Rumble on the Wonder Wheel

This episode is like a bomb going off. From the crazy cab ride from the airport to the trip to Coney Island. The talking is non stop. No one is listening to anyone else. Their ships passing and feelings don't seem to matter. Midge is hurt and angry. Susie needs money to pay her back. So she is doing everything she can to replace it. I'm assuming that future episodes will settle down a bit.

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.

The Wonder Wheel Scene..... worth everything, its funny, its clever, its entertainment, I wish they would write more stuff like this..... Only to confirm tha Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is here to stay......

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.