The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel review: Rachel Brosnahan dazzles in Amazon series from Gilmore Girls creator
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and starring Rachel Brosnahan is the next show you need to watch on Amazon.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is going to be the next big thing for Amazon. After much turmoil on the streaming side of things for the e-commerce giant, Amazon has a certifiable hit on their hands with the series from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino about the ups and downs about the titular character played by Rachel Brosnahan.
This is a show written by a woman for a woman and while there are elements of female empowerment throughout, it’s not going to beat you over the head with it, so guys, don’t worry, this show is for you too.
The first thing that will hook viewers is the incredibly charismatic performance by Brosnahan, who viewers may recall as Rachel from House of Cards. While she was a supporting player in the Netflix series, she bursts out in this career-making role.
Viewers are introduced to the character at her wedding where she’s at the microphone and giving a toast to herself in effect. She’s got it all made. She’s a seemingly well-to-do young Jewish woman who found a husband, has children and the apartment on the Upper West Side of New York. The show is set in 1958 and the period drama is really amplified with Sherman-Palladino’s trademark writing style that made Gilmore Girls so addicting and so successful. The wordplay and dialogue and rapid-fire jokes make this show so delightful.
And it’s easy to fall in love with the character after her life deviates from the perfect little picture she had envisioned for herself. Her husband is a total doofus, but it’s how Miriam rebounds and the alternate route she finds on a stand-up comedy stage that serves as the new direction for the second act of her life.
It’s worth celebrating and that’s where the female empowerment angle comes into play. She didn’t need a husband to make her life complete. She needed something she never knew she was so passionate about or would be so successful at to make her happy. And that’s doing stand-up comedy where Susie, played by Alex Borstein, thinks she can be a stand-out in the time of Lenny Bruce.
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The first season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel will be streaming on Amazon Prime Video on Wednesday, Nov. 29. The show has already been renewed for a second season which will begin shooting in the spring with new episodes expected late in 2018.