Anyone watching Mrs. Maisel?

[drednm]

Streaming thru season one. The period detail seems quite good though there are the usual errors in references to things not found in 1958. Lenny Bruce appears as a character and there are lots of references to comics like Bob Newhart, Buddy Hackett, Red Skelton, etc. Lots of 50s music (Peggy Lee, McGuire Sisters, Jo Stafford, etc.). Interesting take on the 1950s and the rise of a female stand-up comic.

[William D. Ferry]

Yes to both seasons. I really enjoyed it, in fact I binged on the second season over two days in December, which I normally don't do.

[s.w.a.c.]

I just got a Roku on the weekend, and immediately plugged in our Amazon Prime account so we could finally watch it. Loving it so far (despite the occasional anachronisms which usually set my teeth on edge), but trying not to binge so we don't suddenly run out of episodes. Rachel Brosnahan is wonderful in the lead and the guy playing Lenny Bruce is doing a pretty fine job, all things considered. Nice to see great roles for fave character actors Tony Shaloub and Kevin Pollack, who I prefer as an actor than as a comic. I liked Michael Zegen as Bugsy Siegel in Boardwalk Empire, he's great here as her sad sack wannabe comedian husband.

Also happy to see a Murphy bed turn up in an early episode when we see the apartment of her manager Susie (whose pull-down bed blocks the door of her tiny place). Was going to mention it in the Murphy bed thread, but since it's not a film, I refrained.

[boblipton]

I just got a Roku on the weekend, and immediately plugged in our Amazon Prime account so we could finally watch it. Loving it so far (despite the occasional anachronisms which usually set my teeth on edge), but trying not to binge so we don't suddenly run out of episodes. Rachel Brosnahan is wonderful in the lead and the guy playing Lenny Bruce is doing a pretty fine job, all things considered. Nice to see great roles for fave character actors Tony Shaloub and Kevin Pollack, who I prefer as an actor than as a comic. I liked Michael Zegen as Bugsy Siegel in Boardwalk Empire, he's great here as her sad sack wannabe comedian husband.

Also happy to see a Murphy bed turn up in an early episode when we see the apartment of her manager Susie (whose pull-down bed blocks the door of her tiny place). Was going to mention it in the Murphy bed thread, but since it's not a film, I refrained.

We’ve been charting them in tv shows too, so please let us know the episode.

Bob

[sethb]

We've also enjoyed Mrs. Maisel at our home. Seems like the writers either had personal experience working in clubs or spoke extensively with folks who did. I especially liked the Season 2 segment where an unscrupulous club manager tried to con Midge out of her fee. The series is a fine combination of comedy and drama, with a few soap suds thrown in here and there.
They generally did a great job on the sets, locales and props, although I think it stretches reality to think that anyone would still be using a circa 1930 Model A Ford for daily transportation in the 1950's. Perhaps it was meant as a joke, the same way that Laurel & Hardy were usually driving Model T's in the 1930's. Or perhaps it was a way of showing how out of touch Susie's mother was --- similar to the sequences in "Sunset Boulevard" with Gloria Swanson's touring car, which was at least 20 years out of date in 1950.
In any event, the series beats almost everything on broadcast TV these days --- and there's also no commercials!! Highly recommended. SETH

[s.w.a.c.]

I was driving a 20-year-old Saturn until it finally conked out on me for good in November, so never say never.

[Brooksie]

I've watched about half of the first season, and I run hot and cold on it, as I tend to on most of Amy Sherman-Palladino's stuff. The production design and costuming is stellar, but the clever-clever talkiness can get a bit wearing. The specific anachronisms don't annoy me so much as the fact that the whole comedy scene in New York at the time has been somewhat Disneyfied. It certainly doesn't interrogate the era as incisively as, say, Mad Men, but that's not its purpose. I guess it is a kind of wish-fulfilment fantasy and can be enjoyed as such.