The fantastic Mrs. Maisel is back (and now she is looking for a job)

Midge Maisel took more than two years to wait. The last time we saw her for us was the end of a pre-pandemic 2019, for her that of the 1950s. But now that she’s back The wonderful Mrs. Maisel she just doesn’t want to shut up. Not that in the past, in fact, she has ever been happy to keep quiet.

Taking up the threads of the plot of America’s most famous cabaret artist of the 1950s therefore seems to us to be a necessary premise: We left Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) on the airport runway, loaded with luggage. There, the wealthy Jewish ex-wife ready (rightly so) for anything to take the stage with a stand-up comedy of her own, had just been fired from the pop singer’s tour. Shy Baldwin because of a joke told to the Apollo about his sexual orientation. Midge thus stares at Shy’s plane leaving for Europe, while she remains on the ground.

And now it starts again on February 18th. Two new episodes to be released every Friday for four weeks on Amazon Prime Video: it is the highly anticipated fourth season of the award-winning series (three Golden Globes and 16 Emmys), and created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, already lying about A mother as a friend, that with the previous episodes made everyone go crazy for the script, the costumes and the writing of the characters. In addition to the unprecedented (explosive) mix of comedy, musical and drama of the 50s.

But how is the fourth season? At least for the first two episodes, the only ones available in preview, it feels like a bit of going back. But, beware, it is only appearance. For Mrs. Maisel it is no longer enough to perform in front of the soldiers of a barracks. Now that she has hit rock bottom (professionally), she can only start from the only possible place for her: from the stage of the small club where she performed. There, no one can fire her or take offense. “I want to be myself every time I go out on that stage!”yells at his Agent Susie (Alex Borstein), who continues to stand by her side with complicity and great affection. Even when Midge sits next to her in a cab and starts throwing most of her luggage and her beloved clothes out of her window. Clothes that, with the taxi stopped, Midge continues to tear off at the side of the road. It is from the anger of another failure.

Source: Vanity Fair

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