The transcending trailblazer

看The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel的时候很想爱这个剧，以Joan Rivers为原型的Mrs. Maisel聪明美丽，天才型comic，在50年代男女不平等的大环境下开拓出自己的事业，如何能不爱？但是我犹豫不决。直到今天翻到2018年Emily Nussbaum在纽约客上的剧评才觉得她一下点中了我犹豫的根源：“In “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” sexism exists. But it never gets inside Midge. Her marvellousness comes from the fact that she’s immune, a self-adoring alpha whose routines feel like feminist ted talks, with some “fucks” thrown in.” “In “Mrs. Maisel,” Rivers’s more unsettling qualities—her vengefulness, her perception of women as competitors, her eating disorder—all get displaced onto Midge’s foe, fat-joke Sophie, who lives in an opulent French-themed apartment, like the one Rivers lived in, collects furs, and, like the real Joan, wanted to be a serious actress. It’s as if Rivers has been split into good Joan and bad Joan, because it’s too hard to make such a caustic trailblazer seem cute, to acknowledge how much her success derived from being shaped by misogyny, not from transcending it.”