Rumble on the Wonder Wheel

I sincerely hope that the answer to my question in the title will be a resounding "no/neyn/n'et" but EP01S04 was a disappointment. Too much screaming, too much swearing, too shallow humor, and too many recycled punchlines. For instance, it was obvious from the beginning that the Chinese muscle guy will speak English (with an American accent).

Other fantastic TV shows such as All in the Family or Maude, etc., proved that eventually they couldn't keep up the quality, so probably this is a natural process.

Still, Mrs. Maisel is fun to watch and is highly recommended.

If the first two episodes of season 4 are an indication of where this show is going then they have lost a viewer here. Why is she screaming all of her lines...for that matter why is just about everyone been turned into a cartoon character? Susie and Joel are about the only likable characters fit to watch. I hope this settles back into the wonderful show it was for the first 3 seasons.

This was a very disappointing first episode of season four. She spent the whole time screaming at people. Very little comedy. Nothing but whining from her father throughout the entire episode. The whole extravaganza at Coney Island and the Ferris wheel was horrible.

Feels like this wonderful show lost some of its momentum over the pandemic break. First episode was nonstop ranting as others have noted, and they really wore out the bumping into furniture jokes in episode 2. And the "f bombs." Will give up on this show if it doesn't improve in the next episode. Too bad because I really loved the first two seasons.

I'll soon be 72. Watched a lot of TV and would be hard pressed to recall another American TV episode that put so much on the screen. Not all of it was good. A small bit was bad. Most was inspired.

The after-monologue taxi ride? Forced and close to silly. But Rachel Brosnihan as Ursala Andress in She or sort of an Attack of the 50 Foot Woman did make me chuckle. The detail put into Mrs. Maisel's ex-husband's night club was beyond good. But that Ferris wheel scene? Brilliant.

All the characters literally talking past themselves as they're stuck going round and round an getting nowhere was not only a perfect visual metaphor, but it was also crisp, well edited and utterly entertaining. The payoff for me was when Midge...and only Midge...got off. Only Mrs. Maisel realized that everyone else is trapped in a cage going nowhere. As I said, inspired.

This was a memorable piece of television.