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- Feb 18, 2022
- Amazon Prime
- Feb 18, 2022
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
- Feb 18, 2022
- Amazon Prime
- Feb 18, 2022
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
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
65
47% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
53% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
0% Negative
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The fourth season has the potential to bring a greater sense of focus and purpose by homing in on the ways that characters are actively changing, rather than repeating old patterns.
This time around, Midge’s story might not always be as pleasant, but it’s much more powerful.
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 User Ratings
6.9
68% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
23% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
9% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
It dawdles getting started, but the next-to-last season of this groundbreaking comedy series about a female comic breaking the testosterone ceiling of standup in 1960 returns to peak form as an on-fire Rachel Brosnahan catches Mrs. Maisel in the exhilarating act of inventing herself.
It makes for absorbing viewing, and Brosnahan throws herself into it with admirable force, her stand-up patter getting better with every season – but it does at times make it hard to enjoy being in Midge’s company.
If you can tolerate Brosnahan’s mile-a-minute delivery, which doesn’t let up even when she’s arrested for soliciting, there are some great ensemble scenes.
Not your best stuff, at least based on the first few episodes. In fact, it just feels like you're hitting the same one-liners all over again.
It gives me no pleasure to share that the show is now fixated on its characters complaining problems of the characters’ own making. In one episode, Midge literally thinks her biggest problem is not getting free milk. Worse, the once guillotine-sharp dialogue that made the Sherman-Palladinos favorites amongst TV snobs has been replaced with nonsensical dialogue that constantly loops back on itself.
The performances are still strong, but Midge's closing set in episode 1 is more like a 2022 Netflix comedy special with all of the f-bombs lacing her routine. This seems anachronistic for stand-up comedy of 60 years ago. Even Lenny Bruce's legal struggles back in the day were as much about content/subject matter than it was four-letter words. Midge's stand-up predates Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy by quite a few years.
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SEASON 4
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