Maisel takes place in the late 1950s and early 1960s in New York City, with season one roughly covering 1958, season two taking on 1959 and season three welcoming us into a new decade.
Maisel (opens in new tab)Ī photo posted by on When does 'Marvelous Mrs. We've kind of made her up out of whole cloth."Ī post shared by The Marvelous Mrs. "And.while there's a bit of all these female comics in Midge, there's not a lot in Midge. "A lot of that is drawn from Don, and some of it's drawn from stand-ups that we've known over the years," co-executive produce Dan Palladino told Women's Health. Sherman-Palladino's childhood memories of her dad pepper Midge's story and the Maisel universe at large, but Midge Maisel is a comedian all her own.
While accepting the 2018 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, Sherman-Palladino honored her dad, saying: “My father inspired this, really, so I had to turn a 6-foot-2 Bronx Jew into Rachel Brosnahan. Sherman was an actor and stand-up comedian in New York City who, like Midge, would serve as the opening act for popular singers of the time, like Dinah Washington and Johnny Mathis, reports Women's Health. "We worship every single one of them, but not really based on any of those characters."Īctually, the glamorous fictional comedian most closely resembles a surprising source: Sherman-Palladino's father, Don Sherman. You tip your hat to them because they were the pioneers, the groundbreakers," Sherman-Palladino told Women's Health (opens in new tab). "All those women-obviously, you think of them.
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