Susie is honored with a roast that toasts to the past, present, and unfortunate future in the latest episode of TheMarvelousMrsMaisel. Our review:
With three episodes left in its final season, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel finally finds a way to make peace with the jarring flashforwards it has decided to employ to tie up all of its loose threads. The first five episodes of Season 5 failed to figure out how to cleverly use the future to push the story forward, but Episode 6 shows that it is possible to move between the future and near-future to explore where Midge and Susie end up.
As Sean Gunn’s Roastmaster snarks at the top of the episode, Prime Video has advised us to avoid going into specifics about the riff between Susie and the person “whose name we shall not utter,” in addition to a myriad of other critical aspects of what the Testi-Roastial exposes about that bleak future. So let’s unpack what we can about Susie’s rise to managerial fame and the fact that The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is uncomfortably hung up on Joel still.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel made a grievous mistake in Season 4, one that was a blessing and a curse all rolled into one. Paying off four seasons of chemistry between Midge and Lenny Bruce came at a price, and the price is apparently the wildly off-putting idea that Midge just can’t quit her cheating ex-husband.
Admittedly, the roast is quite comical in how it is constructed, and it is a really clever way to info-dump, rather than giving the series a proper send-off that doesn’t feel rushed and half-hearted. The cast of characters brought in to portray Susie’s colleagues are stellar, and really make the most of their screen time. As Sherman-Palladino is wont to do, she’s even tapped a Broadway star to pop up in a flashback as one of Susie’s almost clients.
In theory, Episode 6—like most of Season 5—warrants a much lower grade, but it is salvaged merely by the grace of Borstein’s acting chops. Historically, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel always gives her at least one episode where she is allowed to be front and center, like “Everything is Bellmore” last season, and “The Testi-Roastial” is that for the final season.
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