The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has finished its run with season 5 — here is The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline explained for the whole series. Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel stars Rachel Brosnahan as Miriam "Midge" Maisel, a Jewish New York City housewife who becomes a stand-up comic after he husband Joel (Michael Zegen) leaves her for his secretary. Alex Borstein also stars as Susie Myerson, Midge's manager, Tony Shalhoub as Midge's father, Abe Weissman, and Marin Hinkel as Midge's mother Rose Weissman.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline spans the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s but the series also uses numerous flashbacks to before the events of season 1 depicting the beginning of Midge and Joel's on-again-off-again marriage. Midge was born Miriam Weissman in 1933, and she attended Bryn Mawr College in the early 1950s, where she majored in Russian literature. Midge met Joel there and they married in 1954. The Maisels also had two young children, Ethan and Esther. Joel was a vice president at Tri-Borough Plastics who had ambitions of becoming a stand-up comedian, but he was secretly having an affair with his secretary, Penny Pann.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 1 (September 1958 - November 1958)

The first three episodes in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline take place around Yom Kippur 1958, which was Tuesday, September 23 - Wednesday, September 24. A couple of nights before Yom Kippur, Midge accompanies Joel to a successful stand-up gig at the Gaslight but she later learns Joel's act was stolen from Bob Newhart. Joel bombs at his next comedy gig and he leaves Midge after confessing his affair with his secretary. Devastated and blamed by her parents for the breakup, a drunken Midge takes the stage at the Gaslight and performs a stand-up comedy act before she's arrested for indecency.

Midge meets comedian Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby) in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline, who was also arrested for obscenity. Susie bails Midge out and Mrs. Maisel bails out Lenny Bruce, the next morning. Joel and Midge announce their separation to their respective parents and a family dinner goes awry. Midge returns to the Gaslight and performs another set, only to be arrested a second time. Lenny returns Midge's favor and bails her out of jail. The rest of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 1 spans the end of September to November 1958, with part of the finale happening at Midge and Joel's son, Ethan's, 4th birthday party in November.

Midge moves back home with her parents and Joel gets an apartment with Penny before he winds up living with his parents, Moishe (Kevin Pollack) and Shirley (Caroline Aaron). Susie becomes Midge's manager and Mrs. Maisel begins honing her stand-up comedy show into a "tight 10" minutes, although she briefly quits stand-up to perform at cocktail parties. At this point in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline, Midge also gets a job at B. Altman department store while Abe is recruited for a top-secret project at Bell Labs.

Midge also makes an enemy of popular comedienne Sophie Lennon (Jane Lynch) after she mocks Lennon on stage. Joel quits his job at Tri-Borough Plastics while Rose, traumatized by the changes in her life, leaves her family and goes to Paris. Joel watches Midge perform at the Gaslight and is dejected at being the butt of many of her jokes, but he also realizes Mrs. Maisel is great at stand-up.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 2 (December 1958 - November 1959)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline for season 2 spans about a year and is broken up into three acts. Midge and Abe realize Rose has gone to Paris and follow her. Abe remains in Paris with Rose for several days before he convinces her to return to New York City. Meanwhile, Midge, who is demoted at B. Altman, begins performing at other comedy clubs besides the Gaslight. Joel goes to work for his parents' clothing and textile factory, Maisel & Roth, and he begins fixing Moishe and Shirley's dirty finances. The first three Mrs. Maisel season 2 episodes take place during the winter and spring of 1959.

Episodes 4 - 6 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline take place during the summer of 1959 with the Weissmans and the Maisels going on their annual retreat to Steiner Mountain Resort in the Catskills. Posing as a plumber, Susie follows Midge to the Catskills to secure her comedy gigs. Midge meets Dr. Benjamin Ettenberg (Zachary Levi, who plays the DCEU's Shazam!), who briefly becomes her fiancé. Abe also accidentally sees Midge's act and is furious that his daughter is now a stand-up comedian. Abe gets more bad news when he finds out his son, Noah (Will Brill), has also been lying, and he's secretly an analyst for the CIA.

