{"id":46353,"date":"2018-12-07T17:21:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T23:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=46353"},"modified":"2018-12-07T17:21:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T23:21:52","slug":"marvelous-mrs-maisel-debuts-on-amazon-to-glowing-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/marvelous-mrs-maisel-debuts-on-amazon-to-glowing-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Marvelous Mrs. Maisel&#8217; debuts on Amazon to glowing reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By LIOR ZALTZMAN<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 The second season of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2017\/03\/17\/life-religion\/gilmore-girls-creator-makes-a-very-jewy-tv-pilot\">The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel<\/a>,\u201d a show about a young&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2018\/01\/05\/arts-entertainment\/the-3-most-jewish-tv-shows-nominated-for-golden-globes\">Jewish housewife<\/a>&nbsp;turned aspiring comedian that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2018\/09\/18\/news-opinion\/the-telegraph\/marvelous-mrs-maisel-sweeps-emmy-awards\">won eight Emmy Awards in the fall<\/a>, premiered Wednesday on Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46354\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mrsmaisel.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46354\" class=\"wp-image-46354 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mrsmaisel-300x198.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mrsmaisel-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mrsmaisel-768x506.png 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mrsmaisel.png 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46354\" class=\"wp-image-46354 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mrsmaisel-300x198.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mrsmaisel-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mrsmaisel-768x506.png 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mrsmaisel.png 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-46354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Brosnahan plays Midge Maisel in the Emmy-winning show \u201cThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.\u201d (Amazon Prime)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Early&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/12\/05\/673056710\/the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-season-2-still-marvelous-even-smarter\">reviews<\/a>, which point to how the show continues to explore&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/how-marvelous-mrs-maisel-season-2-explores-sexism-comedy-1166479\">sexism<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/993459\/why-the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-season-2-is-joyous-and-timelier-than-ever\">female empowerment<\/a>, have been pretty marvelous, too.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Brosnahan stars as Miriam \u201cMidge\u201d Maisel, who lives on New York City\u2019s very Jewish Upper West Side in the 1950s. Created by \u201cGilmore Girls\u201d showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino, and inspired by her Jewish comedian father, the show features jokes about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heyalma.com\/the-10-best-jewish-jokes-in-the-marvelous-mrs-maisel\/\">brisket, dreidels<\/a>&nbsp;and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heyalma.com\/the-10-best-jewish-jokes-in-the-marvelous-mrs-maisel\/\">&nbsp;mezuzahs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second season, which starts with the show\u2019s stars on a detour in Paris,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kveller.com\/the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-season-2-starts-with-this-iconic-barbra-streisand-song\/\">opens with a Barbra Streisand tune<\/a>. It also features a Yom Kippur service and a visit to the Borscht Belt Catskills, among other delightfully Jewish moments.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the entire first and second season on Amazon Prime. If you binge it all in one go, there\u2019s no need to be blue:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2018\/05\/23\/life-religion\/marvelous-mrs-maisel-renewed-third-season-second-season-premieres\">The show has already been renewed for a third season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"%27Marvelous%20Mrs.%20Maisel%27%20debuts%20on%20Amazon%20to%20glowing%20reviews\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[9133,3826,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46355,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46353\/revisions\/46355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}