Tony Shalhoub plays buttoned-up exceptionally well—his repressed, depressed Adrian Monk is the most memorable character to emerge from a network devoted to them. But the Emmy-winning actor also spent much of Monk’s eight seasons hinting at the vibrancy buried beneath all the mannerisms and immaculate (if a bit drab)…

Emmys voting is currently underway, which means that a ripe crop of fantasy Emmys ballots and “who will win/who should win” speculation is on its way. Fueling those predictions will be today’s nominations for the TCA Awards, the annual honors bestowed by members of the Television Critics Association (like our own Erik…

After some gentle prodding from series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino—who addressed Amazon executives while accepting a Peabody award for the show last night, saying, “You’re going to give [another season] to us because we’re bringing home the fancy thing, right?”—Amazon Studios has confirmed that The Marvelous Mrs.…

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After Seth Meyers’ Spacey-slamming and Spielberg-embarrassing monologue, the Golden Globes ceremony immediately kicked off with the actual awards, wasting no time with the elaborate gags and gimmicks of the Oscars or Emmys.

It’s a New Year, and with it comes the opportunity for a fresh start—to take a hard and unflinching look at the areas in our lives that could stand to be improved, then to immediately give up on that and start thinking about how pop culture can better distract us from our problems. In what has become an annual…

The season finale of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is filled to the brim with plot twists, some of which had me shouting at the screen!

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, December 13. All times are Eastern.

 Episode 7 starts with Midge learning how to hone a good comedy routine the hard way: through trial, error, and practice. Though she blasted onto the scene with her talent for improv, her experience bombing taught her that while she can base her comedy on the daily ins and outs of her life, her professional act needs…

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In The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel femininity is powerful, as well as seductive. It’s thrilling to watch a show tackle sexism smartly, while also allowing its female characters to flourish, rather than merely endure the sexism of the times, and it’s equally thrilling to watch Midge walk through the world with joy and…

The opening to “The Disappointment of the Dionne Quintuplets” is absolutely breathtaking, with shots of Midge moving out of her and Joel’s apartment, layered with many of Midge’s happy memories of marriage: we see her and Joel eating Chinese take-out on the floor of an empty apartment, welcoming in their first born,…

Episode 3 starts with a shot of young blonde college Midge at a party where she and Joel flirt while she is supposed to be on a date with the handsome blonde jock, Palmer Witherspoon. Joel makes a couple of WASP jokes and Midge giggles:

“In The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Amy Sherman-Palladino moves past her insular small-town frames; those previous efforts are like the summer stock set pieces to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Broadway run. The new show is on a much larger scale—New York—and its protagonist Midge Maisel’s simple at-first-glance story quickly…

The pilot of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel starts with a delightfully offbeat wedding toast and ends with Midge Maisel bailing Lenny Bruce out of jail after performing a scandalous comedy routine that led her to a similar fate.

Note: This review originally ran on March 17, 2017, when The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel premiered as part of Amazon’s spring pilot season. Recaps of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s remaining first-season episodes will begin posting Friday, December 1.

Amy Sherman-Palladino’s TV creations have always evoked a romantically vintage feel, like the beloved cozy world of Gilmore Girls’ Stars Hollow or the idyllic California dance setting of Bunheads. In her new Amazon series, Sherman-Palladino embraces nostalgia wholeheartedly, diving into a rose-colored mid-century…

Netflix may have given Amy Sherman-Palladino her Gilmore Girls revival, but she has a new home at Amazon. The latter streaming service picked up not one but two seasons of the creator’s latest series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, it announced Monday. The show transports Sherman-Palladino’s knack for zingers to the 1950s…