Then, with Midge being Midge, she starts to do a bit and gives jokey radio announcements.
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It begins with a wedding — Midge and Joel's — at which, naturally, Midge insists on giving her own toast.
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Midge and Benjamin both hate the show, so Midge takes her new love interest to a nearby comedy club.
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Though Midge is still technically married to Joel, Benjamin approaches Abe to ask if he can marry Midge. Sure!
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While this is technically a love scene between Midge and Joel, it's also a scene about Midge embracing her own dreams.
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That said, Midge appears to be dating other people: A flash in the trailer shows Midge on a bad date involving boats.
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Midge is terrified that Sophie will sabotage her, which she does, but in a surprising turn of events, this actually leads to Midge succeeding more.
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Later, Ben tells Midge she is "spectacular," lest we forget Midge is the most marvelous woman in all of New York City, if not the world.
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Maisel season 2 begins planting the seeds of a Midge-Benjamin breakup long before it dawns on Midge that she cannot marry her handsome Jewish doctor beau.
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As Midge angrily stares at Mia and Amber, it's easy to see a season 2 where the former rivals must team up against Midge, a brand new evil.
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Joel begs Midge not to stop things and they move to her bedroom, where Midge reveals a major secret… she used to undo every other hook on her bra before sex.
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While Benjamin spends five minutes explaining to Midge how averse Declan is to letting people see his work, let alone sell it, the moody painter immediately invites Midge to his studio.
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This leads to a whole lot of awkward interactions between Midge and Joel (Michael Zegen), who are trying to be civil — and Midge is trying to reconcile — but it's just no use.
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Also, my grandmother and Midge shared a lot of traits.
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Again, Midge is sprung from jail by a comedy friend.
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Like Midge, Joel is now sleeping in his childhood bedroom.
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Susie claims she was just finishing a fight Midge started.
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In a single moment, Midge knows she can't marry Ben.
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Now, Levi will play a contender for Midge Maisel's heart.
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Unfortunately, Midge takes everything too far at the actual soiree.
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It hosts multiple yearly beauty pageants, which Midge always wins.
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All Midge can do in response is quietly nod yes.
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Why upset Rose if Midge could give up comedy tomorrow?
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It worked for her; so it must work for Midge.
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First, it gives Midge kids, a baby and a toddler.
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"There had to be a perkiness to Midge," DeCarlo says.
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This is our confirmation Midge is trapped inside of Amber.
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Midge hops on stage when Joel's club jukebox goes out.
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Did Midge, and the show, just completely forget about Benjamin?
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Things always seem to turn up roses for Midge, huh?
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Midge decides the answer is no and gets a cab.
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But Moose is already planning to go with Midge (Emilija Baranac).
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Like Midge, Rivers had a career-changing encounter with Lenny Bruce.
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I'm getting together with Midge and it's going to be awesome.
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Finally, the trailer offers some nuggets about the Joel-Midge front.
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This explains why Susie, whom Midge scheduled a 9:30 a.m.
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And, so, Midge bombs for the second time in a row.
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Speaking of one terrible man, Midge and Joel have finally reconciled.
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That way, Midge won't look so suspicious massacring the food herself.
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The real love story here is between Midge and her career.
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Midge was happily living her life solo before she realized it.
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Later, Abe grills Midge about whether Benjamin has any cutesy nicknames.
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Maisel will position Midge at the center of a love triangle.
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Joel tried to win back Midge, and she turned him down.
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Midge quickly finds out her joke wasn't a joke at all.
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"She Made A Hat" opens on Midge staring at a painting.
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With the performance done, Midge and Susie retire to their motel.
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Even the name of the phantom midge makes it seem spooky.
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Midge Maisel puts down the Pyrex and picks up a mic.
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The rise of Amber trapped Midge in the new, blonder body.
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And, that key is a dead girl named Midge (Indianna Ryan).
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Trilobites The Antarctic midge spends more than half its life frozen.
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It's a move that helps introduce Midge to a wider audience.
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Like Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) from Amy Sherman-Palladino's The Marvelous Mrs.
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There's a pause, and Midge dodges the root of his question.
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Midge and Joel are still married at the end of Season 1.
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More significantly, Bruce represents the qualities Midge aspires to in her comedy.
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Stunned and outraged, Midge heads to that same stage — and kills it.
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To do that, you can't really have a [Midge-Benjamin] breakup scene.
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One such is the marine splash midge, a fly originally from Australia.
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From the literal first second of the dramedy, we know Midge Maisel.
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I told you Midge doesn't need a security (wet) blanket like Joel.
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With such terrible advice, Midge should have immediately known something was wrong.
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All of this talk of loneliness drives Midge to Joel's office-apartment.
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Devastated, Joel finally hands over his wedding ring, and Midge walks away.
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Finally, Midge may have learned every occasion doesn't require a full performance.
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Midge isn't interested — she just just wants Rose off of her back.
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Then we switch back to Midge, who is about to step onstage.
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So moving, in fact, that Declan lets Midge see his famed masterpiece.
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Midge calls to apologize publicly and it's an uncomfortable and painful scene.
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In 1958, Midge finds out her husband, Joel, is having an affair.
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Is that enough to withstand the force of nature that is Midge?
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Midge has a knockout period wardrobe in sea green and paradise pink.
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Ahead, check out everything you need to complete your Midge Maisel costume.
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Currently, Brosnahan plays comedian Midge Maisel in Amazon's 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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Midge, living her nice-Jewish-girl Upper West Side dream in 1958.
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Brown isn't the only exciting guest star to join Midge Maisel's comedic universe.
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Maisel chooses not to show Midge wrestling with these feelings in subsequent episodes.
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Remember, Midge now knows what it's like to be a cheated-on wife.
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Still, the episode closes by proving Midge can't avoid the spotlight for long.
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That's why Midge looks more and more horrified throughout Declan's depressing "Hat" speech.
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Midge doesn't agree and turns her manager down for a celebratory night cap.
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This is only the first step in getting Abe's permission to marry Midge.
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Benjamin is a misanthropic Manhattan doctor; Midge is a charming, convention-defying comic.
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Unsurprisingly, Midge and Joel's stunning home would have cost them a pretty penny.
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This makes Midge and Joel's post-affair split a leading topic of conversation.
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He repeatedly tries to seduce Midge and refuses Ben's attempts to buy anything.
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Although Midge tried to invite her dad to the local show, Abe refused.
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Season 2 will also reportedly open with Midge on a trip to Paris.
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"Tit's up," Midge declares as she struts across the stage in the teaser.
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Midge Maisel and her parents visit the Catskills this season, and it's delightful!
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Midge recovers because she is charming and spectacular and marvelous and all that.
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In a world of hamburger roles for television ingénues, Midge was a porterhouse.
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"Wait, there's already gum in here," Brosnahan, as Midge, said, her forehead crinkling.
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However, there's a chance neutralizing the animosine could also kill Amber and Midge.
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Midge was an unpopular loner lurking in the back of the group photo.
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Rather than catch Midge, her fellow campers started a party on the cliffs.
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Midge fell off those cliffs on her way trying to find the party.
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Midge Maisel is back for another season, but this time … she's on tour.
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I definitely borrowed bits and pieces of her in the creation of Midge.
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Whenever Midge gets up on the standup comedy stage, her scenes are electrifying.
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Susie, her manager remains the only character to put Midge in her place; when Midge says she needs to leave for two months to take a vacation, thereby slowing Susie's ability to book her into clubs, Susie offers a reality check.
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"[Midge] knows all about us," Moose claims after inviting Kevin to join the couple.
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Miriam "Midge" Maisel's (Rachel Brosnahan) first stand-up appearance isn't at a comedy club.
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In terms of straight biography, Midge and Rivers share some overlap — but not much.
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Midge and Rivers' frankness about women's bodies is refreshing, but there's a flip side.
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The reason: leading lady Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) has far too many lives.
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Yet, Midge, who also decided to inadvisably go blonde in college, has me beat.
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Midge shows up at the Gaslight wine-drunk, rain-soaked, and in her nightgown.
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Fed up with failure, Midge screams at Susie she "can't do this!" yet again.
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Like any good comic, Midge takes the uncomfortable moment and turns it into comedy.
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This is the man Midge thought she was married to, but never really was.
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Despite Sophie's hackery, Midge is awed when she meets the comic following her show.
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Then, Midge is more-than-awed when she visits Sophie's home later that week.
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After three months apart, we can finally glimpse Midge and her husband's supposed chemistry.
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He also shot both Midge and Moose, solely because they were doing Jingle Jangle.
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Think back to the season 2 premiere, "Simone," when Midge calls Joel from Paris.
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Because of this shift, vacationing exactly as Midge Maisel today would be near impossible.
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Maisel starts the episode telling us Midge and Benjamin aren't going to get married.
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Oh, yes, this is also when Midge learns drag is a thing that exists.
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No one is there and it's awkward, but Midge makes the best of it.
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After fleeing Philly, Midge realizes she completely forgot Imogene's baby shower, which she planned.
