Hell yeah. There's something so interesting about how this season wraps up, how it seems to inject a bit of chaos. I like knowing there's a good sense of where these characters are in relationship to where they were, but it's also nice to have a bit of a question as to what happens next. Although to be frank, I'm surprised I'm even typing this. I'm usually not a big fan of endings that leave the door open so heavily--particularly not on an opening season when during production there probably wasn't a guarantee of a second season. But I guess I like it here because what this season brought to the table was so confident. This is one of the stronger opening seasons I've seen in awhile. And yeah, there are a couple of stumbles along the way. Some of the filmmaking feels like it lends itself to melodrama. There are shots that linger on characters while they "make decisions" in a way I found a bit on the nose in the length of time they lingered, or even the freeze frame the season goes out on felt a little cheesy. But that's all very nit-picky and shallow. Obviously none of those moments ruined anything for me and, really, who am I to point out filmmaking fault in something I binged so quickly. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is like lightning in a bottle, a stellar piece of period formalism with a feminist strike more refreshing and authentic than anything else I've seen this side of Booksmart.
Review by filmboicoleBlockedParentSpoilers2021-04-10T17:06:07Z
Hell yeah. There's something so interesting about how this season wraps up, how it seems to inject a bit of chaos. I like knowing there's a good sense of where these characters are in relationship to where they were, but it's also nice to have a bit of a question as to what happens next. Although to be frank, I'm surprised I'm even typing this. I'm usually not a big fan of endings that leave the door open so heavily--particularly not on an opening season when during production there probably wasn't a guarantee of a second season. But I guess I like it here because what this season brought to the table was so confident. This is one of the stronger opening seasons I've seen in awhile. And yeah, there are a couple of stumbles along the way. Some of the filmmaking feels like it lends itself to melodrama. There are shots that linger on characters while they "make decisions" in a way I found a bit on the nose in the length of time they lingered, or even the freeze frame the season goes out on felt a little cheesy. But that's all very nit-picky and shallow. Obviously none of those moments ruined anything for me and, really, who am I to point out filmmaking fault in something I binged so quickly. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is like lightning in a bottle, a stellar piece of period formalism with a feminist strike more refreshing and authentic than anything else I've seen this side of Booksmart.