymous wrote:The scene where she takes over the mic in the Paris club was over the top. I periodically am irritated with her “schtick” but still love watching.

I thought her taking over the wedding was worse. I could barely watch that scene.

Anonymous wrote:Mirium's father Abe is SPOT ON this season. He's hilarious!!

Tony shalhoub is perfect in everything he does.

I died when the woman translating in the drag club gave midge the business card of a psychiatrist that “really helped my friend Sylvia Plath.”

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really enjoying it thus far! Love the cast and all the new locations. Such a stunningly visual show!

I watch for the costumes, hair and sets.

I wish we all still dressed like that.

Most people did not dress like that.