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Season 3 of Marvelous will also see Midge trying to detangle her personal life.
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It's clear Midge has been doing her undercover routine for four years of marriage.
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For her, the show is too polished by half—the character of Midge included.
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But the first time Midge ever tells a joke into a microphone, she kills.
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Whether local ecosystems will benefit from a new midge joining them remains to be seen.
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Everything's coming up roses for Midge, and that means something obviously has to go wrong.
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For at least the fifth time in four episodes, Midge does a perfect impromptu set.
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A caught-off-guard Midge goes along with it as his smiling straight (wo)man.
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By the end of the episode, the Midge and Susie partnership is officially back on.
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A telethon for arthritis and rheumatism is coming up and Midge is going to perform.
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Or Midge and Susie's feud with the ultra powerful comedy agent Harry Drake (David Paymer).
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However, his undeniable comic timing with Midge suggests a relationship is looming in the future.
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Noah drives Midge to the gig, not knowing he's driving his sister to a gig.
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After nearly passing out onstage, Midge starts word vomiting about secrets and father-daughter relationships.
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Midge was obviously right to spend her evening standing in the middle of the room.
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Midge and Susie head back to New York for the final performance of the tour.
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Midge Maisel wasn't a real-life figure ― but she was partially inspired by Joan Rivers.
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As far as costumes go, Midge lives somewhere on the easier side of the spectrum.
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Midge, the loner who was actually at Peregrine the camp season prior, also believes that.
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Maisel, explains, that degree of agency wasn't an option for Miriam "Midge" Maisel in 1958.
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The final and most important one shows a hospital gown-clad Midge in a mirror.
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It's unlikely Moishe is going to go easy on Midge for losing the Shy gig.
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Midge says she met Shy in a ladies' bathroom and he was the prettier one.
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Watching his act, Midge grows increasingly worried that she'll end up alone, just like him.
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The singer who is giving Midge Maisel her big break didn't exist in real life.
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We learn that Midge was the one who wanted a one-night stand, nothing more.
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S. takes more pictures while I try to keep moving to avoid becoming a midge buffet.
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This way, her husband of nearly half a decade only sees Midge at her radiant best.
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Maisel told the story of Midge Maisel getting divorced and discovering her natural talent for comedy.
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Remember how Moose and Midge were shot in their car in a "lover's lane" type spot?
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According to the trailer, Midge is still keeping her comedy pursuit a secret from her parents.
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As she becomes more successful, Midge will eventually have to reveal her whole self to them.
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The sexist judge Hackett (Joe Grifasi) follows suit, and has Midge arrested for contempt of court.
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Then, in a rarity for television, we actually see Midge workshop the joke over multiple gigs.
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Midge learns Susie confronted Sophie when they had agreed to let the one-sided feud go.
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Midge, however, stays through the meal and begs her mother to return home with her father.
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Since he doesn't want Midge to quit, Joel is instead going to try to quit her.
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So great, he even offers to buy Midge a fantastic apartment, which she doesn't exactly want.
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He's terrified of blowing up the Weissmans' life for something Midge might not even permanently pursue.
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Since Abe can't lie to his wife again, he tells Midge to just tell everyone already.
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After that absolute blast of a conversation, Midge and Susie show up for their Philadelphia gig.
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While Lorelai doesn't end up having that wedding, there is someone who does: Midge (Rachel Brosnahan).
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"What I love about Midge is that she is so not a feminist," Brosnahan told me.
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The scene was simple enough: Sort toys into bags while gossiping about Midge and Joel's separation.
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Midge, it turns out, can do what Joel did better, in heels and bearing a brisket.
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The first season ended with Midge giving a triumphant, confessional standup set at a downtown club.
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Midge, Ms. Sherman-Palladino said proudly, has found "a much bigger audience to mouth off at."
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"You have no idea," Midge says in a way that is far more threatening than hopeful.
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But, Midge also likely resents Amber just as much as she dislikes Mia, if not more.
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"I still haven't found my way back," Midge says in narration to close out the episode.
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In the process, Midge was sublimated and trapped inside of Amber (hence all her yearning narration).
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Midge dressed up for her court appearance to make sure she looked like an upstanding citizen.
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Midge didn&apost — and she had to pick herself up and get her act together pronto.
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Okay, so it wasn&apost exactly Midge&aposs choice to move back into the family nest.
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With Ken as the only escort, I stole my brothers' G.I. Joe for double dates with Midge.
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While Midge is more reticent about the subject on stage, she does take her body measurements daily.
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Maisel, Midge (played by Rachel Brosnahan) has two children under the age of 4, Ethan and Esther.
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Susie wants to know what the hell she should do with a talent as promising as Midge.
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Ever the planner, Midge immediately starts taking notes on what she has to work on besides material.
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Although the men in her life are making big choices for Midge, she personally has no idea.
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It's the same phone Susie claimed she never bought during her supposedly partnership-ending argument with Midge.
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X At The Gaslight" A better title for this episode would be, "Susie Saves Midge From Improv.
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This is something Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) realizes soon into season 1 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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Originally, Midge is scheduled to go on the telethon during the plumb time of 9:50 p.m.
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So let's break this finale down character by character, saving the best, Midge Maisel, naturally, for last.
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Maisel, out December 5, treats Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) to a swath of glimmering new life prospects.
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Imogene, who hasn't heard from Midge in weeks, had no idea her supposed BFF went to Paris.
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One awful woman, Alya Feinberg (Ariana Venturi), tells Midge she and her husband are taking Joel's side.
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Midge is also barred from the teen and ingenue races due to her age and past marriage.
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This is charming until you realize Midge definitely rattled off the fake reports for the entire trip.
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Midge and Benjamin spend the meteor show watch party together, which Joel notices and doesn't particularly enjoy.
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Towards the end of the episode, Joel punches a jerk in the face for Midge (and Susie)!
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When Midge is revealed on stage, eyes closed and covered in blood, Jughead's camera gets jostled about.
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In the Catskills, Midge responds in the worst possible way to seeing her father in the audience.
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But when Midge gets on stage, her spiel is fresh, partly because she isn't really doing jokes.
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Midge is a hobbyist, at least at first, and Susie desperately needs her to become a professional.
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Midge is like a sardonic Hulk; she gets hurt, she gets angry and her superpower bursts forth.
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In "The Dog of the South," the narrator, Ray Midge, drives to Mexico from Little Rock, Ark.
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Midge, the girl who came back from the dead after a Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde situation?
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Brosnahan took home the Emmy last year for her role as fast-talking, hilarious and charismatic Midge.
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That means more Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) and her ever-expanding world of lightning fast comedy.
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The animosine created Amber, the queen bee persona Midge always wanted to be and never could achieve.
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Of these, only one, the Antarctic midge, is able to survive at the bottom of the planet.
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Midge came to Harlem-born Shy's home and outs him in front of hundreds of his neighbors.
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She also scores Midge a great gig at a nearby resort, which should lead to great things!
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When the show is filming, Lenny uses his clout to get Midge onto the stage with him.
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We know there has been a lot of mom-shaming regarding Midge&aposs working outside the home.
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Rachel Brosnahan Brosnahan has had an incredible year with her breakout role as Midge in The Marvelous Mrs.
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The Amy Sherman-Palladino TV universe is coming full circle: Lorelai Gilmore is about to meet Midge Maisel.
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Help the special person in your life find their inner Midge... or at least some stunning block heels.
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Where to watch: Hulu Midge Maisel finds an unlikely calling in standup comedy after her husband leaves her.
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The second time Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) meets Lenny Bruce in the pilot episode of The Marvelous Mrs.
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Whether that's actually true, or whether Midge is a "bad" or "good" mom, is ultimately beside the point.
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As an anxiety-ridden Joel was already doing before his public embarrassment, he projects his frustrations onto Midge.
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Midge goes to tell her parents, who conveniently live right upstairs, of Joel's bombshell, and it's immediate madness.
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A Black woman, who's actually politically involved and passionate about Jane's work, looks on, applauding rich, privileged Midge.
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It is exhausting to watch Midge repeatedly raise Susie's hopes and then dash them without a second thought.
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This is how Leny ends up doing a free Gaslight show for Midge as an effort in rebranding.
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Her parents plan is to either shame Midge for the job or convince her not to do it.
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Rose's psychic (Katrina Lenk), sees Midge in front of an big adoring audience while talking into a microphone.
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At the other, the dapper doctor Benjamin (Zachary Levi), whom Midge meets while on vacation in the Catskills.
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Midge talks her way into getting Mary the church's beautiful Window Room for an early evening wedding reception.
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Although Midge's shows are going well, Susie reminds Midge they're not exactly rolling in the dough just yet.
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Even though Susie is peeved, she informs Midge she got her a great booking back in the Catskills.
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Even with these side romances, Joel asks Midge to share the last dance of the summer with him.
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" Midge is the type of woman who has definitely been described, perhaps to her face, as "a lot.
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Midge, played with carbonated speed by Rachel Brosnahan, is not only a champion, she's a demolisher of records.
