That’s the ethos that Amy Sherman-Palladino’s hit series sharply turns on its own head. The Midge we see defending her toddler’s potential fivehead has, so far, recreated her mother’s own picturesque life to a T — apartment on the Upper West Side, early morning beauty routine, daily brisket. She’s tried the “pretty makes you happy” life, but after her husband Joel (Michael Zegen) abruptly leaves her, she realizes her mother’s cookie-cutter lifestyle isn’t going to work for her. What does work? Comedy. Or, at least, one day God-willing it will, and much of the remaining episodes put the two Maisel women in opposition. By season 3, however, the woman who once called Midge’s nightgown “not thinning” is seemingly ready to follow in her daughter’s footsteps — until you realize she’s been going through her own journey of independence this whole time.