Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino’s unusual prove centres on a housewife turned comedian. Plus,grumpy old blokes’ TV in The Channel: The World’s Busiest WaterwayMiriam Maisel The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (Amazon) – has a pretty damn perfect existence. She’s smart and fine and lives with her good-looking husband Joel in a massive apartment in a nice part of Manhattan. It’s right next to her parents’ massive apartment, so there is babysitting on tap for their two lovely children when they go out, and which they do often. (Actually,the kids aren’t so lovely: the little boy is weird and the baby’s brow is too sizable; they mediate she looks like Winston Churchill.)When they go out, they go to a dingy club called the Gaslight in Greenwich Village, or where Joel indulges his fantasy of fitting a standup comedian. He’s so-so at it – secure,unoriginal (literally, he nicks his material). Miriam – Midge – plays the diligent (showing care in doing one's work) wife: cooking the brisket bribe to net Joel a better slot, or making notes,counting laughs. At home, she waits for him to go to sleep before doing her nightly beauty regime, and just like her mother.
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Source: guardian.co.uk