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The first half was published in Harper's , where Mailer's editor was Midge Decter, who happens to be Mrs.
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In the show Mr. Bruce's character befriends Midge Maisel who, in 933, is trying to break into comedy.
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When Joel realizes his talent doesn't match his ambition, he blames Midge and leaves her for his secretary.
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Joanna Kelley, an evolutionary geneticist at Washington State University, helped to sequence the Antarctic midge genome in 2014.
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The spring midge orchid, a flower found only in a handful of sites in coastal New South Wales.
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As with all prior seasons, 2019's batch of episodes repeatedly reminds us Midge is destined for greatness.
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Maybe not the thing you want Midge helping out on, so needless to say, it goes completely amiss.
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Still upset about how Midge dissed her in a set, Sophie Lennon's (Jane Lynch) goons come after Susie.
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Maisel, Rose Weissman (Marin Hinkle) and Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) bicker over the size of a child's head.
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Lead character Midge doesn&apost have any money saved for her divorce, leaving her in a bad position.
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So Joel's schedule is pretty hectic, and it definitely creates sort of a rift between he and Midge.
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He ends up at the Gaslight amid an odd series of events: Joel tries to revive his stand-up career thinking that's what Midge wants, heads to Music Inn after Midge talks about it, overhears her infamous record, and is so devastated by her performance he inexplicably quits his job.
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While Midge loves being the center of attention — a fact the show cops to from the first minute, when it opens with Midge giving her own wedding speech — the reason she's drawn to performing as a comedian is that it gives her a space in which she can be herself.
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BUT THEN Midge Klump turns up dead after the musical, which means the Black Hood is alive and well.
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Oh, and here's something else that's certainly worth considering: have Abe, Rose, and Midge ever had Cuban food before?
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Could Ethel (Shannon Purser) have harmed Midge after being rejected for the role of Carrie not once, but twice?
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Maisel, Midge Maisel's seemingly perfect life takes a surprise turn, which leads her to a bold new career move.
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Speaking of Midge being a girl after my own heart, I have to admit something to you, Maisel friend.
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Although Susie is correct, it's easy to see why Midge is so unsure about starting an entirely new path.
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That latter descriptor is what gets Midge arrested for the second time in a matter of about 213 hours.
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Following last episode's arrest, we find Midge sitting in jail, still wearing her Joel-impressing red sweetheart neckline dress.
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Joel seems resigned to going without while his family lives the high life since Midge doesn't want him back.
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As a woman who created a character to succeed in the industry, Sophie tells Midge to do the same.
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This is how Midge ends up setting her career on fire in front of a room full of people.
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Susie is far less smiley alone in her apartment, staring at the business phone she purchased to manage Midge.
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Once they're both done barely saying "I'm sorry," Midge asks a dubious Susie to come to the party too.
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Then, by the end of "All Alone," it's Midge and Joel who are making out to wrap the season.
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Upon arrival, Midge and Susie find a candy-colored stage that will only get glitzier as the episode continues.
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While this is the best turn of events possible for the Weissman parents, it's terrible for Midge and Susie.
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While a reconciliation doesn't seem imminent, Midge at least helps Joel find a new apartment hiding under his nose.
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This is Maisel's way of telling us Midge and Ben are going to sleep together for the first time.
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When Ricky begins to say something rude about Midge, Joel punches him in the nose before he can finish.
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Joel offers to take Midge home via cab, but she says she wants to finish the trip with Susie.
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" Thanks to that truth, Midge and Susie's burgeoning, complicated, and necessary friendship "becomes the beautiful center of the story.
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"One of the things I love most about Midge is that she is unapologetically and unabashedly herself," Brosnahan says.
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None of this is to impugn Midge or this strawberry ice cream-flavored white fantasy concoction of a show.
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I hope in season three, even if the clothes get more drab, the challenges for Midge are more colorful.
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I was 21 when my parents sold the family house, and I tossed Beany and Dinny, Tobey and Midge.
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Mags' new formula is meant to neutralize the animosine, "reversing the process and bringing back Midge," the doctor explains.
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Yet, Midge proves she is a fighter as well, as her hand shoots out from the cliff behind Amber.
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But, when Amber is injured, the phone comes back to life and Mia learns a girl named Midge died.
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All Midge and Susie can do is cry and watch the plane disappear above the New York City skyline.
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It's not a rumor or an offensive "joke" — Midge knows, for a fact, that Shy is a gay man.
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No matter what Reggie told Midge about speaking about Shy, she knew the terrified singer wouldn't have wanted that.
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PEOPLE caught up with the actors ahead of the premiere, and both played coy about Midge and Joel's future.
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"[Sophie] gave me a piece of advice," Midge announces to her audience, pacing the stage like a restless lioness.
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The Paris thing is kind of a big spoiler… but I will say that Midge has a fantastic travel ensemble.
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One arthropod found in all homes was the gall midge, a fly just four-one hundredths of an inch long.
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Unlike Midge, it takes Bonnie much longer than one drunken night in a downtown club to figure out the answer.
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The show stars Rachel Brosnahan as Miriam "Midge" Maisel, a housewife in 1950's New York turned stand-up comedian.
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As we have already seen, when Midge is criticized with overbearing morality judgements from men in power she starts cursing.
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With her fine paid, Midge heads back into court to apologize to Judge Hackett, who practically gloats over his win.
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Look at poor baby Esther, whose body parts Midge is already measuring and Rose is worrying won't end up pretty.
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This is what leads Midge to the Village's Music Inn, where Susie introduces her to the underground party records downstairs.
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And, just like that, Midge has worked her way to a genuinely great tight 10 like a true working comedian.
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Midge Maisel is at the top of her game, and her husband couldn't be more in his feelings over it.
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Maisel is open to a new romance with Benjamin is because Joel refused to put his pride aside for Midge.
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That makes sense since Midge comes to terms with the fact that she can't wed Benjamin earlier in the episode.
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When Midge shows up to Joel's office-apartment, she has accepted her likely lonely future, and she's excited about it.
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Like Midge, who rants about taboo topics like sex and women's bodies in her comedy sets, Susie flouts societal expectations.
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It's not until Abe tells Midge she can marry Benjamin that she remembers her soon-to-be fiancé even exists.
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Episode 1 — "Simone" It's time to put on your finest headband and most triumphant smile, because Midge Maisel is back.
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He demands everyone stop staring at him and his wife and shames Pauly for kicking Midge out of the pageant.
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Midge and Ben go boating, and Benjamin immediately proves to be a walking archetype of the lovable, sardonic rich asshole.
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Midge has no idea Joel is self-destructing like this and is instead focusing on getting Ben a Declan Howell.
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After all of these antics, "She Made A Hat" still has time for Midge to spill her stand-up secret.
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Despite the high-intensity situation, Midge exits dinner fairly unscathed and heads out to the Gaslight for her big gig.
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Midge began moonlighting as a comedian, despite the fact that her new lifestyle caused major upheaval in her traditional family.
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The series has a rom-com heart with its exploration of Midge and her estranged husband Joel's (Michael Zegen) marriage.
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But like most seemingly content housewives in the '50s, Midge has something besides a life of domesticity on her mind.
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Midge effectively hijacks dinner parties to workshop her jokes, to the point where other guests must sit rapt in silence.
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Midge pre-Penny would never miss a social engagement for a friend, but now she is working toward something else.
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In reality, the "classic six" that Midge and Joel inhabit is the real-life childhood apartment of architect Allegra Kochman.
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When Joel, a wannabe comic, cheats with his secretary, Midge gets drunk and jumps onstage, and, right away, she kills.
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The midge, for instance, could detect carbon dioxide being exhaled in an ordinary human breath from hundreds of feet away.
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There's a plot reason: Midge and her anxious father, Abe (Tony Shalhoub), are chasing after Midge's mother, Rose (Marin Hinkle).
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There is still comedy; as in Season 1, most episodes manage to get Midge on stage for a standup set.
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Midge still gets the wittiest rat-a-tat banter, of course, but now she has lots of highly entertaining help.
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"It happened last year," said Francisco Lindor, Cleveland's dynamic shortstop, in recalling a more recent midge invasion at the stadium.
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When the midge larvae experience cold, the icy environment creates a gradient for water loss, extracting water from their bodies.
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First and foremost, Midge, feeling confident after some successes and looking to protect her family, has just bought an apartment.
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Even though Midge is on the up-and-up, she's still pretty far from hanging out on Johnny Carson's couch.
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"You're still staring," Midge tells Lenny, who has never looked more dapper than this moment under the club's pink lights.
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Midge is performing for the troops at a USO show before she heads out on tour with crooner Shy Baldwin.
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Rose sees this as a perfect opportunity to try and set Midge up with a young eligible doctor, Benjamin (a widely underused and underappreciated Zachary Levi), and though she isn't too keen on the idea at first, Midge eventually goes out with him (and then goes out with him a few more times after that).
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Maisel, a show about a 1950s Jewish woman in New York City named Midge Maisel who pursues a career in comedy.