The final stretch of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline for season 2 takes the series into the end of 1959. Midge finally reveals that she's a stand-up comic to the Maisels and Weissmans at Yom Kippur dinner, marking one year since Joel left her. Susie and Midge go on a comedy tour of Washington DC and Philadelphia (where Zachary Levi's Shazam! is set) while Joel decides he wants to open a nightclub.

After Sophie Lennon uses her influence to bump Midge to the worst slot in a telethon, Mrs. Maisel gives a gangbusters TV performance. Midge also meets and befriends singer Shy Baldwin (Leroy McClain). A dejected Abe quits both his tenure at Columbia University and Bell Labs. Sophie shocks Susie by asking her to become her new manager. Midge accepts an offer from Shy Baldwin to be his opening act on his six-month world tour, which sets up the major story arc for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 3.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 3 (December 1959 - June 1960)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline for season 3 is more compressed, spanning about 6 months of massive changes for Midge and her family. Midge performs at a Christmas 1959 USO show while Joel buys a nightclub in Chinatown, only to learn there's an illegal gambling operation in the basement, when Mrs. Maisel season 3 begins. Joel also meets Mei Lin (Stephanie Hsu), who becomes his new girlfriend. Susie begins splitting her time managing Midge and Sophie Lennon, who wants to become a Broadway actress. Abe and Rose vacate their Upper West Side apartment and move in with Moishe and Shirley in Queens.

Before she leaves for her tour, Midge and Joel's divorce is finalized in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline. Midge and Susie then fly to Las Vegas with Shy Baldwin and his tour. At Midge's request, Joel s her in Vegas and, after a drunken night together, they find out they got married again. Shy's tour then moves to Miami a few weeks later. Abe and Rose can no longer stand living at the Maisels and Midge at the Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach. Midge also grows closer to Shy and finds out that he's gay, a secret known only by Shy's stern manager, Reggie (Sterling K. Brown).

The final two episodes of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline for season 3 happen after a two-month time jump, which brings the series up to May and June 1960. Midge and Susie are back in New York hustling gigs while Shy recuperates from "exhaustion." Sophie Lennon's Broadway play, Miss Julie, opens, which she purposefully bombs after the insane Sophie loses confidence on stage. Susie then quits as Lennon's manager. However, Susie, who has a gambling addiction, loses all of Midge's earnings. Meanwhile, Joel's nightclub grand opening is a success and Midge meets Mei. Abe receives a job offer from the Village Voice to review Broadway plays and theater.

Rose begins a new career as a matchmaker, which leads to Benjamin finally confronting Midge about ending their engagement. Midge arranges to buy her old apartment from Moishe using her earnings from her Shy Baldwin tour as collateral. Susie leaves Midge before her gig opening for Shy at the Apollo Theater so that she can burn down her late mother's house for the insurance money to pay back Midge. However, Midge misconstrues Reggie's advice to "talk about Shy" on stage and Mrs. Maisel inadvertently outs Shy to the audience. As a result, Midge and Susie are left on the airport tarmac after Reggie fires Mrs. Maisel from Shy Baldwin's tour.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 4 (June 1960 - November 1961)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline for season 4 picks immediately after the season 3 finale. Midge has to pick up the pieces of her career and face itting to her family that she was fired. Meanwhile, Susie has to find a way to acquire Midge's money when she asks for it to pay back Moishe for her apartment. Season 4, episode 2 then jumps ahead a month into July, with Midge and the Weissmans moved back into the Upper West Side and facing money problems. Susie struggles with Midge's demands for a new direction in her stand-up career while Joel learns his Chinese landlords aren't happy with his nightclub's success.

Midge gets a break in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline when she is hired as the Wolford's new comic emcee, however, things aren't going well for Susie. When Gaslight employee Jackie dies, she's distraught and stays at Midge's. Asher calls Abe to tell him that the FBI has opened an investigation on the topic of his theater review set in the 20s depicting two boys vandalizing a federal building. Abe makes things worse when he implicates Asher out of anger for him dating Rose in the past. Susie finds some luck when Frank and Nicky find her a cheap business office and Midge manages to improve conditions at the Wolford.

