The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel didn't always have a five-season game plan

The Hollywood Reporter

"When you start out, you have an 'I hope we get a second year' game plan," says executive producer Daniel Palladino. "You never know. You sort of build a series. We’re always looking ahead when we come up with stories and, when we break a season, we’re always looking to where we could go. We always had a general endpoint in mind for the series, but it was somewhere at four or five or six or something like that. And it just seemed to fit in season five."

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