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Amy Sherman-Palladino cashes her blank Amazon check on a transatlantic TV show about ballet. C’est merveilleux!
The television fan raised on Gilmore Girls and still demanding justice for Bunheads is intimately familiar with the tropes of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s aesthetic universe: fast talking, overflowing pop-culture references, and parental dynamics pulled so taut they could be plucked like a harpsichord string. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, about a a Joan Rivers–esque comedian finding her way through the 1960s, pursued that sensibility to new extremes — exuberantly retro sets, intricately designed tracking shots, getting Barbra Streisand to license one of her charm songs — and won Amazon Prime Video scores of awards. The series introduces its two protagonists, a blue-blooded and put-upon head of the New York ballet named Jack (Luke Kirby) and Geneviève (a stylish but messy Parisian Charlotte Gainsbourg), dancing in a nightclub while arguing over whether Aaron Copeland or Tchaikovsky would win in a fight.
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