'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Season 2: Still Marvelous, Even Smarter
It's been over a year since Amazon dropped the first season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, its comedy series about a 1950s well-to-do Upper West Side housewife-turned-standup-comic navigating the beginning of a showbiz career.
Produced, (mostly) directed and (largely) written by Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino (the team behind Gilmore Girls and Bunheads), that first season burst fully formed from the forehead of Zeus (read: the top hat of Sherman-Palladino). It was breezy, funny, exquisitely made (the locations! the sets! the costumes!) and fueled by its fast-talking central character's supreme (and, we swiftly learned, entirely justified) confidence in herself.
It was something, that self-assuredness: Tireless, for one thing. Admirable, surely. Charming, often. But from a dramatic perspective, dicey.
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