Episode 5 was great, best of the season.
I have to say the return of Jason Alexander was a low point of the series run. He & Tony Shalhoub were painful. I felt more like I was watching George & Monk at their worst playing off each other.
The matchmaker syndicate was hilarious. I wonder where Rose goes with that.
Susie’s interviewing skills.
It threw me off right out of the blocks. How the heck is Susie affording to hire a secretary? I know they got the insurance fraud money but that was just supposed to be enough to pay back Joel. And Susie is above accepting a new car and reselling it?
I love the character Mei Lin btw. I do think they undersell the difficulties she faces though. Medical school in that era was both sexist and racist. Given the themes of how difficult it was for women in men’s world businesses, whether it be comedy or journalism, ignoring what Mei would be facing every day seems like a wasted opportunity. And given that she does deal with that I find it hard to accept that she is so very fearful of Joel’s parents possible racist reactions.
Last night I asked my wife if she wanted to watch the new eps and she said, “Nah.” So we’re likely done. Add it to the list of shows of which we ask, “We used to LIKE this?!”
MMM also was not helped IMO by the format of short seasons of 8 eps released at wide intervals. Often with such shows I forget what had been happening and lose my interest in the characters.
Yes, but don’t underestimate the wish on the part of his parents for him to settle down with a “nice Jewish girl”.
She can brush aside other people’s racism by telling herself that she doesn’t care what other people think, but she can’t do that with her boyfriend’s family. Family is the most important thing in the world.
Incidentally, I loved the scene where Joe’s dad Moishe came to visit his son at the club. He may be my favorite character on the show; maybe because he’s the only parent who respects his children.
That’s the irony of Mei’s fear of meeting Joel’s parents. Unlike Midge’s parents, Joel’s don’t care what other people think. His dad will be happy she comes from an entrepreneurial family, and his mom will be happy that there’s another grandchild on the way.
The wife and I tried but didn’t make it through ep1. Maybe later.
And a doctor!
My point though is less that it is unreasonable for Mei to have such anxiety over meeting them, than it is that the showrunners are missing something ignoring what she would have to be putting up with in her career path. They present it like the challenge and focus of anyone to get into and make through medical school. They act like the additional stress of being a women and being Asian in that environment at that time were not any extra things at all.
Supposedly, Susie is getting paid by Sophie Lennon, in addition to fruit baskets and Cadillacs.
His dad might be happy for him, but his mother… won’t be able to process the information. You’ll see.
Agreed. I think Joel’s mom is going have major issues with Mei not being Jewish. Moishe probably won’t react well at the beginning either, but will come around in a kind of, if you are happy, then I’m happy way.
They had an entire scene on that. The “I’m going to be a doctor/You’re going to be a doctor” IMO was entirely about her knowing being a woman and Asian was making this hard-to-impossible even before the pregnancy, and Joel doing his best to support her.
I wonder if they are going to do an abortion subplot. What were the NY laws in the early 1960’s? I vaguely recall there were states where it was legal.
In Madmen a character went to a Doctor in NJ. Still not legal, but she couldn’t find one in NY. So not legal if they got it right.
A little fast research: In NY; abortions were illegal from 1845 until 1970. In 1970 Abortions were legalized for up to the 24th week.
Funny. That was the very scene that made me react how I’ve reacted. That’s bread and butter focus of premed through residency. Generic. Her experience would not have been generic.
She’s conveniently traveling for residency interviews the next week. Her returning having solved the issue may be the next big issue of their relationship. And maybe saving her exploding about what she has put up with to get to where she is and why she is not giving that up is being saved for then.
I’m in awe of the acrobatics of the women playing strippers. They don’t look fit enough to be able to do what they’re doing. Maybe they’re strippers IRL? Rachel Brosnahan’s voice is still grating and annoying to me, but her comedic timing is good. The parents on both sides are hilarious, and Susie’s interviews were laugh-out-loud funny, as was the matchmaker cartel.
I enjoyed the first 3 seasons but I have yet to get through the first episode of this season. The scene of them screaming and yelling back and forth to each other on the Ferris wheel drove me crazy. It hurt my head. I think I’m done. I know I’m done. It’s too bad because I love the fashions, colors, and decor but not enough I guess.
Yeah. I’m willing to accept that all of the characters are over-the-top goofy and clueless, but that really pushed it beyond what I could accept. And I didn’t perceive the story-telling benefit from doing so either. (I DID, however, like the idea of the grandparents rescheduling birthdays! 
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Oh well - like I’ve said before, different tastes. I’m sure several folk will explain how that was hysterical… 
So long as the baby doesn’t look Chinese. Remember that comment about Megan and Harry’s baby.
Moishe will be ok, either way. I think he enjoys going against his wife (and who wouldn’t?).
And yeah, some of those strippers are amazing. I wonder how they were cast. Dancers? Acrobats? Actual strippers?