Season Two of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Premieres: Nostalgia in Pink

Spoiler alert: At Season Two’s start of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Mrs. Maisel’s marriage is still in turmoil. Everyone glued to this thoroughly entertaining Amazon Prime series is familiar with the domestic impasse, a source of angst for the couple, and humor for everyone else. Why can’t two people deeply in love be together?

As episode 1 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel opens, our heroine, the divine Rachel Brosnahan, forced to take odd jobs, answers phones at one of those switchboards, moving about on a swivel chair. Think Judy Holliday in Bells Are Ringing. And then she is summoned home. Before you can say Ooh La La, our Midge is in Paris with her dad, the amazing Tony Shaloub, for some perfectly pitched father-daughter banter, and neither one knows French. Ever resourceful, Midge manages to do her act even there, finding an expat New Yorker at a drag show to translate her weepy story of failed marriage. Get ready to sob in hysteria.

Oui, oui. Paris was really Paris, as we learned at the swank premiere this week at the Paris Theater followed by a lavish dinner at the Rainbow Room, adorned in millions of pink roses, where the champagne washed down oysters and beef Wellington against spectacular city views for a quintessential New York night.

Oh what a difference a year makes! Season One was feted downtown when no one knew this comedy would be such a hit! Catching up with Midge’s husband Joel (Michael Zegen), I assured him they would get back together, and he smiled, looked heavenward, and said, if only.

Regina Weinreich

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