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Archie and Veronica tell Betty she should come back to school, but she won't because her father shot Midge and Moose.
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Like Midge, fellow mom-of-two Bonnie has no idea who she is without the title "housewife" next to her name.
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At the trailer, Fangs (Drew Ray Tanner) tells Jughead he was hooking up with Midge, but that he didn't kill her.
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Jughead confirms to Archie that a Serpent did hook up with Midge, and Archie agrees to get Reggie to back down.
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Or, maybe, unlike his stabbed-to-death lover Midge (Emilija Baranac), the show wanted to give Fangs a less tragic ending.
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Midge is spotted by agent Susie Meyerson, who is played by Alex Borstein (Getting On), and thus, her standup career began.
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Both recently-introduced character Midge Klump (Emilija Baranac) and Archie himself know to hit up Reggie for their "jingle-jangle" needs.
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Though, dear Susie, do not despair, for Midge didn't mean to leave you high and dry — she simply forgot about you.
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Midge buys one by Redd Foxx, a real-life comedian like many of the celebrities mentioned throughout Maisel, including Lenny Bruce.
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The massive dilemma that Midge and Susie end up facing is the former's, er, "spontaneity," as the latter would put it.
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This single gig is all that's standing between Midge and what could be her big break, opening for a veritable legend.
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It's a good thing Midge has a new friend, because her education in this episode extends far beyond the comedy ropes.
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Midge is invited as moral support and finds out about the party just as Susie strides into B. Altman to reconcile.
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Bell Labs considers the fact Midge knows about this project, and is telling rooms of strangers about it, a security risk.
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Rose takes this as a promise Midge and Benjamin will wed and her daughter will give another speech at her wedding.
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Joel was heartbroken after the performance, and Midge tracks him down to a brownstone stoop that probably belongs to his parents.
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One of Midge Maisel's worst personality traits is believing people want to hear from her all the time, no matter what.
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Joel even reveals Midge donated her swimsuit competition winnings to an orphanage in the Bronx during her eight-year winning streak.
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He asks Midge on a date for the next night since he has tickets to The Legend Of Lizzie on Broadway.
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We don't see her performance, but everyone agrees Midge was on fire for the booker who came just to see her.
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Midge starts off with a show in Washington D.C. The show goes smashingly until a fire breaks out in the kitchen.
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But Midge is right when she says sometimes men's support is necessary in a man's world, which comedy happens to be.
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Midge asks why Zelda didn't clean up the disaster and Rose says the whole thing is her daughter's mess to fix.
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Maisel takes place in season one, when Miriam "Midge" Maisel (as played by Rachel Brosnahan) is getting ready to fall asleep.
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In the show's magnificent pilot, Midge stumbles on stage drunk and her wine-fueled rant becomes her first standup performance. Rude!
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She is living in a dump, and finds herself in danger after Midge outs a very successful rival during her act.
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The interludes involving the personalities around Midge, however, largely prove to be distracting detours, beginning with an unexpected sojourn to Paris.
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The Gaslight Cafe, where Midge gets her start in comedy, was a real venue in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood.
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"To me, it's kind of ludicrous," said Midge Grinstead, the Kansas state director for the Humane Society of the United States.
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When Midge announces that she's vacationing in the Catskills for two months, missing a summer's worth of gigs, Susie is aghast.
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The virus is typically transmitted by a biting midge, Culicoides paraensis, that ranges from Argentina to as far north as Wisconsin.
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It was Amber, not Mia, who took over Midge's form and imprisoned Midge in a tiny part of her own body.
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The first season of the show focused on Brosnahan's Midge Maisel as she transforms from housewife into a stand-up comedian.
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Incensed by his decision, a frustrated Midge decides to give the mic a try and whaddya know – she's a laugh riot!
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Our heroine Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) had just secured a spot on tour with fictional pop star Shy Baldwin (Leroy McClain).
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Instead, worried that Shy's all-Black audience will not accept her, Midge riffs on what Shy is like behind-the-scenes.
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It's an obvious truth that Joel doesn't disagree with — he just asks if Susie is going to tell Midge as much.
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However, Sophie also tries to woo Susie away to be her agent, since she likes how much she fights for Midge.
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Later, there's a tease of a new love interest, but even in divorce court, the chemistry between Midge and Joel crackles.
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And I think Midge and Joel will always be there for each other, and will always love each other very much.
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"Midge is on tour, and that means that Joel is going to have to take care of the kids," he explained.
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It takes some convincing — Midge was, after all, a bottle of kosher wine deep when she performed her first accidental set.
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Brosnahan won a 2018 Golden Globe for her performance as Midge, a 1950s housewife who decides to become a stand-up comic.
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At school, Kevin (Casey Cott) finds Moose (Cody Kearsley) crying in the bathroom over Midge (Emilija Baranac) and they begin making out!
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The show goes on, albeit with Midge Klump (Emilija Baranac) playing Carrie due to Penelope Blossom's meddling ways (more on that below).
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There's also the possibility that whoever killed (or at least very badly hurt Midge) was using the Black Hood as a scapegoat.
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But knowing his aim with Moose and Midge in episode 3, maybe this isn't the last we'll see of The Sugar Man?
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This time, it's Lenny Bruce, who lets Midge wear his jacket when he takes her to post-precinct dinner at a diner.
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The first time I saw that, I was stunned to consider the fact Midge has kept up her charade for 113 years.
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Although Midge admittedly knows nothing about the issues at hand, Jane picks our heroine out of the crowd to share her story.
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While Susie has never walked the nightclub's famed gilded halls, Midge went to the spot with Joel for their anniversary last year.
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As a fully functioning adult with a working brain, Midge assures her father she's well-aware of what having a job means.
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That is what what makes Midge an enemy of both New York's leading woman comedian and that star's all-powerful comedy manager.
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Midge applies the same treatment to a little boy on the subway who unknowingly asked about a strange man's barely concealed erection.
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The makeup expert assumes it's a spur-of-the-moment thing, but, in reality, Randall is springing a business meeting on Midge.
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Minutes later, Susie finds out Midge is now scheduled to go on at 11:303, the absolute worst slot of the special.
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Unfortunately, though, living in Midge and Joel's or Rose and Abe's actual homes is impossible because, according to Groom, they're not real.
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Star Rachel Brosnahan took home a lead actress award for her unstoppable, fast-talking, housewife-turned-burgeoning stand-up Miriam "Midge" Maisel.
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Quickly, we're reminded of why Rose is so upset in the first place (read: Midge denying Joel and everyone lying about it).
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Prior to the Weissmans' return, Midge and Susie are playing roomies as the latter hides out from Harry Drake and his goons.
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It's worth noting Midge did not even consider calling Benjamin, who finally got a last name in the last episode (it's Ettenberg).
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That's okay, because Amazon just dropped a trailer for Amy Sherman-Palladino show's sophomore season, proving Midge has more shenanigans in store.
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Whether Midge is cooking the perfect brisket or floating into Joel's office before a trip downtown, she always looks camera-ready perfect.
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If Midge really wants to cut her teeth as a comic, she's going to disappoint people close to her now and again.
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The role models in front of us were people like Bill Buckley, Irving Kristol, James Q. Wilson, Russell Kirk and Midge Decter.
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Whereas Rivers was an alienated oddball, a loner fuelled by rejection, gagging onstage at her own "ugliness," Midge is popular and pretty.
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Her act rarely matches her charmed life—why would Midge, so wooed and worshipped, rave about how women are experts on rejection?
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Midge is the kind of woman who sets a blistering tempo and waits for the rest of the world to catch up.
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This in turn makes it hard to know just what the stakes are: How badly does Midge need to be a comic?
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A foremother that modern comedy should have had, Midge is a reverse-engineered ancestor of an Ali Wong or a Tig Notaro.
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Season 3, episode 6, "Kind of Bleu" confirms as much, as Midge finds Shy battered in the hull of his Miami boat.
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Midge is the on the road to true fame and success that she achieves with her talent — and on her own terms.
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In between all of that, leading lady Miriam "Midge" Maisel is far more taken with her career than any man (sorry, Benjamin).
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There is a bit in "Apollo" around whether or not Joel told Mei about his first — and allegedly only —marriage with Midge.
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Midge would prefer to keep it that way, however, Abe happens to stumble into the resort and sit through Midge's comedy show.
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Maisel season 2: Shy called Midge up, just like that, and asked her to be the opening act on his new tour.
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Likewise, Midge Maisel's red lipstick serves as a loud, look-at-me contrast to her housewife hairdo on The Marvelous Ms. Maisel.
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In this meeting of the mindless, Moose (Cody Kearsley) admits that Midge (Emilija Baranac) had been seeing someone behind his back: a Serpent.
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"Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound," a cogent and winning picture directed by Midge Costin, does this in a variety of ways.
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Unfortunately, there's also some bad news: We have no official word on when Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) will return to our TV screens.
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"I'm just hoping we can find out what happened and get justice for this," said Brancato's grandmother Midge LeBaron, reports the Boston Globe.
