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'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Season 2: Everything We Know So Far


If you’ve been awaiting the return of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel ever since you finished binging season one, then the wait is almost over. The Amazon Prime series about Midge Maisel, a Jewish housewife in 1958 who discovers she has a knack for stand-up comedy after her husband leaves her, will return later this winter. “Season two is big,” co-creator and executive producer Amy Sherman-Palladino said at the Television Critics Association summer press tour on Saturday. “We have all of the pieces to go big or go home, and we don’t go home. [In fact, we work so much] we haven’t been home in two years.”

The series—which was just nominated for 14 Emmy Awards, including Best Comedy and Best Actress for Rachel Brosnahan—is already a favorite of critics and fans, taking home the Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy Series as well as Best Actress for Brosnahan earlier this year. At the end of season one, Midge and her estranged husband Joel were in a good place, but that’s all about to change now that Joel discovered Midge has been performing stand-up comedy—his passion—and is actually quite good at it. “Eventually everybody is going to find out [about Midge’s new career ambitions],” co-creator and executive producer Daniel Palladino tells Glamour. “The trickiness of hiding that lifestyle is very, very hard to hide.”

So what else can you expect in season two? With only a few more months to go, here’s everything we know.

Season two will premiere later this year, hopefully in time for the holiday season. The show was originally picked up for 18 episodes, and eight aired as part of season one. Co-creator and executive producer Daniel Palladino confirmed to Glamour that season two will consist of 10 episodes. No official premiere date has been announced, but let’s just say that homemade latkes aren’t the only thing you’ll have to look forward to this Hanukkah.

There will be a bit of a time jump. “We do kind of jump ahead,” Daniel Palladino reveals. “We shifted some time and [just like in season one], we will jump back and forth, and we’re going to continue to do that in every season.” As for where the show picks up, Palladino won’t say much. But we do have a hint: “Midge will find out that Joel was at the club [for her stand-up act] and we’re going to deal with those ramifications,” she says.

Midge has a new job at the department store. In an exclusive clip shown to journalists at the Television Critics Assocation summer press tour, Midge has been demoted to the basement switchboard at B. Altman & Co. after her encounter with Penny on the main floor (you remember—when Penny called Midge a tramp for sleeping with her estranged husband). Midge’s new co-workers are enthralled by Midge’s can-do personality and ability to juggle 10 things at once. They also want to know more about her time working at the makeup counter, and she promises to tell them everything.

There’s trouble ahead for Midge. “We left Midge in a pretty triumphant moment [at the end of season one]. She’s finally arrived into Mrs. Maisel the stand-up comedian,” says Brosnahan. “I can’t say a whole lot about where she’s headed in season 2, but good things can’t last long.”

Susie Myerson finds her true love. “Joel and I end up having a torrid affair,” Alex Borstein (Myerson) jokes. “I’m sorry, that’s my fantasy. No, Susie is changing this season. She’s finally found the great love of her life, which is Midge, and I mean that in a larger sense. [Managing someone of her caliber] is her passion.”

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Joel’s not going anywhere. Just because Joel and Midge split in season one, don’t expect the actor that plays Joel—Michael Zegen—to go anywhere. He has plenty of story next season, and you’ll see him try to co-parent with Midge. “He’s stuck between a rock and a hard place,” Zegen says. “He loves Midge and he saw that she’s really talented [at comedy], but on the other hand, it’s a huge blow to his ego that she’s this talented.” Still, Zegen says, there’s a lot of love between Midge and Joel, even though he slept with another woman and treated her horribly. “[We meet him] at a very terrible time in his life, but he still loves Midge.” Adds Broshanan: “They will never be able to be without one another. It creates a wonderful, dramatic tension and you get to explore the depths of their love in a lot of different capacities.”

Rose and Abe will face new challenges in their marriage. “Abe is this sort of old-fashioned man in 1959 who would have been very content for absolutely nothing to change,” Palladino says. “However, we’ve seen Rose searching and going to fortune tellers [hoping to expand her horizons]. There are cracks in her facade, and those cracks are just going to get bigger and bigger.”

