How to Watch The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

How to watch The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is available only on Prime Video, with four seasons (34 one-hour episodes) currently streaming. If you’re already an Amazon Prime member or subscribe to Prime Video as a standalone streaming service, you can watch the entire series (but maybe not all at once—that’s a lot of dialogue to absorb).

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What is The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel?

Set in late-’50s New York City, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a Prime Video original comedy-drama that premiered in 2017. Over its three seasons, the series has won more than 50 awards, including several Emmys and Golden Globes. A delayed nine-episode fifth season is finally set to premiere on Friday, April 14, 2023, with three new episodes followed by weekly installments through May 26.

The story: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s title character, Miriam “Midge” Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan), is a content Manhattan housewife with no career aspirations. After learning her failed comedian husband has had an affair, she angrily downs a few too many drinks and performs an impromptu stand-up set of her own at a local comedy club to spite him.

But then Midge’s drunken rage becomes a revelation: Her confessional, if raw, style goes over big with the crowd, inspiring her to become a comedian herself—a bold and difficult move for a woman in the 1950s, and her family will not be on board with it (when they find out, that is).

Thanks to series creator/writer Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a fizzy, fast-paced comedy full of rapid-fire dialogue, appealing characters, and knockout period set design and costuming (Midge has more outfits than could realistically fit in a Manhattan apartment). But the show doesn’t shy away from heavy dramatic moments and commentary on 1950s classism, sexism, and racism.

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Final take: Catch up with Mrs. Maisel

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is one of Prime Video’s most popular and instantly identifiable original series, and with good reason: it’s a quick-tongued, colorful blast of 1950s nostalgia that reflects many cultural issues modern America still faces, and Rachel Brosnahan is a comedic/dramatic force of nature.

But that’s not to sleep on the supporting cast: Alex Borstein, Tony Shalhoub, Marin Hinkle, Kevin Pollack, and Jane Lynch round out a fantastic ensemble, and they have the shelves of awards to prove it. Even the series’s “real-life” period-specific character, controversial comic Lenny Bruce (played by Luke Kirby), comes off as a genuine person rather than a historical gimmick.

Despite its funny, glossy trappings, though, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel probably isn’t for the whole family. Explicit language and nudity (after giving her first stand-up audience an eyeful, Midge is arrested for indecent exposure) are sprinkled throughout the show, which would earn it TV-MA status if it were rated (it’s not).

CableTV.com’s take: We’d highly recommend streaming The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s four current seasons before the fifth premieres on April 14, 2023—set up a TV tray and get to it.

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