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September 13 • 2018

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elling the story of a 1950s
Jewish housewife who
becomes a standup comic,
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel instantly
became a fan favorite and a critical
darling, earning Golden Globe, Critics
Choice, Peabody and PGA awards and
14 Emmy nominations in its first sea-
son on Amazon.
Season 2 won’t premiere for several
months, but the cast and creators
convened at the Television Critics
Association press tour, where creators
Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan
Palladino and the cast talked about
the show’s success and what’s ahead
in a Q&A session.
Sherman-Palladino admitted that
the pressure was on to keep the bar
high.
“When you have a group of actors
of this caliber, that means that the sto-
ries and the scripts and dialogue have
to be of a certain caliber, otherwise
we’re not doing them service,” she
said. “The pressure is always going to
be higher and higher and higher.”
Star Rachel Brosnahan gave a brief
hint about her character. “At the end
of Season 1, we left Midge in a pretty
triumphant moment. She’s finally
arrived into Mrs. Maisel, the standup
comedienne,” she said. “I can’t say a
whole lot about where she’ll head in
Season 2, but good things can’t last
long.”
Although Midge is estranged from
her husband, Joel, “You’ll definitely
see a lot of their attempts to co-parent
because the truth about their relation-
ship is they will never be able to be
without one another in some capacity,
and it creates a wonderful, dramatic
tension,” Brosnahan said. “We get to

explore a lot of the depths of their love
and all of its different capacities this
season. It’s complicated, and it always
will be.”
Daniel Palladino said they’d
received “a lot of really excited, posi-
tive feedback from the Jewish com-
munity from the very, very beginning.
There are some inaccuracies, but
when they call us out on them, they
do it out of love and trying to help us.”
Sherman-Palladino elaborated later,
telling the Journal, “It’s tricky because
the religion has changed a lot in terms
of how ceremonies are done. We
get things like, ‘The prayer went like
this” or ‘There wouldn’t be a call and
response’ — real minutiae — and they
take it very seriously. Because we want
to be true to who [the Maisels] are, we
listen as much as we can.”
Jewish perspectives, elements and
the link between Jews and comedy
would continue to be the founda-
tion of the show, she confirmed. “The
thing about this family I wanted to
make sure about is they are Jews, and
Jews at the time were really shaping
American humor. I feel that the hand
of Jewish experience and cadence
formed comedy, and you can’t
approach a story like this without that
element,” she said.
As for the Emmy recognition, “I was
so glad that so many of our wonderful
people got noticed because every-
body works so hard on this show,”
Sherman-Palladino said. “It’s a run-
away train and if one piece falls down,
the whole thing collapses in on itself.
It’s a lot of people working at the top
of their game and being completely
committed to us, so hearing their
names was incredible.” •