Zachary Levi is joining the cast in a recurring role. Levi will recur as an eclectic Manhattan doctor who suddenly starts spending a lot of time with the Maisels and Weissmans, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Bonjour, Paris! When filming for season two began in March, some of the cast traveled to the City of Lights for various scenes. Brosnahan told Glamour that they filmed in “the most extraordinary locations” and had “the most beautiful sets.” While she remains tight-lipped on what brings Midge to Paris, Brosnahan says the only spoiler she can give is that a dog is involved in their overseas trip. “It was the best,” she smiles.

The show will give off some serious Dirty Dancing vibes. In June of 2018, Broshanan and Zegen posted various Instagram shots from upstate New York, which led to speculation that the show travels to a Catskills-esque location, a la Dirty Dancing. “A big part of the series is following the lifestyles of a Jewish family in the late ‘50s,” Daniel Palladino tells us. “That includes things like the Upper West Side, temple and vacations and stuff. Over the seasons we’re going to see the family’s whole world, and we film all over the place. There’s nothing you can derive from exactly where we film, but it could be camp, who knows?”

The series has already been renewed for a third season. Earlier this spring, Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke announced the good news at the Peabody Awards. With season two set to premiere this winter, look for season three to arrive sometime in late 2019 or early 2020.

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Lauren Graham May Be Getting a Role in 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'


Lauren Graham and Amy Sherman-Palladino have a bond that spans from Stars Hollow to New York City and beyond. Case in point: Sherman-Palladino, who created and executive produced Gilmore Girls, recently said in an interview that Lorelai Gilmore would like to be involved in her latest project, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

“I gotta get my girl Lauren on the show,” Sherman-Palladino told The Hollywood Reporter. “I want to have her on it.” And you don’t spend seven seasons plus a revival as Sherman-Palladino’s star actor and BFF without picking up some writing and directing tips; Graham reportedly has some ideas when it comes to her part. “Lauren wants to be something very specific,” Sherman-Palladino said. “She has it all figured out.”

The first season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, currently streaming on Amazon, stars Rachel Brosnahan as the title character, Miriam “Midge” Maisel, a 1950s Jewish housewife whose life is uprooted when her husband leaves her for his secretary. She becomes a stand-up comedian, which sounds like exactly the type of person that the fast-taking, coffee-drinking single mom Lorelai would get along with. The second season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, set to begin filming in March 2018, will find Brosnahan and Alex Borstein (who plays Midge’s manager, Susie, and had her share of cameos on Gilmore Girls back in the day) embarking on a traveling comedy show.

And it seems Mrs. Maisel is just as big of a fan of Graham. Brosnahan revealed that she reached out to Graham before production of season one began to get advice on how exactly to master Sherman-Palladino’s signature dialogue-heavy style. In response, Graham said, “You’re an incredible actor, @RachieBros. Funny and luminous. You don’t need my advice.” Let’s get these three together already and start production!

Related: Lauren Graham’s Reaction to Alexis Bledel’s Emmy Win Will Give ‘Gilmore Girls’ Fans All the Feels





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'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Is Set in the 1950s, but It's Harshly Relevant to 2017


There’s a moment in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel—Amazon’s delightful new comedy from the creators of Gilmore Girls—where the main character, Miriam “Midge” Maisel, is stuck in front of a judge who’s threatening to hold her in contempt for disrespecting him in court. Faced with having to choose between staying behind bars and not being able to pick up her son from the babysitter, she succumbs to the man in power. “My behavior earlier today was irrational, irresponsible, and extremely disrespectful. I let my emotions get the better of me,” she says. “After all, I am a woman.”

