#show me midge

[bellamysgriffin]

This, what we're doing, what these last three years have been, this is not a story to tell my grandchildren. This is not just a chapter.

[pearlcaddy]

midgelenny + hollywood (jukebox the ghost)

[lovepollution]

Rachel Brosnahan and Luke Kirby pose in the Winners Gallery during the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium - 19th Jan. 2020

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

[Midge is] proud that she did exactly what she set out to do after doing exactly what she set out to do the first time and having the rug ripped out from under her. She's proud that she rebuilds, that she headed in a completely different direction that she didn't know was possible, that she found a partner and the love of her life in a lot of ways in both Susie and stand-up. She's proud and she's fulfilled. Is she happy? I don't know.

Rachel Brosnahan on the finale [x]

[incipientdreamer]

Midge and Susie breaking up because of a MAN (and that man being Joel of all people) makes me so so sick

[crudetautology]

[whosectype]

TITS UP!!!!

[oddballtumbles]

The way the love breaks you down as it builds you into a new person, realizing that just because that they couldn’t be, the future can have it for you still.

[sad-endings-suck]

Maybe it is because of how Warnette and Robin x Barney (HIMYM) were such formative experiences for me, or how predicting Feysand shortly after the release of ACOTAR book 1 was my tumblr debut, but I have become a human romance detector (not in real life, thank god). I am a finely honed tool that can zero in on any interaction or throwaway line and tell you whether or not that will culminate in a canon ship, and I have never been wrong. This is why Midge x Lenny (TMMM) was so satisfying for me, I was waiting for that hotel scene since season 1. Carmy x Sydney (the Bear) will happen, and I’ve known that since season 1. I am a prophet. I prophesize.

[charcubed]

someday, ages after the show’s been finished, I’m going to roll up with a post compiling a bunch of screenshots of moments where Midge Maisel was subtextually queer. and I’ve just accepted that by the time I ever get around to it no one is going to care (especially since very few people would’ve cared in the first place) but that’s okay. I think the world needs it anyway. eventually. just so it’ll exist somewhere.

[ragazzadellearance]

People criticising Midge for 5 years for being a bad mother because the show focused on her work life rather than her domestic life vs people never questioning Ted's parenting knowing he choose to live on a different continent than his son

[itspanzee]

If you watched the last episode of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and don't automatically think that Susie is Midge's real true love after they are laughing and the screen fades to black....we didn't watch the same show.

[cottoncandysprite]

I'm finding myself becoming invested in Midge and Susie from Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and I think it's because it's just nandermo but make them sapphics in the 50s/60s and dial down the toxicity to like 2%

[violet-witch-6]

I for one loved the final season of tmmm. It’s getting a lot of hate for not doing this or that or just not being 100% a happy ending (how dare it be bitter sweet??? She’s?? Isolated from her loved ones because of the inevitable cost of her ambition and fame??? ImPoSsiBle!!).

When we first started with the flash forwards of Midge’s children and we saw how estranged they were, I admit I wasn’t too pleased, but as the season was coming out I was also doing a rewatch, and the more of the old seasons I watched, the more s5 made sense. This is where we’ve always been headed. Every big turn in the series has always presented Midge with the question “will you choose your domestic life or your career?” and she chose her career. Every. Time. Over men, over family, over her children. Even when she was presented with Benjamin, ostensibly an opportunity to try and make it work with a man who actively supported her career, she walked away from him because she knew that he would never matter to her as much as being on stage would. To be honest, I think the flash forwards were nearly kind. They started out rough in the first half of the season with the estrangement, the several failed marriages, and the implication of a falling out with Susie, but eventually they balanced out. She fought with Susie, but they eventually found their way back to each other. She was distant from her family, but she still loved them and used her money to support her mother’s dream. She got everything she wanted because she made a choice and she took it as far as she could.

As far back as s2e7 (and honestly even before that), this message has been explicit in the show with that painter showing Midge his master piece and explaining how it ruined his life because he put everything he had into that. The epilogue is showing us Midge’s version of that, and tbh, it still pulls its punches, because she still manages to have meaningful (if distant) relationships with Susie, her family, and Joel whereas the painter’s story was somehow even more depressing.

Was s5 perfect? Of course not. Some of the scenes didn’t land for me, and there are things I wish they would’ve done differently, but when it comes down to it, this was a pretty good conclusion. It showed how the characters grew, and how they were still exactly who they always were. It gave every character an ending that made sense for them (even when some of them made me sad) and honestly, Midge’s four minute set on the Gordon Ford show (which could not possibly have been just four minutes) could not more blatantly have been a thesis statement that the show never once veered away from. Everything was building to this conclusion, and I for one found it satisfying in the way that a well crafted story/conclusion is always satisfying, even if it’s a conclusion that makes people uncomfortable.

[crudetautology]