
'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's' act is starting to look stale as it nears the exit
CNN
Season 4 of the Amazon series picks up with the stand-up comic, two years after a strong Season 3. Mrs. Maisel is back on the road and in the spotlight.
Maybe it's the long layoff, or maybe it's partly because your act already felt like it was growing a little stale, but the new season of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel?" Not your best stuff, at least based on the first few episodes. In fact, it just feels like you're hitting the same one-liners all over again.
Granted, this might be a minority opinion, given all the major Emmys that you collected in 2018, before "Fleabag" and that guy Ted Lasso came along. But season four -- picking up after the left-behind-on-the-tarmac moment that closed the stronger third season more than two years ago -- feels like too much of a reset, putting you back in that hungry-for-stage-time mode from which you appeared to have graduated.

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