Though the scene takes place in a mid-century courtroom, it still feels harshly relevant. It’s not a one-off moment, either: Throughout the eight-episode first season, about a 1950s Jewish housewife whose life is uprooted when her husband leaves her for his secretary, Midge is constantly confronting (male-driven) societal norms. And while at first glance, Midge’s character might come off as a stereotype—she doesn’t remove her makeup until her husband falls asleep, sneakily waking up to apply it before he gets up, and measures every part of her body to track her thinness—in reality she’s anything but. When her husband flies the coop, Midge (played to perfection by Rachel Brosnahan) takes matters into her own hands. She pursues her stand-up comedy career. She gets a job despite her mother’s aversion to women working and her father’s disbelief that she knows how to set up a bank account for her paychecks. She even finds a talent manager in Susie, played by Alex Borstein, who defiantly wears a newsboy cap, pantsuits, and suspenders. Susie, too, wants to forge her own path, and the two work hard together as a female duo in a man’s world.

Whenever there’s a chance for Midge to push back on the norms of the ’50s, she pushes—and hard. Midge may apologize to the judge for “being a woman,” but it’s so obviously a tactic to get out of her situation. She is, in fact, entirely unapologetic for who she is. Midge doesn’t think that being a woman makes her volatile in a bad way. No, it’s what makes her excellent—something we see in her stand-up sets. Her comedy persona falls in line with that of Joan Rivers, who, like Midge, started out performing at The Gaslight Café in New York’s Greenwich Village. Rivers’ early comedy didn’t follow a rule book and introduced the world to something unfamiliar: a defiant, funny, confident woman doesn’t need a man to be valuable or successful. And like Rivers, these traits carry over off the stage for Midge too. Rather than falling into a sad soon-to-be divorcee role, she focuses on reorganizing her life to fit her current circumstances. Be it 1958 or 2017, Midge is a modern woman—the kind of heroine we want to root for in an era when politicians (including our President) and Hollywood executives are trying to silence the force of the female.

In fact, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel feels so timely that it brings to mind another brilliant Amazon show about women who refuse to play along: Good Girls Revolt. The series, which featured a ridiculously relevant story of female journalists fighting for equality at Newsweek in 1969, was canceled last year despite receiving positive buzz and good ratings. The fact that it was axed just weeks after Hillary Clinton’s election defeat made the decision seem even more pointed. And while we still hold out hope that Good Girls Revolt will return in some form, Mrs. Maisel at least softens the blow. After all, the shows share similar DNA: They’re both smart television series about bold women from a bygone era that isn’t so different from today. (That’s not the only thing they have in common: Fans of both shows will recognize Erin Darke, who plays a friend of Midge’s and also starred as Cindy, a reporter and sexually frustrated wife on Good Girls.)

Like Good Girls, Mrs. Maisel shows us the inception of the fight against the patriarchy—even if Midge isn’t fully aware she’s leading the charge. But interwoven with these revolutionary moments, Mrs. Maisel offers something else we all want (and, honestly, need) from shows today: charming escapism. There’s creator Amy Sherman-Palladino’s signature fast-talking a la Lorelai Gilmore, not to mention the cheekiness of a very specific type of humor that makes what could be a sad plot about a woman whose life is upended by her husband’s indiscretions a very funny and inspiring one. And, of course, classic music, gorgeous fashion, perfectly applied lipstick, and a candy-coated New York City social scene of martinis and fancy dinners to look forward to.

That blend of rebellion and sophistication is what makes Midge Maisel the kind of leading lady that TV needs right now. Though the show isn’t inherently political, it fits right in with the atmosphere that’s been simmering since the 2016 election. Midge’s fight against the patriarchy might take place in the ’50s comedy scene, but you could just as easily drop her in the 1969 Newsweek offices. Or at the 2017 Women’s March, for that matter. Midge is relevant because she reminds us to speak out, to keep pushing for what you want and, most importantly, for what you deserve—even if it’s not “the norm.” And if you want to do it all in a high-waisted flare skirt with a drink and a laugh, well, you do you.



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