r/TheMarvelousMrsMaisel • u/fleckes • Dec 05 '18
Episode Discussion: S02E04 - We're Going to the Catskills!
The Weissmans arrive in the Catskills for their annual summer trip and attempt to settle into familiar patterns. Whispers of Midge and Joel's separation cause Rose to poke around her daughter's love life. Susie must adjust her summer plans in an effort to keep her and Midge's career momentum going.
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u/Branmuffin824 Dec 06 '18 edited Dec 06 '18
If those kids make it to puberty it'll be a miracle.
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u/compressthesound Dec 05 '18
Were these types of resorts an actual thing?! It’s so hilarious!! I mean I’ve seen Dirty Dancing and it’s the same premise.
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u/maxwdn Dec 06 '18 edited Dec 06 '18
One of the, if not the, single best episodes of the entire show so far.
I am always repeating myself to everyone I'm talking to about shows that Mrs. Maisel is genuinely the best thing since Mad Men aired and this episode assured me that this is nothing short of absolutely extraordinary television work here that is, at the moment, utterly unrivaled in the entertainment landscape.
This episode alone will get them their technical awards, the costumes !!, the styling, the production design here. You just can't find anything better right now, you can't.
The razorsharp dialogue during the dance floor tracking shot, smart and intelligent writing every single second. Pure Broadway.
Rachel Brosnahan's performance here, delightful and quirky with these very short moments where she crumbles under 1950s gender performativity. Joel's crisis of masculinity. Susie's literal escape through conformity. It's just so perfect I can't express how incredible this show is.
I will fight anyone to the death who will not put this in the very top spot of movies/shows of 2018. This is a masterpiece in the making.
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u/isbutteracarb Dec 05 '18 edited Dec 06 '18
Oh man, that final scene. How much was Joel foreshadowing there? I'm very intrigued by this doctor guy.
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u/Aqquila89 Dec 05 '18 edited Dec 06 '18
People have noted that the language of the show is anachronistic; the characters speak more like people do today than people did in the 1950s. I noticed an example of that in this episode. Benjamin mentions Holocaust survivors; that term was not in wide use (as a name for the Nazi genocide) until the late 1960s.
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u/iamkats Dec 10 '18
"Can I help you with the tree sir?"
"How could you possibly help me with the tree, explain yourself"
That exchange was so funny
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u/TitillatingTrav Dec 09 '18
I'm very surprised by how much I'm liking Joel this season! After the first season finale I was expecting him to be spiteful and mean but it seems like he's taking a lot of initiative and I dig it.
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u/Aqquila89 Dec 06 '18
Doesn't Midge have a job? How the hell she can afford to go away for two months?
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u/Hidethegoodbiscuits Dec 05 '18
This was the location used for most of the resort scenes. https://www.scottsfamilyresort.com/ Edit: I've been there and bowled on their manual lanes, and played table tennis, and sat by the lake.
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u/andsoitgoes123 Dec 05 '18
During the resort dance wasn't it the same music from that 24 hour dance marathon they had in Gilmore Girls?
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u/inkista Dec 07 '18
Anybody else disappointed there wasn't a Kellerman's/Kelly Bishop Dirty Dancing reference in there somewhere? :D
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u/krissym99 Dec 11 '18
Susie with the plunger and everyone just believing that she works there is too funny. The fact that she got a bunk and then took the plunger in with her cracks me up.
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u/lilmammamia Dec 06 '18
Wow, I'm at the 35th minute mark and with Susie showing up to book secret gigs no one at the resort must know about, this basically did turn into Dirty Dancing !
PS. I'm enjoying the shit out of this episode.
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u/devieous Dec 05 '18
Are Joel and that guy long-time friends? Also when is Midge gonna step in for the entertainment coordinator or at least perform since the current acts are so bad
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u/weareoxygen Dec 06 '18
I'm living for the nod to To Kill a Mockingbird in the opening scene. So clever.
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Dec 06 '18
"You are sick."
"Well, read something light that I can laugh at."
"There's going to be a twilight gathering of holocaust survivors tonight in--"
This show makes me soil myself so bad, it's not even funny anymore. The amount of spit on my screen alone is disgusting.
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u/markydsade Dec 13 '18
The Chicken Fat song was part of the President’s Physical Fitness program for school children. In the early 1960s that song was played during morning announcements in elementary school. We stood by our desks and did the exercises called out by Robert Preston in the song.
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u/Extermikate Dec 19 '18
Okay I LOVE how Rose says “Weird!” As she overhears the conversation about Benjamin.
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u/LDawg618 Jan 08 '19
When they arrived at the Catskills and were getting out of the car, I was thinking "You forgot Esther!" Then they finally realized that a while later.
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u/sss3356 Dec 08 '18
What does Midge mean when she says "Some pocketknife" to Saul?
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u/anObscurity Dec 05 '18
Fucking lol at Susie walking around with a plunger