The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 3

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I have noticed that a lot of people seem more frustrated with the character and the show in season 3, but I still found it very entertaining to watch with this latest season. I absolutely loved the set design and the cinematography, Shy’s songs were so catchy that I certainly had zero complaints about the time spend on them. I can see now why Amy

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[tabaqui]

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Hi hi hi! Nice to see you back! :D

I adore TMMM and really have enjoyed all three seasons equally. I think Suzie telling Joel to deal with the money was smart, because i thought they made it pretty clear that she has issues with gambling and felt she couldn't trust herself to have that much money 'on hand', as it were, in the future. I loved her taking Sophie down, that was delightful.

I was very sad about the ending. I truly think that Midge was pretty clueless re: coded language and whatnot. I don't think she really *knew*, and was probably just repeating things she'd heard and/or just making jokes she thought were harmless. I don't think she had the slightest idea that it would be that big, obvious of a 'thing'. I really was pissed they waited until they were on the damn TARMAC to tell them. Cowardly.

Suzie being terrified, and then actually just hanging out in the pool was *awesome*!

I like Joel. I think he has his issues, as we all do, but i think he recognizes them and is trying to work through them. He's not perfect, but that's okay. I liked Mai a lot. I know that the interracial stuff is a bit off, but i like that they're not hitting it hard. Most of the show is from Midge's pov, and i don't think she's terribly aware of it.

I thought her parents were delightful, and homg, I so sympathized with them. I could never live in that house, either. *flails*

I look forward to more seasons, I hope!

*waves* :D

[frelling_tralk]

Thank you! :waves back:

It did make sense for Suzie to decide not to deal with the money herself, it just struck such a weird note for me for her to go to Midge’s ex husband behind her back to ask him to take care of her money. I suppose that part of my issue there is that I don’t like Joel and Joel/Midge as much as it feels like the writing wants you too, and it felt kind of forced to me to have Suzie declare that he was the best person for the job because he still loves Midge. And plus it just felt like a weird choice to secretly go to Joel when Midge was trying to establish an independent new life for herself

Midge and Suzie’s friendship is one of my favourite parts of the show otherwise though, it was just that particular moment that felt jarring to me

And I could really see both sides when it came to the ending, I think that Midge did saw it harmless banter that the audience weren’t picking up on and so no harm done, but to Shy he would have just heard her making him the butt of the joke and riffing on him for her entire opening act. It did seem like Midge was possibly mislead when it came to Reggie telling her that everyone in that audience knew all about Shy and it was fine to be open with them, but even so surely she should have been more aware that Shy’s sexuality was completely off limits and that wasn’t what he meant? Reggie wasn’t even aware that Midge herself knew! Clearly everyone on tour with him had no idea except for Reggie, and Shy had told her that it was a huge secret that he was trusting her with. You don’t then go on stage and joke around and wink towards that

I did think that it was a low move to wait until they were at the airport with two paid for taxis though, but I assumed that was Shy lashing out and deliberately wanting to punish Midge after feeling that she had betrayed him and his trust in her? It would seem to be a risky move though as Midge could very easily choose to out him afterwards as payback, although I guess he knew her well enough to trust that she wouldn’t be that vindictive

[tabaqui]

Yeah, i just dunno if Midge was *that aware* of it all. I mean - she was shocked he was gay to begin with, had *no* idea, and i think the 'secret lingo' of gay in the sixties probably eluded, for the most part. Who knows!

I have almost never literally laughed out loud at a tv show, and I have at this one every season. I dunno if there's to be another season, but i hope so.

Tangentially - i LOVE LOVE LOVE the colors and style of the whole thing, *so* gorgeous.

[frelling_tralk]

I thought that the Judy Garland joke and the ‘he has a man for everything 😉’ made it seem like Midge believed that the hometown audience were aware of Shy’s sexuality, and it was more of an unspoken thing that they could snigger and wink wink nudge nudge about. She never came out and said it, but some stuff was so strongly implied that it did come across to me like she misunderstood what Reggie meant about this audience knowing all about Shy, and so thought it was the kind of thing that it was okay to joke about as an inside joke between her and the audience. Incredibly obtuse really though when you look at Shy’s coming out scene with Midge, and how he was clearly trusting her with something very private and painful to him

Totally agreed on the look of the show and how stunning it is!