Midge Maisel puts down the Pyrex and picks up a mic. For the first season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” they wrote and directed seven of the eight episodes. PhotoTo play Midge, Ms. Brosnahan consulted a stack of vintage Good Housekeeping magazines, clipping articles about wifely deportment. She also studied the routines of the pioneering comic Jean Carroll, “this beautiful, graceful woman who wore pearls and gorgeous dresses and sang a little,” Ms. Brosnahan said. Midge, Ms. Sherman-Palladino said proudly, has found “a much bigger audience to mouth off at.”

Source: New York Times November 21, 2017 09:56 UTC