‘Mrs. Maisel’ Finale Recap: Season 5 Episode 9 ‘Four Minutes’ [PHOTOS]

The following story comprises spoilers from the Last. Episode. Ever. of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — proceed at your individual peril

Hewing to a darkness-before-light construction, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel‘s sequence finale will get the unhappy stuff out of the way in which first.

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The opening scene of “Four Minutes” flashes ahead to 1965 and promptly reminds us that the story of Lenny Bruce was a most tragic one. While sequence creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, who wrote and directed the hour-plus swan track, fortunately spares us from having to witness the speedy lead-up to the real-life comedian’s premature 1966 dying, the sight of Lenny bombing spectacularly on stage in a dingy, miserable San Francisco membership — adopted by an unsuccessful intervention on the a part of Susie — tees up his the predestined drug overdose to return. (Our now-complete Mrs. Maisel remaining season flash-forward cheat sheet may be discovered right here.)

But as soon as the motion jumps again to the current and Midge learns that Susie’s Hedy-themed Hail Mary cross had, actually, resulted in a landing — Midge is gonna be on The Gordon Ford Show! — the episode delivers one satisfying rapid-fire payoff after one other. And an eleventh hour hiccup that sees this system’s deeply insecure, and aggressively sexist eponymous host practically sabotage our heroine’s massive, hard-fought break made Midge’s final, inevitable triumph all of the extra rewarding.

Scroll right down to view the ten finale moments that introduced us to our toes.

Hail to That Spectacular Taxi Traffic Jam Set Piece

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No doubt a bunch of these yellow cabs had been digitally added throughout post-production. Nonetheless, the sequence whereby Rose and Abe — en path to The Gordon Ford Show to witness daughter Midge crash via the glass ceiling — race via the streets of New York looking desperately for an accessible taxi amid an epic bottleneck was the ultimate over-the-top set piece we didn’t know we would have liked.
Impromptu Dance Break: Part 1

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Midge Maisel is worked up and he or she simply can’t cover it after studying — from her woeful weasel of a boss Gordon Ford — that she is going to seem as a visitor on The Gordon Ford Show. (How satisfying was it watching a completely emasculated Ford soften down whereas begrudgingly extending stated invitation to our woman.)
Impromptu Dance Break: Part 2

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We can depend on a fingerless hand the variety of occasions we witnessed Susie Myerson expertise and categorical pure unadulterated elation, so watching her bounce up and down whereas clutching Midge was as uncommon because it was rewarding. (The smile on the face of Susie’s trusty assistant Dinah within the background of their embrace was the icing on the cake.)
‘Thank You, Papa’

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After spending 5 seasons unsuccessfully making an attempt to realize the approval of her impossible-to-please educational father, Midge is lastly capable of impress — even excite — Abe with the information that she might be showing on The Gordon Ford Show. The easy, tender, soul-uplifting “thank you, papa” she provides him in return is what lands this candy scene in our Top 10.
Fourth Wall, Begone!

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Watching Jason Ralph, who joined Mrs. Maisel in Season 5 as Gordon Ford Show producer Mike Carr, assist facilitate his real-life spouse Rachel Brosnahan’s climactic onscreen victory lap was meta-licious.
One Last, ‘Tits Up’

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Midge bestows on Susie a gorgeously rendered remaining “tit’s up” proper earlier than she hijacks the mic for her climactic, profession altering set on The Gordon Ford Show.
Gordon Ford Invites Midge to the Couch

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In a nod to Johnny Carson’s coveted seal-of-approval gesture, a crow-eating Gordon Ford invitations a gobsmacked Midge to his sofa for an interview (and a pink slip) following her rousing stand-up efficiency.
Promise Fulfilled

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Midge’s Gordon Ford Show triumph caps Susie’s exhaustive five-season battle to “break” her No. 1 shopper. And the pleasure and reduction on Susie’s face as she watches Midge take flight reminds us that Alex Borstein is a nationwide treasure that have to be protected in any respect prices, cheap or in any other case.
A Flashback Worth a Fortune

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As the display screen fades to black following Midge’s massive Gordon Ford Show success, the episode flashes again six months (to the night time of Midge and Lenny’s long-awaited hookup within the Season 4 finale) and treats us to 1 remaining swoonworthy second with the couple. The looming tragedy of Lenny’s premature dying — foreshadowed earlier within the episode — solely heightens the second’s heartbreaking poignancy. It additionally confirms, sadly, that Midge and Lenny’s impromptu airport run-in within the Season 5 premiere unwittingly served as their remaining goodbye.
That Final Jeopardy! Scene

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The finale ends by revealing through a circa-2005 flash-forward that not solely will Midge (residing alone in her resplendent residence at New York’s famed Dakota with nothing however her busy touring schedule to maintain her heat at night time) and Susie (now retired and residing in Hawaii with a small military of parrots) finally patch issues up, however they may spend their twilight years partaking in a nightly check-in by phone-slash- Jeopardy! viewing occasion. It was the happiest of endings.

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