The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 5/ Episode 8 “The Princess and The Plea” – Recap and Review (with Spoilers)
As we come upon what launched Mrs. Maisel nationally, Abe questions his life choices, and Joel shares a nice moment with Miriam.
As we come upon what launched Mrs. Maisel nationally, Abe questions his life choices, and Joel shares a nice moment with Miriam.
It has been approximately five years since the end of Susie and Miriam’s working relationship and friendship, and we finally learn what broke the camel’s back.
Alongside Joel finally telling Moishe about Mei, Alfie performs and causes trouble, and Susie considers firing Dinah.
Sophie approaches Miriam with an offer she’ll find hard to refuse as Rose comes to learn her business is causing conflict.
As Miriam starts getting the Wolf together, she tries to get Susie’s life together and gets major pushback for trying to do so.
As Miriam adjusts to working at the Wolf, Susie is beside herself due to Jackie’s death, and Abe may have committed social suicide amongst his community.
While Miriam claims she wants bigger and better, she seems unwilling to get out of her own way as Susie tries to get her and Miriam’s finances together.
With Shy Baldwin’s tour on pause, we get to experience Miriam hustling for cash and Susie putting her foot up Sophie’s butt – my god what an episode.
Susie shows she is ready for the big leagues as Miriam shows she may need to be carefully watched, for she isn’t ready to be truly on her own.
Miriam finally hits the road, and the first stop is Vegas! A place where she sees her name in lights and is given a reality check before her first monetary one.
As Miriam and Joel divorce, and she spends some time with Imogene, it hits her harder and harder that things are changing for her, and nearly everyone around her.
Sophie Lennon returns and she is in the same place as Miriam. Will they reconcile or will there be some fuel added to their feud?
Abe learns it isn’t only Miriam with a secret and Joel joins Miriam in beginning to move on.
It’s almost an uneventful episode until Rose hooks up Miriam with a man, a doctor, named Benjamin.
Abe and Joel continue to evolve, Miriam realizes her social etiquette is going to the toilet and Susie? Well, she is just tired of being broke.
What’s a word Midge doesn’t often associate with herself? Failure. One she gets a huge heaping of this episode.
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