
It changed faster than many of its characters talked, a rapid-fire delivery that creator Amy Sherman Palladino was known for. At first: a beautiful rich bride, then a distraught, drunk wife and mother brought down by her (aspiring, awful comic) husband's sudden infidelity, then a fledging star stepping into the stoplight, unexpectedly.
It was "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and from the beginning, it was one woman's journey. And from the beginning, we wanted the journey to be a little more meaningful and the title character to be a little more than she was capable of being.