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And, so, we pick up four years later, with Midge as a happy, still-wealthy, Upper West Side mom-of-two and wife.
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That fate, and the need to actually break a sweat during a workout, is the future Midge is now, well, actually sweating about.
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The only real difference here is that Joel has swapped out Midge for his secretary mistress Penny Pan, who's happy to play house.
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So, let's figure out what led Midge to commit comedy career immolation before she even had much of a comedy career to immolate.
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Sliding out from behind his desk, Susie promises to destroy Lew and his agency, William Morris, if he ever goes near Midge again.
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In good news for Sophie and Midge, other stars are aligning to suggest Midge's future is aces, even with the terrible time slot.
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No one mentions that Midge is still very much married to Joel or that Benjamin has never met the Midge's kids on purpose.
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Rose's abrupt exist leaves Midge free to reveal things aren't as cut-and-dry as her mom may believe in the Maisel marriage.
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Then, when Ben leaves, Midge and her new artist friend have a heart-to-heart about the painting she bought a day earlier.
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At least the people who were in attendance loved the show, even though Midge arrived 220 minutes late thanks to classic NYC traffic.
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When Midge comes home, she finds the remnants of Imogene's bungled baby shower all over the living room, old plates of food included.
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From there, Midge befriends Lenny Bruce (played by Luke Kirby), strong arms her way into getting a manager, and becomes a rising star.
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When she hit a comedy club afterwards and accidentally performed a knock-out set, manager Susie (Alex Borstein) took Midge under her wing.
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What follows is a montage of Midge and Susie walking into various hotels, running through casinos and preparing for the comedian's set backstage.
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He gave it to her and she gave it to the person who became my agent, who gave it to Midge and Sarah.
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Rachel Brosnahan approaches beauty quite differently than Midge Maisel, the beloved character she plays on the hit Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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He, in turn, is immediately smitten in return; even though she is a divorcee, Midge is still the most desirable bachelorette in town.
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Midge finds an unlikely advocate in Susie Myerson (Alex Borstein), a rough-edged comedy manager who sees in her the next Mort Sahl.
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And the nominees are… CAUTION: Mild Spoilers Ahead Rachel Brosnahan is nominated for her role as Midge Maisel in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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Midge larvae turn proteins on or off in response to stress in their environment — conserving cellular components when they are dehydrated, for example.
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Still, Midge has to make those payments on the apartment, which she bought from her ex(ish) father-in-law Moishe (Kevin Pollak).
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As we see in "The Apollo," Susie has a severe gambling problem and it has started to harm both women, unbeknownst to Midge.
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As Reggie points out when he fires Midge, a comment about Shy's "Judy Garland shoes" hit too close to home for the performer.
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Much to the chagrin of her nearest and dearest, Midge—an erstwhile Upper West Side housewife—does the unthinkable: she gets a job.
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Maisel" Rachel Brosnahan returns as the feisty Midge for the third season of the multi-award winning comedy series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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"There are so many questions spinning around in my head," Miriam "Midge" Maisel says into the mic to a bewildered but intrigued crowd.
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Maisel pilot, when we find out the titular marvelous Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) goes to sleep every night in a full face of makeup.
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The Haggadah's typical yellow-brown color scheme has been replaced with Midge-approved pink, and fake drops of wine are printed on the pages.
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After Alice Cooper's (Mädchen Amick) solo (yes, even the mothers of Riverdale get solos in this musical), the set reveals Midge — our Carrie understudy.
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Kevin goes to the diner for a pre-movie dinner and bumps right into Moose and Midge, who invites him to join their booth.
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Some vintage Pyrex, a retro hat, and these new lipsticks are all you need to channel your best and most glamorous Midge Maisel vibes.
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In the trailer, Midge refers to him him her ex, but they share enough knowing glances for us to suspect their relationship isn't over.
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And what does it say about Midge herself, this ostensibly marvelous multitasking heroine, that she doesn't even attempt to make that room for them?
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That arrives in the form of Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby), the also-married veteran comedian who was in the same cop car as Midge.
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At this point, can anyone trust Joel and all of his porcelain ducks not to let Penny Pan baptize Ethan while Midge is gone?
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Unfortunately, Midge tries to expand her process by hiring a joke writer, whom she meets for a spontaneous Jewish feast at the Stage Diner.
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That creepy observation turns into a great personal joke about how Midge avoids her own young son's hard-to-answer questions about Joel's absence.
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This is all well and good, it's nice to see Midge actually honing her material in an inviting space, but then the improve starts.
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When the entire Weissman clan exits the restaurant over Joel's caustic presence, he follows Midge outside to apologize for accidentally ruining Abe's big night.
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Aside from size, the apartment where Midge and Joel are living when viewers meet them at the start of season 21959 is impeccably designed.
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Okay, yeah, Midge still has a number of hurdles to jump if she's ever going to become the superstar we know she can be.
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At least Midge has her first midtown-ish gig to look forward to following a publicity-upping interview between Susie and The Village Voice.
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Midge is originally scheduled to go third until she is bumped to fourth after one of the comedy club's regulars asks to perform earlier.
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As Susie (wo)mans the spotlight, Midge absolutely eviscerates all of the poorly dressed male comedians who were actively hoping to see her fail.
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The comedy club's booker is less enthused about a "girl comic" dragging his regular guys, yet he still hints he would hire Midge again.
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After assuring her doctor beau she has perfected the art of deflecting men's advances, Midge and Benjamin head over to Declan's sink-less studio.
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It's impossible not to wish Midge would have just hooked up with the tortured sexy artist who apparently created the greatest painting ever made.
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"I think the bold lip is the biggest difference between Midge and I and a lot of different characters that I've played," Brosnahan says.
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Maisel dropped on Monday, showing Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) as she embarks on a comedy tour opening for musician Shy Baldwin (Leroy McClain).
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Midge and Sarah had been showing the script to studios in the $5 million range—nobody would touch it because it was so dark.
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Rachel Brosnahan is nominated for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series for her role as Midge Maisel in Amazon's"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."
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But the new season also takes Midge outside of the Big Apple, off to both the Catskills and Paris, where Brosnahan particularly enjoyed filming.
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Midge builds her "tight ten" routine faster than any comic ever, according to Susie (Alex Borstein), who gets teary at her client's raw talent.
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Another food-themed stunt in June had Amazon teaming up with Postmates to offer a meal pack that included some of Midge Maisel's favorites.
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Dr. McAlister herself hates chocolate, but she is fond of the kind of flies that pollinate the cacao plant — a variety of biting midge.
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That accomplishment sets high expectations for Season 2, which continues the story of Midge (Rachel Brosnahan), a housewife-turned-comedian in late-1950s Manhattan.
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Brassy, raw and riotously confessional, Midge is a dedicated homemaker and accidental comedian who can hold her own against even the gab-gifted Gilmores.
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Like Lorelai, like Michelle, Midge finds herself "in a whole other life that she hadn't really thought about or considered," Ms. Sherman-Palladino said.
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Since, as we begin to learn in penultimate episode "Run, Mia, Run," Amber was created after Midge fell down a cliff on Peregrine Island.
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With that very revealing piece of information out there, the hallucination mirror flashes between Midge and Amber until Midge's face fully transforms into Amber's.
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Maisel Season 3 trailer finds Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) setting off on a comedy tour that takes her to L.A., Chicago, Miami, and Las Vegas.
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The Emmy-winning show tells the story of aspiring comedian Midge Maisel, a brassy New Yorker who grew up in a traditionally Jewish home.
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And like Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan), fans were able to take the mic and try their hand at stand-up if they so dared.
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Season 2 finale "All Alone" begins to set the stage for a top-of-her-game — but, as the episode title suggests, all alone — Midge.
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The series follows the titular marvelous Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan), a 19503s housewife who expects her life will fall apart when her marriage does.
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As a screaming match erupts, Midge bails and heads to the Gaslight to do a set heavily inspired by Russian Literature and the Old Testament.
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Speaking of Lenny, he invites Midge and a star-struck, stuttering Susie to an upcoming show he's doing at a jazz club for a friend.
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You've got that right folks, UWS princess Midge Maisel is smoking Mary Jane in Greenwich Village with a bunch of musicians like a regular beatnik.
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Now that Midge is politically activated, she heads to some comedy clubs with Susie to learn how the veteran stand-up grind looks up close.
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Once Midge is done repeatedly saying "Negro," stumbling through awkward office stories, and, finally being left in the literal dark onstage, she wobbles offstage, shaken.
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Another party drags Midge back into Randall's orbit when Viv is forced to throw her parents — and, therefore, Randall's aunt and uncle — an anniversary party.
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Susie stops Midge from being lured into a future as Randall's "cute, dizzy broad" sidekick by breaking into Lew's office when he's out to lunch.
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That honor goes to Midge and her ex-ish husband, Joel Maisel (Michael Zegen), whom we see get engaged in a very swoony flashback proposal.
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In fact, it seems Sophie's resentment of Midge, who revealed the wealthy woman is lying about her entire working class comedy persona, has only intensified.
