Season Five represents the final curtain call for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. After the previous four seasons detailed Midge’s trials and tribulations involved with becoming a famous stand-up comedian, she finds herself closer than ever before to realizing her dream. This doesn’t mean that success will come easily for Midge. She still proves to be her own worst enemy more than once, taking two steps back for every one step forward. Then there’s the ever-present sexism that permeates her line of work. In a male-dominated field, the men refuse to take Midge seriously. Her boss, Gordon Ford, hires her to balance out his all-male writer’s room but mainly wants to sleep with her. And when she auditions for Jack Paar’s show, the producer doesn’t get Midge. It’s enough to make a scrappy, no self-pity woman cry, which she does at one point.