I thought this was the weakest of the first three, but that's typical for first episodes of a new season -- lots of setup.
However ... there's a bizarre ending to one scene that confusingly transitions to the next.
When Susie goes to visit the Gordon Ford show, she starts wandering around and is observing things and then the scene just sort of abruptly ends.
Cut to ... the TV in the Maisel home on Thanksgiving, but it was confusing like maybe it was supposed to be a match cut or a thematic match cut and the setup was missing.
I don't know, but regardless the point of the Susie wandering scene was definitely not nailed even if there wasn't something missing. It needed the viewer to have something to take away.
In hindsight, we understand that she saw the men go into the elevator and the women are in the hallway, which is a setup for when Susie suggests to Gordon that he put Midge on his staff. However, the scene with Susie in the hallway is way too subtle for most viewers to take this away from it, or anything. Either there was something more definitive planned and it was mistakenly cut, or it was way too subtle to begin with.
However ... there's a bizarre ending to one scene that confusingly transitions to the next.
When Susie goes to visit the Gordon Ford show, she starts wandering around and is observing things and then the scene just sort of abruptly ends.
Cut to ... the TV in the Maisel home on Thanksgiving, but it was confusing like maybe it was supposed to be a match cut or a thematic match cut and the setup was missing.
I don't know, but regardless the point of the Susie wandering scene was definitely not nailed even if there wasn't something missing. It needed the viewer to have something to take away.
In hindsight, we understand that she saw the men go into the elevator and the women are in the hallway, which is a setup for when Susie suggests to Gordon that he put Midge on his staff. However, the scene with Susie in the hallway is way too subtle for most viewers to take this away from it, or anything. Either there was something more definitive planned and it was mistakenly cut, or it was way too subtle to begin with.