Warning: This article contains spoilers from episodes 1-3 of season 5 ofThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Lenny Bruce has flown off into the sunset.
“Sorry I didn’t call,” he tells Midge of failing to notify her of his move.
Rachel Brosnahan and Luke Kirby on ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’.Philippe Antonello/Prime
A statement Kirby believes he genuinely means.
“Why not?”
he says to EW.
Luke Kirby and Rachel Brosnahan on ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’.Amazon Studios
“He got busy.
He’s a busy guy.”
“Under the heft of all of that litigation, it’s another level of exhaustion.
Rachel Brosnahan and Luke Kirby on ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’.Amazon Prime
“Midge has certainly found her way into his wheel of love.
How can he not be somewhat stirred by it?
The words that he speaks to her at Carnegie Hall are really true and they mean something.
Seeing her is a reminder of that truth.”
Fans will remember that Brosnahan was long against any romantic consummation between Lenny and Midge.
But after filming a love scene between them last season, she’s changed her mind.
Of course it changed something, but it actually didn’t feel like it changed anything.
And that’s the best part about it.”
“We were in 1961.
He was about to hit his downward spiral,” Sherman-Palladino reflects.
“We talked a lot about what more did we need from the character?
But we wanted to check in with Lenny.
We didn’t want to leave with the sadness of Lenny.
We wanted to leave with the moments that Midge would take with her and lean back on.
But we also wanted to see that this business can eat you alive.
That was another thing we wanted to show.
For his part, Kirby wasn’t sure if this airport scene was his goodbye to Midge.
But he certainly felt it was weightier than many other scenes they’d shared.
“I didn’t know where the season was going to go,” he says.
“But I definitely played it differently than any other time that we’ve said goodbye to each other.
Whether Lenny might return, fans will have to wait and see.
The final season ofThe Marvelous Mrs. Maiselis now streaming onPrime Videowith new episodes dropping every Friday through May 26.