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After all the progress our two heroines made over season 2, Midge doesn't see the point in antagonizing one of comedy's most powerful forces again.
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That said, Benjamin has one major advantage over Joel: He has yet to abandon Midge and their two children in a premature mid-life crisis.
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Towards the end of the episode, Midge brings Joel the bag of hidden money, and you can still feel the chemistry between the estranged couple.
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Apparently, the fleas have the ability to detect the unique chemical traces left in their environment by predators such as phantom midge larvae and fish.
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In the minute-long teaser, Midge declares that she's "going to the Catskills," a world away from NYC despite the less than three hour drive.
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Watch it hereIn 1958 New York, Midge Maisel's life is on track — husband, kids, and elegant Yom Kippur dinners in their Upper West Side apartment.
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Every year, the Maisel family spends two months at the Steiner Resort in the Catskills Mountains, and every year, Midge dominates the social scene there.
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Season 2 picks up where the first left off, and for a time brings Midge out of New York, to Paris and the borscht belt.
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The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Amazon series will return later this year, and it won't just be Midge who's embarking on a new adventure.
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If Midge can crawl back to life through inexplicable and still-unexplained supernatural abilities, what else may she be able to do in future episodes?
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The new season's trailer dropped in October and gave viewers a glimpse of the antics Midge and Susie get up to while on the road.
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You can easily dress as Midge, a fashion icon, by investing in a cute statement hat, dress, long coat, and perhaps some pearls or gloves.
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An accident, as we see in the finale cold open, that occurred after Kayleigh told Midge everyone forgot about her during the annual Peregrine Hunt.
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Purplish, wriggly and the size of a pinkie fingernail clipping, Antarctic midge larvae live for nearly two years underground, often near penguin and seal excrement.
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Her research showed that the Antarctic midge has a very small genome — the smallest reported for an insect at the time — with few repetitive elements.
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Midge — and, let&aposs acknowledge Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller and a few others IRL — broke into the male-dominated comedy field with sass and tenacity.
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It's moving to see Midge help clean Shy up, cover his wounds, and silently keep his confidence, supporting him precisely in the way he asked.
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Season 3 has Midge scoring her first opening act (for Shy), so we very much doubt that means she's at the end of her journey.
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" Zegen added that he's not sure if they are even meant to be, pointing out that Midge fulfilling Joel's show business dreams could be "emasculating.
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For Midge that means an unexpected burgeoning career in the downtown boys club that was, and still traditionally-slash-sadly is, the stand-up comedy scene.
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At 13, while I was only just starting to peruse the ASME academics tab at that age, Midge announced she was heading to Bryn Mawr college.
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While Midge fumes over the conclusion she jumps to, that Bob stole her husband's act, man-baby Joel reveals he's the thief in the situation. Obviously.
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To close the episode, a much-more-sober-than-last-time Midge is escorted out of the Gaslight by two officers and waves of audience applause.
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Later in the episode, we see Midge took her new friend up on that offer and the pair share cigarettes and a table following Lenny's set.
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While 28% of comics probably haven't died from mic-related incidents, it wouldn't be a bad idea for Midge to learn the mechanics of her craft.
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For a moment, both Midge and I question if she's only good onstage "drunk or stoned," but then I remember the Washington Square Park mini-set.
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Obviously, Midge is witnessing Abe and Rose's post-sex routine, even though the Weissmans are mumbling something about Zelda The Housekeeper (Matilda Szydagis) being at fault.
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Midge starts off doing her well-crafted act, but then veers off into an off-the-cuff rebuke of Sophie and her sexist so-called advice.
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During a post-sex chat, Midge explains she also used to powder the back marks left by said brassiere to make them less alarming for Joel.
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With the high romance of "All Alone's" final seconds, it's easy to believe Midge and Joel are finally ready to work on their relationship and family.
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If Declan's sad boy monologue isn't enough to convince Midge her professional passion is going to soon eclipse everything else, Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby) reminds her.
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In the last act of "Alone," Bruno Mars protype and superstar Shy calls Midge to ask her to open for him during his upcoming European tour.
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Midge doesn't have time to wallow in this romantic curveball and leaves to see support a forlorn Lenny Bruce for his late-night Steve Allen appearance.
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Maisel continues to make the case for Joel later in the episode when he and Midge share a magically lit slow dance at opening night dinner.
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Rather, Midge listens to her mother talk about Ben's potential for days until she finally tracks the doctor down and demands they do something public together.
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He gets on a rowboat with Midge but refuses to row and reads her the most depressing news possible when she's trying to pretend to laugh.
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Midge arrives on time for her set at the Concord, a walkable distance from Steiner, where she will be performing for her biggest crowd to date.
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The reason the Midge Stand-Up Bomb hasn't truly hit the Maisel family yet is because Abe doesn't seem to know how to process the information.
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While a shocking amount of this episode revolves around Abe's disillusionment in regards to his children, there are also some romantic advancements for Midge and Joel.
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Midge Sanford (Producer): My partner Sarah Pillsbury won an Academy Award for a short film she produced but she couldn't get a job in the business.
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The show makes the classic bet that people will be mesmerized by the upper class turmoil and white feminist struggle of the main character Midge Maisel.
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Her take on Midge—the snappy phrasings, the forceful pertness, the almost desperate overdose of pluck—had the irresistible hamminess of a classic comedic stage performance.
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If you ask Midge Maisel (played by Rachel Brosnahan) what it takes to be her, she'd probably say gumption — and maybe a really good brisket recipe.
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Having spent the first season watching Midge go through "an extraordinary change," Marin, who plays Midge's mother, said Season 2 would see that spirit affecting others.
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" Then, when Reggie is forced to fire Midge and hop on the plane, he promises a stricken Susie, "You're gonna be right where I am someday.
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First, Lenny takes Midge to the tapping of Miami After Dark, a Watch What Happens-like local late night show (which appears to be totally fictional).
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It's possible the Amazon series could swap Weinstock out for Midge in future seasons, should creator Amy Sherman-Palladino choose to grapple with Bruce's painful death.
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After her aspiring-stand-up husband turns out to be a dud both onstage and off, Midge discovers she's actually the one with the comedy chops.
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Tensions rise for Fangs when someone leaks the video of him with Midge backstage at the musical, and the Sheriff comes and takes Fangs away for questioning.
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Kimmy and Midge may exist in very different versions of New York City (the shows are set five decades apart), but both exude a sunniness that's undeniable.
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Given their parents' emphasis on education, both women received degrees from prestigious schools: Rivers was Phi Beta Kappa at Barnard, Midge studied Russian lit at Bryn Mawr.
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She lost out to Rachel Brosnahan, who nabbed the award for the second year in a row for her turn as Midge in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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The trailer is brimming with clues as to what we can expect next for Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) and her budding career in stand-up comedy.
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Some characters are more obvious than others when it comes to their pursuit of maintaining the "ideal body" — like Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) on The Marvelous Mrs.
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As a flashback shows, Midge attained these goals complete with a "fat" freshman year roommate who apparently wouldn't have the ability to steal our hero's hypothetical boyfriend.
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While Joel wants to "give it another go," winning the award for Least Romantic Reconciliation Attempt Of The 27th Century, Midge shoots him down because he left.
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This is true because even when Joel noted during his post-sex heart-to-heart with Midge he never apologized for abandoning her, he still doesn't apologize.
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While the duo only got two true date episodes this season — and Midge phoned Joel last episode for an emergency — Ben is now talking seriously about marriage.
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The next time we see Midge and Susie, they're entering the telethon and Maisel is reminding us of just how good the show is at set design.
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The few people who stayed to watch Midge's seat are practically rolling in the aisles from laughter — especially the women in the audience who find Midge inspiring.
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That dark scene is how I found out Midge jokingly questioned in front of everyone whether Mary's marriage to her new husband Bill is a shotgun wedding.
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After about five minutes of a profanity-filled, family-dragging, sexual history-revealing set, Midge realizes her father is sitting about a yard away, frozen in anger.
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The most powerful part of this little family melodrama is when Abe asks if Midge is as good as the comedian Steiner booked for the farewell dinner.
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Declan then tries to seduce Midge one more time, but she rebuffs him and leaves to tell Benjamin he can take one Howell piece for his collection.
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When the gifting ends, Moose (Cody Kearsley) and Midge (Emilija Baranac) return, but Archie is consumed with thoughts of the Black Hood at the site of them.
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When Brosnahan does have to transform into Midge, the housewife-turned-comedian who's never without lashes, blush, and a signature red lip, makeup plays a significant role.
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Midge is no Claire Underwood or Serena Joy, but when we extol her virtues, let us not pretend that to be demure and polite is among them.
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In the final episode of Season 2, Midge misses her friend's baby shower because of a gig – a shower she had been diligently planning and talking up.
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Maisel, we learn that Miriam "Midge" Maisel, a housewife-turned-comedienne in 1950s New York City, has won a summer bikini contest eight years in a row.
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Spend your long flight in 1950s New York with Miriam "Midge" Maisel (played brilliantly by Globe winner Rachel Brosnahan), who discovers her penchant for stand-up comedy.
