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- Amazon Prime
- Dec 5, 2018
- Amazon Prime
- Dec 5, 2018
Summary The Amy Sherman-Palladino comedy set in 1958, focuses on New York housewife Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) who after her struggling comedian husband leaves her, decides to try her hand at stand-up comedy.
Created By: Amy Sherman-Palladino
- Amazon Prime
- Dec 5, 2018
- Amazon Prime
- Dec 5, 2018
Summary The Amy Sherman-Palladino comedy set in 1958, focuses on New York housewife Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) who after her struggling comedian husband leaves her, decides to try her hand at stand-up comedy.
Created By: Amy Sherman-Palladino
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
85
96% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
4% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Perfectly delightful second season. [10 - 23 Dec 2018, p.8]
It is a truly delightful, exceptionally spirited romp that explores Midge’s world of appearing classically conventional but actually being extraordinary--often by sheer force of will. She’s not for everyone, but to like Midge is to love her. The same is true of the show.
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Based on 113 User Ratings
8.0
82% Positive
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93 Ratings
8% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 113 User Ratings
8.0
82% Positive
93 Ratings
93 Ratings
8% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
10% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
Sparkling. Romantic. Awe-inspiring. Nostalgic. And occasionally, exhausting and a little saddening. That’s the holidays for you. That’s also The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, returning for its second season in fine form.
It’s a warm but smart confection in a TV universe overpopulated with series vying to be the darkest, most brooding show possible.
As was the case in season one, the biggest assets in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel arsenal are Mrs. Maisel herself and Susie. Every time the show pivots away from them to focus on Abe and Rose or Joel, who’s now living with his overbearing parents, it loses some of its fizz. Fortunately, those detours never last for too long.
Whenever Midge gets up on the standup comedy stage, her scenes are electrifying. ... It’s also a show that can never quite see past its own blinders on anything that doesn’t relate to a 1950s battle of the sexes. It knows issues around race and class exist. It even knows that issues around religion exist. But it never knows what to do with them, because it needs them to remain off camera, so that it might construct a more perfect, candy-coated world.
This time around, the story seems motivated less by the characters’ forward propulsion than by hastily sketching how to get from one fabulous set piece to the next.
I wonder how long can they hold this up. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel packs a staggering amount of energy into every single episode, so much so that binging through it can be exhausting (but in a good way), and I can’t help but speculate as to how long they can keep this up for before the energy begins to wane, but before that day comes, I’m going to enjoy the ride.
Season 2 is an even bigger blast than season one. If you weren’t already sold by season one, the second season probably won’t make a convert out of you, but for those of us who fell in love from the start, it’s wonderful to see what a marginal improvement this is.
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Season two of MMM is plagued with problems.
First and foremost is that the season is unfocused. It's almost like a second season was so unexpected that every random idea had to be turned into an episode.
Then there is the problem that most episodes have scenes that feel like an end-of-episode wrap-up, but in the middle. Sometimes more than once. The episode then staggers on like a zombie for awhile and just when something remotely interesting is about to happen with the plot, it does end.
I know that just sounds like 'cliff-hanger', but it comes across as poorly constructed scripts. It actually does make some sense because the over-arching story is so thin it has to be spread out.
Speaking of the walking dead. Zachary Levi joins the cast, acting the most stiff I've ever seen him. You'd think he walked in from another series or that no one gave him any acting direction. That is unless the director just told him to stand there in his scenes while other people talked at him. Two dimensional barely describes his role which includes a good deal of screen time for such a poorly developed character.
The drama in the dramedy is stretched thin and makes you want them to just get on with it. There are lots of pointless elements and plot-lines that should have been cut.
The comedy is the highlight of the season. The humor maintains a high level, especially Midge's stand-up acts. Unfortunately, the lighter moments are often too far apart making many episodes feel like a slog.
AND YET, some of the jokes occur at the expense of pulling you out of the show. Slang, references and banter is occasionally salted with anachronisms. Ideas that people of the period wouldn't know are used as fodder for jokes.
Finally, there is the last episode. So so terrible. Lots of new 'I've got something to tell you' secrets suddenly added for every single character just before ending and leaving everything unresolved. Again, you could call it a cliffhanger, but there is more unresolved in the last episode than actually occurs in the rest of the season.
Enjoyable, but a disappointing sophomore season.
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