Sophie Lennon tries to get Susie to revive her career while Mei continually dodges meeting Joel's parents. Susie books Sophie on The Gordon Ford Show to resounding success. Meanwhile in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline, Midge is forced to go to Shy's wedding reception and she's asked to sign a lucrative NDA, but refuses. Rose, whose matchmaking business is booming, finds disparaging articles about Midge and worries the bad press will affect her business. Finally, things once again come to a head between Sophie and Midge when Sophie hires her as a warm-up for her game show, and the end result sees Midge walk offstage.

Toward the end of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline for season 4, Midge performs at a JFK rally, but her cheating husband jokes upset Jackie Kennedy. She faces further humiliation when Rose is hypnotized onstage by an illusionist and performs her Wolford monologue. Joel finds out that Mei is pregnant, and he tells Moishe, who has a heart attack. Lenny Bruce gets Midge a job as his replacement opening for Tony Bennett, but she refuses. The two hook up after a police raid on Wolford causes them to flee. Lenny rebuffs Midge for not taking the job, and she ends up walking home in a blizzard and catching hypothermia.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 5 (November 1961 - 2005)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline experiences a huge jump in the show's final season as it looks ahead to Midge's successes. However, the bulk of the story takes place between 1961 and 1962. Nearly every episode of the season contains a flash forward. Midge recovers from hypothermia and Moishe from his heart attack. Midge agrees to stop turning down opening act jobs and Joel tells everyone Mei is pregnant, and they're getting married. However, Mei's pregnancy is cut short and she leaves him. Talk show host Gordon Ford decides to hire Midge as a writer after a standout performance at the Wolford, but finds difficulty in a male-dominated writers' room.

Things heat up between Rose and her rival matchmakers, culminating in one of them burning her tea room down. Luckily head Matchmaker Benedetta is arrested and they form a truce. Things between Midge and Gordon get ugly as he makes a at her, despite being married, and she rebuffs him. Moishe and Shirley reconcile when Shirley finds herself grieving the loss of her unborn grandchild. After Gordon refuses to include "Diddy Doo" diaper cream as a sponsor, Midge is arrested for assaulting an executive of Diddy Doo, but she luckily gets off. In addition, Susie's mob connections and debt become an increasing problem that Joel and Midge argue over.

Comic TV star Danny Stevens guest stars on The Gordon Ford Show and is so impressed with Midge that he offers her a lucrative writing job. Gordon sees this and decides to finally make Midge's pay equal to that of the male writers. However, she's soon distraught after Jack Paar's producer won't sign her to his TV show despite her stellar performance in his comedy showcase, hiring James Howard instead. Meanwhile, Abe is frustrated that Ethan isn't a Weissman "genius" child, and turns his focus to Esther instead. This eventually leads him to apologize to Midge for paying more attention to Noah when they were children.

The final moments of the '60s in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline occur in the penultimate episode. Midge visits her alma mater and retrieves the hidden message she wrote to her future self: all it says is, "Don't!". Gordon's wife Hedy, who had a prior relationship with Susie, gets Princess Margaret on the show. However, Hedy insists that Midge take credit for writing Margaret's jokes. In turn, Midge asks Hedy to get her on the show. Susie is arrested for disorderly conduct, distraught over Hedy, but is bailed out by Midge. Midge gets her Gordon Ford appearance, but hijacks the show and is subsequently fired. However: the audience loves her.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline is somewhat confused in the final season, as there are various flash-forwards. 1965 sees Lenny Bruce so involved with his addiction that he can't perform. In 1973, Midge pours money into Rose's matchmaking business, which is now failing, and convinces Susie to book an Australian tour. 1981 sees a grown-up Esther Maisel as a scientist who discusses her maternal issues with her therapist, citing that Abe was the only one who understood her.

In 1984 Ethan is studying to be a rabbi, and his fiancee remarks on her dislike for Midge. Joel is in prison in 1987 for protecting Midge by making a deal with the mob against Susie. Midge finds out about this in 1990 and fires her. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel timeline ends in 2005, seeing Midge in her 70s and living alone in a luxurious apartment. She calls Susie, and the two watch Jeopardy! together.