This series is put together with care. Season 4 especially. The track music, for instance, in this one is subtly brilliant. Playing 'It's so nice to have a man about the house' at Shai's wedding? Hilarious. There's stuff like that throughout this episode.
Quickly - The old joke about Jewish Mothers and matchmakers is merged into both Miriam and Joel's mothers' story lines. Both meddle. Both are matchmakers. One professionally the other obsessively. - Jane Lynch is so good as the disturbed but still show business addicted Sophie Lennon that the viewer gets to experience her as both a train wreck and a sympathetic character. The sweet spot all professional talk show guests seek. And Lynch is so good at it. - There's a resolution with Shai on Midge's terms that seems right and is done intelligently. The part as the met and where they met. For all of her quirks and starts and stops the essential honorable character of Mrs. Maisel is on display. - Personally, I don't like the way the Asian girlfriend's dialogue is presented. She comes across as a scripted TV character whose delivery is rapid in order to squeeze it in before the next commercial break. The director should slow her pace down. - Susie Meyerson sort of begins to seriously establish herself as an agent and we're getting to the point with that character that he incredibly lack of awareness or rudimentary understanding of basic social graces is getting harder and harder to accept. She's meeting with other agents, lives in New York and has lived with Midge. Time for some of that to rub off on her.