‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Finale: We Bet You Didn't Catch These Hidden Details

In that moment, Brosnahan says her final “Thank you and goodnight!” while a jubilant Midge takes in the applause. She then catches Gordon’s eye, who is standing over at his desk, completely in awe of his “lady writer.” He then gestures for her to come over to the couch for an interview. 

“Folks, I don’t think you got a proper introduction to this lady,” he says. “And I’m going to remedy that right now. Ladies and gentlemen, making her first, but definitely not last, appearance on The Gordon Ford Show, the magnificent, the magical, the marvelous Mrs. Maisel!”

Midge—and Brosnahan—barely hold it together, as Brosnahan later reveals that she sobbed when Reid Scott (Gordon Ford) said that line at the final table read. 

What’s interesting is that even though Midge told Susie she didn’t care if Susie needed to call in a favor to get her on the show, it really was Midge who made her big moment happen. When all the cards seemed stack against her, Midge came through for herself when it meant the most.

“[The show] doesn’t claim that success will make you happy,” Brosnahan said in response to moderator Maureen Lee Lenker asking about Midge’s ending. “Or that having it all will fulfill every need you have. But Midge and Susie did what they set out to do.”

The episode doesn’t end there. At the end of the segment, Gordon whispers “you’re fired” into Midge’s ear, but she’s fine with it. She accomplished her goal. Susie—with tears in her eyes—knows it too. 

Then we rewind six months to snowy New York as Midge and Lenny sit inside the Wo Hop Chinese restaurant. It’s right after Midge and Lenny slept together, when he said he was going to take her out for some really terrible Chinese food. While finishing dinner, he opens her fortune cookie and tells her it says, “The spotlight waits for you center stage. All you have to do is step up and claim it. Once you do, everyone will know who you are, they will know your wit, intellect, smile, great expressive eyes, they will be helpless to your charms…” Midge realizes he’s making it up, but Lenny says, “Mark my words, in the very near, not so distant future, you will be paying for Chinese food.” She takes the fortune from him, which has only those lucky numbers on it.