Miriam “Midge” Maisel does not tread lightly in life. She stomps in three-inch heels. Can we blame her? Her husband leaves her for another woman. She lives with her two young children in her parents’ apartment and doesn’t have a stable income. But the formidable andhas let nothing stop her from barreling through comedy clubs… and the lives of others.
This quality truly rears its nasty head for Midge in the show’s fifth and final season. Each episode begins with a time jump to the future, with two of the most poignant flash-forwards coming from Midge’s children, Esther and Ethan, as young adults. Both are detached from their mother, blatantly bitter with how she was selfishly absent for most of their adolescence, and how she has used their lives for comedy.
Meanwhile, Susie and Midge find it all the more difficult to rise above gender norms with their tactlessness, as women have traditionally been expected to be gentle and soft-spoken to be listened to at all. Most female viewers can likely relate to dulling parts of their personalities in order to be taken seriously, and so it is gratifying to watch Midge and Susie unabashedly be themselves. Those of us with short tempers can live vicariously through them.
Despite her flaws, Midge has shown growth over the course of the show—albeit often in ways that ultimately serve to only benefit her. The one thing Midge hasn’t yet completely run off the rails this season is her new job as a joke writer at the Gordon Ford Show, where she is the only woman, which courts prejudice from the male writers who think her jokes aren’t good enough for the show.
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