It is hard to say just how great this Amazon musical set in New York City in the late 1950's. Midge is who you might wish your mother to be like at core, although maybe not to reveal it to you until after you left home. She is flat out hilarious in a way that was very risqué in the late 1950’s and when her husband reveals to her that he is having an affair with his secretary and is leaving her, she takes his spot at a walk on stand up comedy club and just nails it. So well that the manager singles her out and starts to groom her for the stage.
All the while she has prim and proper Jewish parents that she is forced to move in with, she has to take a job at the make-up counter in retail, and while you would think it would be killing her to do so, she really thrives on it. This is technically a musical, in that there is music that conveys the story as well as the mood, but it is everything that you would hope for in the genre and I can not wait to see Season Two.
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