Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Abe's Redemption Arc Is the Show's Peak So Far
It's never too late to start appreciating someone who was always on the short end of the stick.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is now in its season 5, and has already given fans a lot of side stories that explain a lot about the show's previous storylines.
The comedy series has been a hit since season 1, and continues to keep fans glued to their screens. The show tells the story of a young woman, Miriam (Midge for short), whose life changes in an instant.
From being nothing more than a kind of Jewish version of a Stepford wife, to a first divorced woman with two children, but soon a world famous comedienne.
This journey is truly amazing because at that time, the late 50's, it was not common for women to have a job, let alone be successful in what was previously considered a man's job.
Fans realized from the beginning that Midge was a special person. Frankly, everyone who met her over the course of the show realized that.
But of course there were a few exceptions. For example, her parents. Rose and Abe Weissman were only interested in Midge being a good wife and mother and being accepted in society.
They never really cared about her struggles, her desires, or her dreams. Needless to say, her accomplishments were not seen as anything special.
This frustrated not only Midge, who learned to live with it after a while, but also the fans. They liked Rose and Abe in general, but always felt that their character development was the slowest and lowest.
But that all changed in season 5, episode 8. Well, at least for Abe Weissman.
His whole personality was redeemed in just one short speech on the spot. This episode really made us understand how much he had changed over the course of the series.
During the scene in the restaurant with his work friends, Abe feels lost because of the wall of thoughts in his head. He is having some kind of life crisis.
The thing is, all his life, until he was a 64-year-old man, he always relied on men. This includes his son and grandson. There was a story that every first-born Weissman male will have a brilliant mind and be a genius by the age of six.
This happened to Abe himself, to his son Noah. And Abe waited for the same thing to happen to his grandson Ethan.
But it never happened. Instead, he found out that his grandson was just a "happy kid," but his granddaughter Esther showed some brilliance.
This made Abe re-evaluate all of his beliefs and understand that women also can be clever and powerful.
And for the first time in his life Abe finally acknowledged how wrong he was by not taking his daughter seriously when she was young. And even when she grew older and had proven many times that she is a strong-minded and smart person.
He finally says the words about her that she probably always wanted to hear.
Well, what the heck, every girl's dream is to hear that only phrase from their fathers: "My daughter is a remarkable person."
The fans admired that moment in the show.
"I was sobbing. Such a beautiful moment for Abe as a father to recognize how he never truly saw his daughter for who she is until now. Such amazing writing and delivered genuinely by the actor," Redditor mcharmer27 said.
Well, now that Abe is that person, the rest of what the writers need to do is at least hint that Rose also understands her daughter's true colors before the end of the show.
That would be a great gift to the fans.