jnm123 wrote:In the first 3 episodes, I could immediately see the similarities with Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (MMM), and then I found out that both shows share the same producer, Daniel Goldfarb.
Cathy2 wrote:jnm123 wrote:In the first 3 episodes, I could immediately see the similarities with Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (MMM), and then I found out that both shows share the same producer, Daniel Goldfarb.
Very keen observation, I'm impressed.
Now that you recognize the MMM style seeping into Julia Child, then I can wait until I get around to seeing it. I liked MMM more early on, it does not have as much a must-see for me presently. So far this season, I have seen only the first episode. I am sure eventually I will get through it.
Regards,
Cathy2
spinynorman99 wrote:Cathy2 wrote:jnm123 wrote:In the first 3 episodes, I could immediately see the similarities with Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (MMM), and then I found out that both shows share the same producer, Daniel Goldfarb.
Very keen observation, I'm impressed.
Now that you recognize the MMM style seeping into Julia Child, then I can wait until I get around to seeing it. I liked MMM more early on, it does not have as much a must-see for me presently. So far this season, I have seen only the first episode. I am sure eventually I will get through it.
Regards,
Cathy2
Maisel has a healthy budget and matching production values. Julia looks like community theater.
at newyorker.com, Helen Rosner wrote:Child’s great feats of charisma (in life as well as in the world of the show)—such as attracting an entourage of die-hard friends (including the radiant Bebe Neuwirth as Avis DeVoto) and fast-talking a skeptical WGBH producer into green-lighting the show—happen offscreen. Her most pronounced moments of self-possession arise from her relationship with Alice Naman (Brittany Bradford), a fictional young producer at WGBH who appears to be the only woman—and the only Black person—in an office of interchangeable white men. Alice gets her own plotline, a sweet little arc of professional ambition running up against romantic prospects, with Julia serving as a bit of a fairy godmother. The real-life Julia was remarkably progressive on social-justice issues for a woman of her class and era, but there is something glib about the Alice story line, as if the show created “Julia” to create a Black woman, whole cloth, just for its heroine to mentor.
at newyorker.com, Helen Rosner wrote:By softening its heroine, by making her into an underdog beset by self-doubt and secret little sorrows, “Julia” tips the scales against its own argument for the value of her celebrity—and her work.
jnm123 wrote:The only aspect of this series that aren't up to my standards are the actual food shots/sequences, unlike the Julie/Julia movie or Stanley Tucci's Searching For Italy. The food filming is glancing at best, which is odd because I think it would have put the show over the top. It was a conscious decision that HBO Max must have made, a curious one to be sure.
Community theater?! Hardly. Sarah Lancashire (Last Tango in Halifax), David Hyde Pierce and Bebe Neuwirth are all solid. I am sure that some creative license is taken with the story line, but that's not surprising.
The texts and emails started right away. Earlier this spring, when Julia, an HBO Max original series “inspired by Julia Child’s extraordinary life and her long-running television series, The French Chef,” premiered, I began getting questions from writers, editors, colleagues and friends. Did that actually happen? No one was writing to ask me about Julia Child—there are people out there far more expert on her life than I—but about Judith. Judith Jones.
As a doctoral student in the fall of 2012, I was lucky enough to be in the room when the Julia Child Foundation came calling on one of my professors: Judith Jones—who edited, among many, many other authors, Julia Child—had, at the age of 88, just retired after more than 50 years as an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, and the Foundation wanted help collecting an oral history of her remarkable, but little known, life and work. Judith had long been my hero, grad school was a bore, and I wanted in on the project. Unbidden, I threw my hat in the ring.
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jnm123 wrote:In the first 3 episodes, I could immediately see the similarities with Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and then I found out that both shows share the same producer, Daniel Goldfarb.
It's light entertainment and very enjoyable. If I wanted a documentary I'd watch something else. I think this one, however, has a ton more substance than Julie & Julia and I could see them competently milking two or three seasons out of this easily. Writing is very good.