This episode exhibits, perhaps, the most moving dramatic moment to date. Alex Borstein owns four minutes of poignant dialogue that will stay with you for a long, long time. A true highlight. The Burlesque theater bits...all of them...are just the opposite. Well filmed, well-paced but overly long. They seemed to be distractions. Rose's matchmaker attempts fall into the distraction category as well. It too is a miss.
The in-betweens would be huge plusses for just about any other offering. But when it comes to this series, the bar is much higher. A running gag about Midge's none too successful summer camp theater attempt is handled deftly, hits hard and just often enough. The punch line delivered in a crowded Synagogue makes it all the funnier. There are other story lines within the story lines that are pretty funny too. The mistaken identifies at a Bar Mizpah come fast and they're funny too. Tony Shalub (sp) has fine moments throughout.
I'd like to rate this offering higher, but I can't. The out of place and hard to believe 'f' bombs delivered almost constantly made this more than a little tough to accept. To priests, rabbis, children, in theaters in restaurants, during religious services and no one even reacts. Hard to believe in 1960 and hard for me to sit though in 2022 without asking why it necessary to throw so much profanity into the story and why not a single person reacted to any of it.
The in-betweens would be huge plusses for just about any other offering. But when it comes to this series, the bar is much higher. A running gag about Midge's none too successful summer camp theater attempt is handled deftly, hits hard and just often enough. The punch line delivered in a crowded Synagogue makes it all the funnier. There are other story lines within the story lines that are pretty funny too. The mistaken identifies at a Bar Mizpah come fast and they're funny too. Tony Shalub (sp) has fine moments throughout.
I'd like to rate this offering higher, but I can't. The out of place and hard to believe 'f' bombs delivered almost constantly made this more than a little tough to accept. To priests, rabbis, children, in theaters in restaurants, during religious services and no one even reacts. Hard to believe in 1960 and hard for me to sit though in 2022 without asking why it necessary to throw so much profanity into the story and why not a single person reacted to any of it.