“This is it. This is the break.” Watch the official trailer for the final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, premiering April 14 on Prime Video.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is taking its final bow.
The award-winning, hit Amazon series from the Palladinos and starring Rachel Brosnahan will release its fifth and final season starting April 14. Three episodes will release at launch, with the remaining seven episodes releasing weekly on Fridays.
The news and teaser trailer comes after six years of viewers watching Midge Maisel (Brosnahan) ascend on the comedy stage, amid ups and downs in both her personal life and professional aspirations.
In the fifth and final season, Midge will find herself closer than ever to the success she’s dreamed of, only to discover that closer than ever is still so far away. More from the logline: “After burning bridges and being cut from tour, Midge Maisel persisted through season four, rebuilding her career and reputation. The final moments of the season culminated with Midge leaving Carnegie Hall reinvigorated and ready to weather any blizzard. After an epiphany in front of The Gordon Ford Show’s snowy billboard, Midge is ready to ‘Go forward’ and fight for her ascent to stardom — equipped with her quick wit and sharp tongue, and nothing else to lose.”
After the season four finale, the husband-and-wife duo of creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and executive producer Daniel Palladino spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the decision to bring their Emmy darling to a close.
“We always had a general endpoint in mind for the series, but it was somewhere at four or five or six, or something like that. And it just seemed to fit in season five,” said Palladino. Sherman-Palladino added, “When it came down to five and out, we sat down and said, ‘OK, now what do we do to make sure that we stick the landing?’ Because that’s the most important thing.”
Brosnahan, while in production on the final season, also spoke to THR about how she and the cast and crew were handling the news at the time, while looking ahead to Midge’s final season storyline: “I appreciate this portrait of an incredibly flawed woman chasing her ambition as hard as she knows how.”
The season four finale also gave viewers a long-awaited payoff with Midge and Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby), which Sherman-Palladino explained was always about “figuring out how his trajectory could inform Midge’s journey and what she could take from it, learn from it.”
The Palladinos, meanwhile, have known the series’ last images and final moment since the finale released last year.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is written and directed by showrunners Sherman-Palladino and Palladino, and, along with Emmy winner Brosnahan, stars four-time Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub, three-time Emmy winner Alex Borstein, Emmy nominee Marin Hinkle, Michael Zegen, Kevin Pollak, Caroline Aaron, Reid Scott, Alfie Fuller and Jason Ralph. [Source]
Ahead of the premiere of season four of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Prime Video announced that the comedy will return for one last chapter.
“Amy, Dan, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel have blazed an unparalleled path, elevating the stories we tell about women, challenging the norms in our industry, and forever altering the entertainment landscape with their one-of-a-kind storytelling,” Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios, said in a statement. “The dozens of awards cement Maisel’s legacy in many ways, but what’s even more enduring and poignant are the characters Amy created and the joyous, brilliant, singular world she and Dan brought to life.”
Salke added, “This series has meant so much to Prime Video and the effects of its success will be felt long after its final season. I can’t wait for fans and our worldwide Prime Video audience to savor each moment as we embark on the culmination of this groundbreaking and unforgettable series.”
Maisel first premiered in 2017, and has followed the career of housewife turned stand-up comedian Miriam “Midge” Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) as she finds her voice. The show garnered nominations for 66 Emmys over the course of the first four seasons, notching 20 wins so far. (The 2022 Emmys have yet to happen, where the show is up for Outstanding Comedy Series among other awards.)
“We don’t want don’t want to overstay our welcome,” creator Amy Sherman-Palladino told TVLine in 2020. “Midge has a journey she has to take. It’s the struggle that is fun [as opposed to] ‘I’m sitting in a penthouse and I’m really rich and I’ve got a lot of chihuahuas.’ We know emotionally where we want to end her and at what point we want to cut it off, we just don’t know how many episodes it’s going to take to get there.”
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THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILER ALERTS FOR SEASON 4, LAST TWO EPISODES
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel wrapped Season 4 in a blinding snowstorm and with plenty of loose ends to tie up in the Emmy-winning Prime Video series’ fifth and final season currently in production.
Badly burned at the end of Season 3 and plenty mad, Rachel Brosnahan’s Midge Maisel, a female comic and Upper West Side mom in 1960s New York City, has turned down or blown gigs just about every episode in exchange for total creative freedom — which she’s found an illegal strip club. Her alter ego friend, mentor and more, Lenny Bruce, played by Luke Kirby, sets her straight about work in the season finale after his triumphant set at Carnegie Hall and it appears she’ll be moving her career along at a brisker pace next season.
The real life Bruce in fact played a groundbreaking performance on the Carnegie Hall in1961.
Midge is always the show’s center of gravity, but as her career falters the management business of Alex Borstein’s Susie Myerson takes some strides with new digs, a secretary and a few more clients, but no second telephone line and some other complications that need to to be ironed out.
Family matters were prominent — including Midge’s ex-husband Joel, his new girlfriend and his parents, as well as a sudden threat to the growing matchmaking business of her mother Rose (Marin Hinkle).
Miriam remains unattached but does have a moment with This Is Us star Milo Ventimiglia.
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I have added some new photos of Rachel Brosnahan on the set of ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’ Season 5 in New York. You can go to the gallery to take a look to the photos.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017-2021) > On the set of ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’ in NYC (March 11, 2022)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017-2021) > On the set of ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’ in NYC (March 10, 2022)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017-2021) > On the set of ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’ in NYC (February 25, 2022)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017-2021) > On the set of ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’ in NYC (March 10, 2022)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017-2021) > On the set of ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’ in NYC (February 25, 2022)
