For it is the pure fantasy of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" that we've all come to see: Visually, it's a splendid swirl of an imaginary New York, practically vibrating with the desire to return back to a place most of us never experienced firsthand. So intense is its nostalgia and so backward are some of its worldviews that you could almost mistake it for a Make America Great Again rally, were it not for the show's intellectual underpinnings. Almost achingly, the show tries to make a case for this lost world, while also indicting it. Just about any character who isn't part of Midge's immediate realm (upper class and Jewish, mainly) never gets more than a bit part.