‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Amy Sherman-Palladino & Daniel Palladino On Season 3’s Fascinating Rhythm & Midge’s Season 4 Crossroads – Crew Call Podcast

Anthony D'Alessandro
·3 min read

Click here to read the full article.

Spoiler Alert: The following podcast contains spoilers about season 3 of Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

The one motif that rings throughout season 3 of Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is that the production literally struck up the band. From the first episode’s massive USO show, to a Latin Miami dance slow dance, to a swimming pool ballet that Midge wrecks, and all the Shy Baldwin love songs in between, season 3 was a wall-to-wall musical.

More from Deadline

“We wanted Midge in season 3 to be be swept up; a huge observer of a big hot young star’s journey,” the series EP/director and writer Dan Palladino tells Deadline’s Crew Call.

“We wanted her to see fame,” adds creator/EP/director/writer Amy Sherman-Palladino.

“…And the effects of fame,” says Dan Palladino.

Season 3 in particular, “allowed us to indulge in our inner MGM, Gene Kelly, Arthur Freed moments; everything in the show goes through Midge’s point of view,” says Amy Sherman Palladino.

Listen to our conversation with the duo here:

But with great success, comes failure as well. Midge (Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan) quickly becomes a sensation opening for Shy Baldwin and going on a road tour that takes her to Las Vegas and Miami, however, she together with her manager Susie (two-time Emmy winner Alex Borstein) find themselves down and out on an airport tarmac, with harsh lessons learned: Midge having joked too far about Shy in her Apollo Theater set, and Susie having wasted away a chuck of Midge’s earnings.

“We always had in mind what a show business friendship means and that is nothing” explains Dan Palladino about what Midge experiences.

“She went in trusting, feeling she had a safe harbor (in Shy). Everyone who has worked in this business as a creative has discovered the hard lesson that one day, they aren’t real friendships. You can be friendly with people and have true friends, but don’t confuse the two — because it’s still a cutthroat business. It’s run by money, it’s run by ego, and she ran into this problem with Shy,” says Dan.

The duo hope that season 4 will go into production by August in New York, and we also talk with them how the new COVID-19 production standards will impact the highly stylized show.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has won 16 Emmys during its two season run including Outstanding Comedy Series.

 

 

Best of Deadline

Sign up for Deadline's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.