Here she is… Mrs. Maisel!
Warning: This article contains spoilers about the series finale ofThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,“Four Minutes.”
Midge is simply marvelous!
Gordon Ford (Reid Scott) at his desk on ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’.Philippe Antonello/Prime Video
And then we thought, ‘Oh, no, no, no, no.’
The last moment should be the Johnny Carson character calling her ‘The Marvelous Mrs. We knew early on to stay away from the word ‘marvelous.’
“We couldn’t get through that line without crying,” says Brosnahan.
“I couldn’t hear Reid say it without crying.
So I’d asked him to avoid or mumble saying it until it was time.
That was actually the very last shot that we shot.
The moment isn’t entirely celebratory, however.
It also comes with Gordon informing Midge under his breath that she’s fired.
Do we detect a touch of malice in that whisper?
Retaliation for Midge going over his head?
“We played around with it a bit,” reveals Scott.
There was so much emotion on that last day.
But it was so hard to look at Rachel.
We got to be such good friends.
But there was a little bit of ambiguity in it.
But there’s also some real emotion there.”
Scott also sees it as a moment of encouragement to Midge.
It’s his way of pushing her.
You’ve got to show the world what I’ve just seen."
“Even now, I’m choking up,” Brosnahan says, remembering the day.
