The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel collected five awards along with Best Series in the comedy field. It got awards in Best Script and Best Director (Amy Sherman-Palladino), Best Actress (Rachel Brosnahan), and Best Supporting Actress Alex Borstein).
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel streaming on Amazon got awards in Best Comedy Musical or Comedy Series and Best Actress in 75th Golden Globe last year.
In the series, leading Rachel Brosnahan, there are also actors like Tony Shalhoub, Alex Borstein, Michael Zegen, Marin Hinkle, and Zachary Levi.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel takes place in the 1950s in the Upper West Side of New York. The plot is about Miriam “Midge” Maisel’s story. She is living with her two children from her wonderful marriage. However, Midge has an incredible talent for comedy, and when she discovers it her life changes and she starts stand-up comedy.
The first episode of the series was released on March 17, 2017.
The series which was broadcasted between 2000-2007, was created by Amy Sherman-Palladino whom we know from Gilmore Girls.
Sherman-Palladino is known for casting her favorite actors repeatedly. For example, Alex Bornstein who is playing Susie Meyerson in Maisel also portrayed two different characters in Gilmore Girls. And now another actress from Gilmore Girls, Kelly Bishop, will play a resident in the 1950’s Upper West Side.
The critics about The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel don’t have a feminist approach is generally about the idea of her rebellion against the things that are going wrong in her life because she is a woman and her reason to object is not due to a systematical idea. She opposes them because they are wrong in her life. In fact, during my research I’ve read that following your dreams doesn’t make you an idol in feminism, to become a feminist idol you have to fight actively. There weren’t any thoughts I agreed on. Yes, we cannot say Midge is a feminist idol but the reason for that is that it would be unfair to the other feminist idols. Because even today, even though we have our privileges, I think we still have to fight actively to reach our dreams. Each culture, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic and sociocultural status has its own hardships and we all experience them in different ways throughout our lives. Of course, women of a different race, ethnicity, and social orientation experience it more severely. So my only criticism on this subject is that it is not inclusive about them.
