1/30/2024 0 Comments Imogen lloyd webber![]() Susie secures deals with a handful of producers while enlisting the aid of caddies to keep her informed. MAISEL Season 5 Episode 6, “The Testi-Roastial.” Photo credit: Philippe Antonello/Prime Videoįirstly, Stewart dives into one perfect day for Susie in 1970, when she scored three wins in quick succession - all on the golf course. ![]() Besides getting roasted, she’s being honored for her 30 years as a top talent manager in the industry, hence why it’s called a “testi-roastial.” Stewart Jones kicks off the festivities with a few Susie-themed cracks. Hats off to the makeup/hair team for their excellent work regarding the flash-forwards. Susie ( Alex Borstein) arrives in her car, her hair streaked with gray. It’s the who’s who in show business, with titans like Mike Carr ( Jason Ralph), Stewart Jones ( Sean Gunn), Aaron Lebowitz (Danny Strong), Ray Ortiz (Danny Garcia) and Carmine Streeto (Will Sasso) there to pay homage to the guest of honor. Kitchen staff at The Friars Club prepare for Susie’s big roast. We fast forward a few years later to 1990 in New York City, the furthest we’ve gone in the show, time-wise, thus far. Midge reveals her friendship with Susie lasted longer than any of her marriages combined. We learn that said woman is none other than Susie. Side note: it’s still jarring hearing pop culture references outside of the 1950s/1960s in these sequences. She tells the audience she just broke up with someone - a woman. We open with a flash-forward scene in 1985, wherein Midge ( Rachel Brosnahan) is in the middle of her stand-up. Ready to delve into “The Testi-Roastial”? Let’s get to it. Plus, it’s lovely to get a Susie-centric episode. I also love seeing where these characters are, particularly Susie and Midge, in the future. It might not be a conventional Maisel outing, episodic formula-wise, but it’s brilliantly written and fantastically structured, with stellar performances and the show’s trademark quippy dialogue in full force. Thankfully, near the episode’s end, we see the beginnings of a reconciliation between the long-time friends and professional partners. Additionally, we learn why Midge and Susie had a falling out. It zeroes in on Susie’s prolific career in show business, expertly weaving together flashback and flash-forward sequences interspersed between scenes of Susie getting roasted. Tits up! “The Testi-Roastial” is, hands down, the season’s best episode thus far. ![]() MaiselSeason 5 Episode 6, “The Testi-Roastial,” contains spoilers. A witty and dynamic read, this is a chick-lit novel for the social network age.DISCLAIMER: This recap of The Marvelous Mrs. However, the novel does not suffer at all from its style, thanks in large to the driving momentum of the communication and the plot. Read won't find what they are looking for in this book. Obviously, the novel lacks the benefits of characterisation, detail and scene-setting that are intrinsic to the usual narrative format, and anyone wanting a descriptive and layered Aside from the prologue and epilogue, this novel is told entirely in tweets, which makes for a fast and fun read. And over the course of a year the tweets fly back and forth between them as they share their problems and worries, successes and failures, including flings with movie-stars, near-misses with sportsmen, break-ups and new loves. With Stella based in New York from where she runs her struggling men's designer shoes business and Tuesday based in London where she is trying to make her mark in television, the two connect via Twitter. When Stella Cavill rescues Tuesday from a major fashion dilemma at the New Year's Eve party of media magnate Peter Mignon a new friendship emerges.
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