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Watch it herePlot synopsis: In 1958 New York, Midge Maisel's life is on track — husband, kids, and elegant Yom Kippur dinners in their Upper West Side apartment.
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And if you want to dine like Midge, you can eat at La Bonbonniere, a classic West Village breakfast spot (called "The City Spoon" on the show).
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To anyone who knows me, it is clearly not me — I am not married, my mother's name is not Midge, and I was not born in 1951.
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"The idea of doing an open mic makes me throw up," she said, sitting in a West Village cafe near the clubs where Midge would have performed.
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Maisel, Hasbro teamed up with Amazon Prime to create a board game inspired by the hit TV series that quite literally brings Midge Maisel's world to life.
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Midge's manager Susie (Alex Borstein) has also made professional strides, prompting Midge to fret that she's "distracted" and that she might no longer be her sole priority.
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He cries over the idea of Reggie learning this horror happened "again" and explains to Midge all the girls he is seen with are for the photos.
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That premise would also mean Joel cheated on Mei — a woman he admits he barely knows by finale "Apollo" — with Midge at the dawn of their relationship.
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Midge really outdoes herself when she gives a toast at the wedding that is completely ill-received, leading her to realize that not everyone thinks she's hilarious.
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Before the whole Joel thing, Midge lands a spot in a televised fundraiser which is a big get for her... except that Sophie Lennon is also performing.
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Reggie is no-nonsense, which might not fare well for Susie (Alex Borstein) and Midge (Rachel Brosnahan), who is heading out on tour as Shy's opening act.
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In Maisel's seventh episode, for example, Midge has been doing well enough as a standup that she sells out the club in which she first melted down.
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Maisel went to Paris, the Catskills, and rural Pennsylvania in season 2, but Rachel Brosnahan's Midge Maisel is going all-out with a trip to Miami next season.
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Then, towards the end of the episode, Hiram tells Reggie that Southsider Fangs, who is accused of killing Midge despite a lack of real evidence, is leaving jail.
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At the end of last season, two progressions occurred in Midge and Joel's relationship: They sleep together, and he recognizes that she is very, very talented at comedy.
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While watching The Ed Sullivan Show one night, Midge sees genuinely famous comic Bob Newhart doing the exact set Joel just did at the Gaslight in the Village.
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Although Midge swears the party isn't "for that," AKA reminding Joel what he would be missing by leaving, she still wears her stunning red dress, as Rose advises.
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Since Midge can't hide out among the dog figurines and matinee idol photographs forever, she eventually heads to the Gaslight to figure out what's next in her career.
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Although Susie, now boasting eight whole business cards, claims they're not sure what kind of comic Midge is, the young woman has actually gotten it all figured out.
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Since every single person we've seen with that job description in an old white, presumably working-class man, the manager of B. Altman very politely turns Midge down.
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This is the second time an older person has told Midge a beautiful women can't be taken seriously (the other example was with Abe during the JFK chat).
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As any good AS-P heroine would do, Midge doesn't see how her own actions — or non-actions, like skipping any form of prep — led to the fiasco.
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Maisel, viewers are treated to a three-episode vacation from 1950s New York City as Midge and her family head to the Catskills for their annual summer getaway.
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With a price tag like that, it's no wonder Midge was less than thrilled when she found out Joel's father had been the one to pay for it.
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As the title suggests, "Welcome To The Catskills" follows the annual Weissman family trip to the Catskills, a tradition that is almost exactly as old as Midge herself.
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Midge seriously believes her sketchy motel manager will be bringing her bags up to her room, like they're still at Steiner, land of tomato juice and house boys.
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During a payphone conversation between Midge and Joel, he asks to speak to Susie for a moment under the guise of telling her how to change a tire.
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Before doling out any helpful tips, Joel thoroughly threatens Susie that if anything happens to Midge during their run around the East Coast, he's "gonna fucking kill" her.
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In the show, he played Jackie, the M.C. at the Gaslight comedy club, where Midge Maisel, the housewife-turned-comic played by Rachel Brosnahan, got her unwitting start.
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It's hard to imagine anyone else playing Midge Maisel, but Brosnahan thought she bombed her preliminary audition and was sick during her camera test with the show's creators.
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Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) has it all, at least as 1958 defines "it all": An Upper West Side apartment big enough to house a Macy's parade float.
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The ultimate boundary pusher (and a force in the life of the fictional Midge Maisel), Bruce pulled the tablecloth out from under comedy's respectable gags and one-liners.
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To recreate B. Altman & Company, the luxury department store where Midge works, Ms. Foley turned to a former bank building that now houses the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center.
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Though a great opportunity for Midge, the tour presents a number of problems, so insecurities are high, nerves are frayed and bad options start to look rather tempting.
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Midge and her manager Susie Meyerson (Alex Borstein) are literally left out in the cold as they watch Shy's tour jet fly away to some fair European country.
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But about the financial lessons that Midge, her parents Abe and Rose Weissman, Susie Myerson, and others have imparted in the first two seasons we spent with them.
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But she knew she was capable of more: She wanted to actually manage talent — and was ready to make the leap when the talented Midge crossed her path.
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There was that moment — that unforgettable moment — when Midge donned the Audrey Hepburn (or Joan Rivers?) dress at the end of the first season and became … Mrs. Maisel.
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The stage is set for even more drama, as the final shots of the season showed Midge quite literally running into the arms her ex-husband Joel (Michael Zegen).
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In a letter to Alice Cooper (Mädchen Amick), the Black Hood takes credit for his crimes, which include shooting Fred (Luke Perry), Moose (Cody Kearsley) and Midge (Emilija Baranac).
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In the shot, Midge lounges poolside, pristinely coiffed as ever and wearing a hot pink, vintage-style swimsuit, sun hat and heels as she peruses the pages of Vogue.
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As we've seen, for every perfectly petty, overachieving Madeline Martha Mackenzie (Reese Witherspoon) there's an optimistic motormouth like Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan), both of whom were introduced last year.
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Maisel, Midge Maisel experiences a wave of life-changing moments all at once — including a major heartbreak — but still manages to find the confidence within her to start fresh.
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Now exposed as a liar to his wife, Joel bombs in front of Midge, their best couple friends, and an entire room of people who look like Allen Ginsberg.
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Finally, in between prattling on about expecting life would be "something more," Joel announces he's leaving Midge — oh, and he's been cheating on her with his secretary for months.
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She bails Lenny, whom the Maisels coincidentally went to see years ago, out of prison, and the funny people already have more chemistry than present-day Midge and Joel.
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Speaking of real-life comedians, Midge and Abe debate whether some pretty boy named Senator Kennedy or a fellow who goes by Richard Milhous Nixon should run for president.
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Speaking of politics, Midge happens upon a women's-mostly protest in Washington Square Park being held over the city's attempt to put a car lane into the scenic park.
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It seems Abe doesn't believe his daughter, since he shows up at B. Altman just to see Midge, who is actually spectacular at her job, working in the wild.
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Yet, that doesn't mean we should expect to see a reconciled Joel and Midge galavanting around Europe with their two kids come an already-promised Maisel season 3, either.
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The manager of the resort, Pauly (Saul Rubinek) informs Midge that due to her status as a not-quite-married woman, she can no longer compete in the Mrs.
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That's why he brings Midge to the opening night of Solomon Crespi, a seemingly fictional painter, after he already went to the pre-opening night and bought three paintings.
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Maisel's Season 3 teaser is here to haunt you for the next four months as Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) gears up to go on tour with Shy Baldwin (Leroy McClain).
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Emasculated, Joel continues to dig: He reveals to Midge that he's sleeping with his svelte secretary, Penny Pann, and worse, that they're in love, and he's packing his bags.
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Because Midge doesn't start out on a crusade, she almost smuggles progress into the world; like many women navigating midcentury lives, her success is mounted like an undercover operation.
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And they would do that, we had in our pilot, we had Midge and Joel's friends, the Clearys came down, it was very exotic for them to go downtown.
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During her set, Midge Maisel riffs on what makes a woman, poking fun at her drag queen props and the ideals that they would have to live up to.
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His survivors include his wife, Midge Bowen Bennet, whom he married in 1996; a brother, John; and three sisters, Phoebe Bennet Boyer, Lois Bennet Hager and Mary Bennet Rhodes.
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First, Mags (Nneka Okoye), fake camp counselor and real doctor/scientist, tells Mia and Alex she has been working on a formula to destroy Amber and bring back Midge.
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When season 2 left off, Midge had also betrayed her perfect-on-paper new fiancé, Jewish surgeon Benjamin (Zachary Levi), for a tryst with estranged husband Joel (Michael Zegen).
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It's much likelier that Graham will be playing an iconic '60s celebrity, or a character inspired by one (much like Rachel Brosnahan's Midge Maisel was largely inspired by Joan Rivers).
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Both Midge and Bruce were raised in New York by parents of Jewish upbringing, though Bruce was from Long Island and his mother, performer Sally Marr, encouraged his comedy dreams.
