The first three episodes of the final season of the marvelous Marvelous Mrs. Maisel foreshadow what may not be the happiest of endings for Midge. It wastes no time in establishing that twenty years later, she's achieved comedy superstar status, has rocky relationships with her now adult (and often neglected, resentful) children and has gone though several failed marriages and tabloid relationships; she's even on the outs with manager Susie who helped get her there. In the brief celebrity interview with the future Midge, there's a hardness to her that we've never seen before. Yet back in the main storyline's 1961 era, she's still willing to impulsively speak her mind as a woman in a man's world, regardless of the potential risk to her career. About the only thing missing from her initiation to a talk show writing staff is that no one asked her to get coffee.
The other main characters - Joel, Abe and Rose Weismann, and the Maisel's are each going through some form of life-altering angst. All of them, except perhaps Joel, too wrapped up in their own crises, real or imagined, to understand, much less fully accept, Midge's drive to break free from the Jewish housewife mold.
I'm looking forward to the final set of episodes (I wish Amazon was releasing them all at once in a massive binge), but if anyone was hoping for a "and they lived happily ever after" finale to Midge Maisel's arc, I fear that you're not going to get it.
The other main characters - Joel, Abe and Rose Weismann, and the Maisel's are each going through some form of life-altering angst. All of them, except perhaps Joel, too wrapped up in their own crises, real or imagined, to understand, much less fully accept, Midge's drive to break free from the Jewish housewife mold.
I'm looking forward to the final set of episodes (I wish Amazon was releasing them all at once in a massive binge), but if anyone was hoping for a "and they lived happily ever after" finale to Midge Maisel's arc, I fear that you're not going to get it.