'The Marvelous Mrs Maisel' Showrunners On Creating The Perfect-Imperfect New York Heroine

central conflict in season two of ' Marvelous Mrs Maisel' maybe internal but its energy and quirkiness mirrors its star Rachel Brosnahan's outlook, which is about marching through life on a "really high te", says creator Amy Sherman-Palli. 

show's fast but rhythmic pace is also informed by Sherman-Palli's past as a dancer and way she and husband Daniel Palli, co-showrunner, view New York City: with a lot of affection.

"I was a dancer and I think that my direction style comes from my sense of dance and energy and motion. I grew up in California, which was a cruel cosmic joke. New York and me, we shouldn't have been paired at all. 

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"When I went to New York, I live re w, that's what I felt, this rush of energy, motion and movement. I think show reflects that," Sherman-Palli told PTI in a telephonic interview from Milan.

She is full of praise for show's le, whose personality, she believes, has also impacted ir heroine, Mirium 'Midge' Maisel's characterisation.

"We have this unbelievable girl who has this energetic, confident march through life. Midge marches through life way Rachel marches through life. On a really high te, which is shocking. We are embracing energy and musicality of piece," she said.

Daniel said y did t want to create a 1950s New York way it has been done in many or shows and films, which makes it feel like city is wrapped in a time capsule. ir version pulsates with life, he ded. 

"Sometimes when people make shows and movies about past, y sort of give it a look that gives it a distant era look. It is like a time capsule that we are watching from afar.

"We wanted people to feel like y are in New York in 1959 so we tried to make colourful. It is sort of heightened but that's also how Midge's character sees her world. In a way, visuals in show reflect characters' outlook. That's how she sees her world. re is a change when she is in Susie's world, which is a bit darker. It's downtown New York," he said.

first season of show, about a 1950s a New York housewife who stumbles into stand-up comedy after learning about her husband's infidelity, became a runaway success when it bowed on Amazon Prime Video last year and went on to win awards at Golden Globes and Emmys.

sophomore season has alrey earned critical acclaim and is on its way to award season triumph with three minations at Globes 2019.  showrunners say as flattering as it was to be told that it would be impossible to follow-up "perfect" first season, y drowned out all ise and kept ir ses to ground. 

"It was flattering for people to say that you can't possibly follow up what you have done earlier. But Amy and I are t new to business. We have been doing this for a while w. We just keep our ses to ground. It is up to or people to judge wher it is good, better or t. We just needed to keep going," Palli said.

Sherman-Palli, who was also brain behind superhit "Gilmore Girls", joked that she has " or skill" or than working on show.

"We only do this and as much as we would love to do one season and walk away, re literally would have thing else to do, so we have to keep going," she said.

Amy, who grew up watching her far perform as a stand-up comic, said she wanted to create something around that world in 1950s period but with a woman as a protagonist.

"I was enamoured with idea of setting something in that time period because it is such a fun, fascinating and visual time period. I thought journey of stand-up comedy would be a little more interesting with a woman than my far... I hope he would be okay with fact that I turned him into Rachel. 

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"It is rmal for females to be a part of comedy today but comedy in '50s was really hard. And on top of it, for a woman who was t indoctrinated in that world. She h her world. She was a wife and mor and queen of six blocks of Upper West Side," she said.

Alex Borstein, who plays role of Susie Myerson, Midge's manr, was someone that Sherman-Palli always wanted to work with, while Brosnahan, who has a number of intense roles to her credit, including her breakout performance in "House of Cards", was a complete surprise. 

"Alex was in front of us for a long time. She was my original Sookie in 'Gilmore Girls'. She could t do show because she h a contract at that time. We just needed to work with her.

"Rachel is this amazing, accomplished young actress, who came in, never

having done comedy before, and basically mopped floor. It was a mic drop when she walked out of room after audition. lucky thing is that when you put m toger, re is this instant chemistry and camarerie. That's kind of thing that matter how good script is, you can't create. We got very, very lucky re," Sherman-Palli said.

second season also brings characters such as Midge's far and mor, played by Tony Shalhoub and Marin Hinkle, into spotlight even as she struggles between new love and old ties as her career as a stand-up comedian starts to pick up. Sherman-Palli said Midge will forever be torn about her different identities.

"She would be torn between se worlds for rest of her life. One was of comfort and ease, complete safety and routine. And n re is something that is more exciting, venturous and braver but potentially more lonely. You have to give up your old life if you go after something this big," she said.