The Marvelous Mrs Maisel shows no sign of slowing down. I mean that literally. Four seasons in, Rachel Brosnahan’s Midge Maisel still speaks at the speed of a bullet train, firing out jibes and diatribes without pausing for breath. Only now, she’s angry.
In the first season of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s relentlessly quippy, Emmy-winning comedy drama, Midge Maisel was a Fifties New York housewife and mother, who discovered a talent for stand-up after her husband Joel (Michael Zegen) left her. Her star ascended, with the help of her plucky manager Susie (Alex Borstein), and then at the end of season three it crashed down to Earth with a bang. On stage at the Apollo, supporting secretly gay singer Shy Baldwin in front of her biggest-ever crowd, Midge made thinly veiled allusions to Shy’s sexuality – references to closets, The Wizard of Oz and make-up. She was dropped from his tour, left reeling on the airport tarmac.