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We open the episode with Midge overseeing movers packing up her apartment with Joel, which is interspersed with flashbacks of the formerly happy couple's life in their Riverside Drive palace.
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It's so bad, Midge and her husband's respective, and married, best friends Imogene (Bailey De Young) and Archie Cleary (Joel Johnstone) won't even go see The Music Man with Joel.
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Randall's agent Lew Fogelman (Michael Nathanson) is there and he wants to market Midge and her new friend as an improv comedy duo like real-life pair Nichols and May.
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As Midge jokes about very specific details of her night with Joel, he is secretly hiding behind a pillar, drunk and jealously witnessing all the laughs his wife is getting.
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Midge tries to assuage Imogene's concerns by promising to go to exercise class with her the next day, but it's difficult to believe the secret comic will actually show up.
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Shirley hid another money bag in a never before seen loft-like space in the clothing factory, which Midge tracks down from one of her mother-in-law's cash maps.
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He is also probably too distracted by the horrible paste his wife Astrid (Succession's Justine Lupe) is using as a fertility treatment to care where Midge is going or why.
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It's difficult not to wonder if Midge is only so public with this budding romance since she saw Joel flirting with a younger version of herself in the Steiner clubhouse.
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Although Ben can't stop talking about Crespi, Midge — because she is our magical leading lady — wanders to a back room and finds a beautiful painting of a woman for $210.
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The first scene of the series to be filmed ― when Midge tells her parents that she and her husband, Joel (Michael Zegen), are separating ― was done as a single shot.
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When Midge enters show biz, her shtick, just like Rivers's was, is to dress for a date, in a black dress and pearls, then free-associate truths about women's lives.
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If Midge is modeled on anyone, it's Joan Rivers, who broke down boundaries as a brash, crass, unapologetic truth-teller about the degradations women face when they aspire to more.
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Midge herself, who Ms. Sherman-Palladino describes as "pure energy and pure light and such strength," which makes her sound like a lot of Ms. Sherman-Palladino's talky, resilient women.
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Midge and Susie were in town as the former opened for musician Shy Baldwin (Leroy McClain), whom she met at the end of last season while performing on a telethon.
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Whereas the air temperature in Antarctica routinely drops below -20 degrees Celsius, the temperature beneath the soil and snowpack, where midge larvae live, is just a few degrees below zero.
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It's fine if you've completely forgotten since it's been one whole year since we last caught up with Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) and the rest of the Maisel (nee Weissman) family.
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Midge is demoted at department store B. Altman and sent to the basement to work the switchboard for a while, before weaseling her way back up into the coat check.
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A drunk, despondent Midge stumbles on stage and grabs the microphone herself, and in a splendid ode to female empowerment, realizes that she's actually the one bearing some serious comedy chops.
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Unfortunately, instead of a standing ovation, this play ended in sheer horror: The Black Hood has returned to Riverdale, and, apparently, has finally made good on killing poor Midge (Emilija Baranac).
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A report in the Observatory column on Tuesday about the number and type of bugs found in a typical home misstated the size of a gall midge, a type of fly.
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That's why Reggie's journey toward eventual gunman begins in earnest when the Hood shoots Midge Klump (Emilija Baranac) and Moose Mason (Cody Kearsley) point blank during the pair's drug-induced hookup.
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There's also a racer-stripe, a design Kate called timeless, as well as a "Midge" style, which is named after her niece Rachel Brosnahan's beloved character on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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That is how Midge ends up trying to convince Susie she's not the woman she was last night, but, rather, the conventional housewife she was before she ever stepped onstage downtown.
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In fact, the only thing Midge needs from Joel is his money, which will change when she inevitably becomes the superstar we all know Amy Sherman-Palladino wants her to be.
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Although Midge is clearly bewildered by this run-in, at least it's good news for Rose, who is still seeing a psychic in hopes the fates will save her daughter's marriage.
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Rather, this is who Midge is and it doesn't matter who associates the UWS housewife with raunchy sex stories, feminist arguments, the ridiculousness of Penny Pan, and very, very good gowns.
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As Abe finds out in "Alone," his Bell inquisition began when Midge merely made a joke about her dad listening to a bathroom-related children's album as part of his work.
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According to StreetEasy, two of the building's units, 12N and 19593CD, would together have been comparable to the 7-room apartment Groom and his team created for Midge and her family.
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Susie is abducted by a pair of lackeys for Harry Drake, the comedy super force Midge upset last season by outing comedy cash cow Sophie Lennon (Jane Lynch) as a fraud.
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Midge is repeatedly pushed back for different male comedians until she finally goes on so late, she is covered in mustard and the guy in charge of the lights has left.
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The actress plays Miriam "Midge" Maisel, a New York City housewife, who launches her career in stand-up comedy after discovering her husband cheated on her, on the hit Amazon show.
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For starters, Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) is enjoying some success on the stand-up circuit, having landed a touring gig opening for a popular African-American singer, Shy Baldwin (Leroy McClain).
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So not only is it a mystery when Midge will have any cash flow coming in to pay for her pricey apartment, but her manager could be arrested for insurance fraud.
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And while Midge doesn't know it yet, her life — and the lives of her children, her family, and her country — is going to look different by the end of the decade.
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That messy fact brings us to the threat of Midge and Joel, a pair of people who publicly just got divorced and privately know they were recently remarried in Las Vegas.
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Mei is a future doctor with perfect restaurant ordering skills, great taste in music, and serious downtown political pull — she deserves better than suffering through Midge and Joel's never-ending mess.
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She tries to explain this to her would-be manager by doing an accidental mini-set, which Susie recognizes and starts taking notes down while Midge pretends she wasn't Made For This.
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While Midge is killing it at the Vanguard with deep-cut feminist comedy, Susie is uptown barging into the hallowed grounds of the comedy boys club that is the famed Friars Club.
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It's doubtful Midge cares which Babs-sang musical accompaniment is most appropriate, since she is now a single mother of two officially living with her parents, in her pink-drenched childhood bedroom.
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While it is great to see someone as charming as Midge succeed, it was becoming increasingly unbelievable, and a tad irritating, to never struggle with an industry as famously challenging as comedy.
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We enter the episode with Midge walking in on her parents in a very retro, awkward situation: The duo is pushing their usually separate twin beds back together following Abe's celebratory evening.
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The first signal we get arrives in "Look, She Made A Hat," when Midge sees the all-time great painting made by bad boy artiste Declan Howell (a rakishly disheveled Rufus Sewell).
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After eight episodes of suggesting Midge might be in a love triangle between her past love and future spouse, Marvelous reveals Benjamin never posed a threat to the Maisels' very complicated relationship.
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Even with Susie's protests against Midge leaving the NYC stand-up game the moment she's getting hot — an apt metaphor for Maisel's own tangents this season — Miriam heads to upstate New York.
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Midge discovers she has a knack for comedy, so she decides to trip it downtown to pursue a career as a stand-up comedian, practically unheard of for women in her day.
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Although Midge initially visits the Gaslight Cafe to watch her husband try his hand at stand-up, she later makes her own (drunken) debut at the venue, which was a real place.
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Further Reading Whether you want to dip into a novel that evokes Midge Maisel's New York City or pick up a sparkling history of 1950s comedy, we've got some recommendations for you.
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In the glitzy snapshot, housewife-turned-comedian Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Brosnahan, 29) and her manager Susie Myerson (Borstein, 48) are crouching down on the floor inside what appears to be a casino.
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Midge also tells Shy that her mother secretly loves his Christmas album, and Belafonte's Christmas album, To Wish You A Merry Christmas, came out in 1958, aka right before this conversation happened.
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I'm not here to argue her fitness as a mother; for all we know, Midge could be June Cleavering it up every second of her life that doesn't pertain to her career.
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The second season ended with Midge getting an offer from comedian Shy Baldwin to hit the road as his opening act, so we can expect some travel and misadventures in season three.
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Midge had given up her own artistic ambitions to get married and have children — to be the good wife and the good mother, like the doting women in the Jell-O ads.
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Standing up there in the spotlight, her inhibitions having followed her wayward husband out the door, Midge is working through a moment of clarity with a refreshing elasticity that also feels sharp.
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Gunshots ring out, drawing attention to Moose (Cody Kearsley) and Midge (Emilija Baranac), who were just attacked by the masked killer while doing Jingle Jangle (or "JJ" as they call it in Southside).
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Like any good hero, Midge turns down the journey... That is until she really hears what actual mediocre white men sound like onstage and immediately tells Susie it's time to get to work.
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The stand-up meets the very In singer Shy Baldwin (Leroy McClain) in the women's bathroom and he's instantly a fan because no one isn't a fan of Midge Maisel on this show.
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An extremely frazzled Abe and extremely hat-obsessed Midge, who knows no French much to her father's dismay, find Rose has successfully revived her pre-family life as a wine-swigging Parisian expat.
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With the tense set over, Rachel Brosnahan does some great work for her Emmy reel, tearfully breaking down as Susie celebrates the successful evening and the Concord manager begs to have Midge back.
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