Kind of Bleu

Kind of Bleu
Season	3
Episode	6
Time period	May 1960
Credits
Released	December 6, 2019
Written by	Amy Sherman-Palladino Noah Gardenswartz (executive story editor) Jordan Temple (story editor)
Directed by	Amy Sherman-Palladino
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Kind of Bleu is the 24^th episode overall of Amazon Prime's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the 6^th episode of Season 3. It was released on Amazon Prime on December 6, 2019.

Synopsis

Abe and Rose find respite in the Queens while visiting Midge. Joel and Mei squabble over a liquor license for the bar. Midge helps Shy out of a scrape.

Plot

The Weissmans temporarily escape Queens and the Maisels' noisily casual lifestyle and visit Midge in Miami. She insists they watch her act, though Rose gets drunk during her set. Joel's liquor license predicament is quickly resolved, thanks to Mei, but it stirs an argument that appears to break them up. Initially skeptical investors are impressed with Sophie's acting ability during rehearsals. When the rented theater for Sophie's play cancels on them, Susie's thug friends, Nicky and Frank, use their "influence" to obtain another venue with better terms. Midge helps Shy Baldwin after he suffers a nasty scrape, and keeps his homosexuality secret, which would ruin his career if exposed. In Miami, Abe visits his old playwright friend, Asher Friedman, who was blacklisted early in the 1950s and now runs a beachside bait shop. Abe later writes an article about the injustice.

Episode Notes

Music

• Good Morning performed by Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds & Donald O’Connor (from "Singin' in the Rain")
  • Synchronized swimmers perform in the hotel pool; the morning after Midge and Lenny’s date, Midge is seen sleeping on a lounge chair.
• That's What Simple Folks Do performed by Julie Andrews and Richard Burton (from the musical "Camelot")
  • In the background while Susie talks to Sophie at rehearsals.
• Don't Monkey With Broadway performed by Fred Astaire, George Murphy & The MGM Studio Orchestra
  • Frank and Nicky get the Barrymore theater for Susie.
• On a Slow Boat To China performed by Kay Starr
  • Midge and Shy go sailing.
• One Less Angel performed by Shy Baldwin (Darius de Haas)
  • Abe, Rose, Susie and Midge watch Shy Baldwin perform, where both Susie and Rose are drunk and Rose decides to drunkenly dance to the music.
• This Here performed by Bobby Timmons
  • Joel and Archie visit various clubs, with the last one, they end up having a fight inside.
• No One Has To Know performed by Shy Baldwin (Darius de Haas)
  • Shy performs a stool set, having been secretly looked after by Midge, who had found him beaten up on his boat; Midge and Rose watch his performance in the audience.
• I Found Out performed by John Lennon
  • End credits.