94% Tomatometer from 82 critics and Emmy wins for Outstanding Comedy Series and Lead Actress; Rachel Brosnahan's performance generated near-universal critical admiration and established the show as a premiere event.
Renewal: Five-season run concluded May 26, 2023. Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino confirmed the finale as the series' intended ending. (Variety)
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| Season | Released | BollyMeter | Critics | Audience | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 12017 · 8 eps | 17 March 2017 | 9.0 | 94% | 8.7/10 | MUST-WATCH |
| Season 22018 · 10 eps | 5 December 2018 | 8.8 | 92% | 8.7/10 | MUST-WATCH |
| Season 32019 · 8 eps | 6 December 2019 | 7.5 | 79% | 8.3/10 | WORTH-IT |
| Season 42022 · 8 eps | 17 February 2022 | 8.5 | 92% | 8.3/10 | MUST-WATCH |
| Season 52023 · 9 eps | 14 April 2023 | 9.0 | 96% | 8.5/10 | MUST-WATCH |
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Back in the day, you can’t decide you’re a performer and then just “start.” You have to earn a room, earn a laugh, and earn the right to take up space. The hour makes that the point from the first major beat, cutting from living-room consequence to stage ambition with the show’s
Full episode review →Midge walks into a room built for men, and the hour treats that mismatch like a physical object. The jokes come fast, but the air around them is colder. Every punchline lands over a question the episode keeps circling: does she get to be funny in public the way she can be careful
Full episode review →In a show built on timing, **this hour uses silence like a punchline**. The moment the room expects the next gag, the writing tightens around what people refuse to say. It is less about “winning” a stand-up set than about proving who gets to belong in the space where jokes happen
Full episode review →Midge **works a room with a clean, bright smile** and a practiced kind of nerve. In the middle of it, the hour keeps undercutting the fantasy of a “breakthrough” by showing the machinery around her, not just the spotlight on her. The writing lets the comedy land, then immediately
Full episode review →This hour nudges Midge into the part of show business that is less about jokes and more about power. The episode builds tension around how quickly status, money, and “who knows you” can decide who gets to be heard, then it makes Midge pay for trying to bargain with that system. B
Full episode review →A set goes wrong in a very specific way. The room does not just laugh or not laugh. It tests. Midge tries to control the night with craft and timing, but the hour keeps pulling her back into what she refuses to verbalize: that comedy is never only about the words. It is about per
Full episode review →The hour yanks the story from “a woman building a comedy career” into “a career built inside a messy social contract.” It keeps **Midge** in motion, but the show turns the spotlight to the systems around her: rooms, reputations, and the unspoken rules of who gets to be funny and
Full episode review →Midge keeps trying to turn her “I should not be doing this” panic into a workable act, and the episode leans hard on the gap between stage confidence and private dread. The hour uses a string of professional setbacks and personal truths to pressure-test who Midge becomes when the
Full episode review →Midge’s ambition keeps colliding with the room’s rules, and this episode turns that collision into a sequence of public humiliations that feel weirdly precise rather than purely cruel. The hour spends its best energy on performance mechanics, not just punchlines. When characters
Full episode review →Midge **makes a joke out of fear** and tries to turn the room into her ally, but the hour keeps yanking her back to consequences she cannot riff away. The episode is tight with endings, yet it never behaves like a neat victory lap. Instead it plays like a ledger: what she has ear
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