Susie reluctantly joins her but spends the short time she’s there indulging in the party’s fancy-free food and leaves without saying goodbye. Altman to apologize to Midge, who invites her to the next “gig” she plans to schmooze. After her hilarity (and public nudity) gets her thrown in the back of a cop car alongside legendary comedian Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby), Susie, who sees what Midge could accomplish as a professional, bails her out, and the two agree to work together on Midge’s new life as a comedienne. Shocked, chided by her parents who live downstairs (Marin Hinkle, Tony Shalhoub), and drunk off the Yom Kippur Manischewitz, Midge heads downtown to the Gaslight, where she stumbles onto the stage and delivers a totally improvised, totally bad-ass set of her own. Joel packs his, well, Midge’s, suitcase and abandons his marriage, blaming Midge for not supporting his dream and admitting he’s sleeping with his dullard secretary, Penny (Holly Curran). After calling Joel out for ripping off a Bob Newhart act, Midge and her uptown friends watch Joel bomb on stage at the Gaslight, and it spirals from there. Myerson rolls her eyes at Joel’s entirely unoriginal set and doting housewife, who, always observing and analyzing, notices.īack at home, we begin to understand the ridiculously high standard Midge pursues to keep up appearances: she waits until Joel’s asleep to take off her makeup and records her measurements daily, but her picture-perfect life soon starts to implode.
#THE MARVELOUS MRS MASISEL SEASON 2 EPISODE 10 SERIES#
Happily a homemaker, Midge supports her husband’s side hustle as a stand-up comedian at a beatnik open mic café called the Gaslight, where we first meet Gaslight emcee Susie Myerson (an endearingly gruff Alex Borstein, whose first line of the series is, notably, “F-–!” I wanted to applaud when she first swaggered into view). In the next scene, we jump to Midge’s life four years later in 1958, comfortably settled on the Upper West Side with Joel, now an executive at a generic firm, and two cute albeit peripheral children. From the first scene, in which Midge gives a toast at her own wedding to declare her luck and love for her new husband, Joel (Michael Zegen), she’s confident, witty, porcelain doll-gorgeous, unapologetically Jewish, and has an innate sense of comedic timing (foreshadowing!). From the first moments of Maisel’s pilot, we get a sense of our protagonist - Miriam “Midge” Maisel, played by a radiant Rachel Brosnahan ( House of Cards) - and her demeanor.
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