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    The Insistent Cheeriness of <i>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</i>

    The Amazon show from the creator of <em>Gilmore Girls</em> is an exuberant story about a 1950s housewife who discovers an unlikely talent.
    by Sophie Gilbert Nov 29, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Amazon

    Expecting realism from an Amy Sherman-Palladino show is like expecting Elmo to break into an Ibsen monologue in the middle of —it’s never going to happen. Sherman-Palladino’s universes are bright, zany, sparkly places, as cozy as hot chocolate, and as insulated from darkness as a casino at Christmastime. Her characters are whip-smart, mile-a-minute talkers with unshakable confidence and improbable appetites. If Stars Hollow, the fictional Connecticut locale where her beloved drama was set, felt like a simulacrum of small-town America, the New York of is stranger still,

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