Question for those of you who have watched #TheMarvelousMrsMaisel S3: is Midge a fundamentally kind person who is also clueless and self-absorbed, or a fundamentally mean person who conceals that cruelty with cuteness and privilege?
I ask because I've seen some people argue that Midge knew exactly what she was doing when she threw Shy Baldwin under the bus in the #MarvelousMrsMaisel S3 finale. That she's the sort of person who would knife anyone in the back for a laugh from the audience.
And the thing is, I'd love to be watching that kind of show. A show about a woman who has an unerring sense of everyone's weakness and how to mock it, and who gets away with that sort of behavior by being cute and white and privileged, and feigning innocence and cluelessness.
I just don't think #TheMarvelousMrsMaisel is that show. I don't think it's Midge who is selling the story of being clueless. I think it's the show. I think it wants us to see her as a truth-teller, someone whose greatest strength is also her worst quality.
Which is unfortunate, because I don't believe in that person. And that is my fundamental problem with #TheMarvelousMrsMaisel. I don't buy the story it's telling me about Midge, and I increasingly find her simply unbearable.
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