The credit song for Season 1, Episode 1 was Dave Edmunds' cover of Elvis Costello's Girls Talk. For the series finale, the closing credits song is Tegan And Sara's cover of the same song.
The opening chryon says "San Francisco 1965", but when Suzy tells Lenny Bruce that she can get him booked for club dates, he responds, "There are no more club dates. This, tonight was a fluke. They thought they booked Bruce Lee." The earliest anyone in the United States would have heard of Bruce Lee would have been September 1966, after Lee's debut as Kato in ABC's "The Green Hornet" (one month after Lenny Bruce died).
Miriam 'Midge' Maisel: I want a big life. I want to experience everything. I want to break every single rule there is. They say ambition is an unattractive trait in a woman. Maybe. But you know what's really unattractive? Waiting around for something to happen. Staring out a window, thinking the life you should be living is out there somewhere but not being willing to open the door and go get it. Even if someone tells you you can't. Being a coward is only cute in The Wizard of Oz.
Ok the first roughly five minutes were a bit depressing, though in a historical way I know why they they're there, but the climax of this episode had me rooting and clapping, I upset the dog. It was a lot like the first episode, which made it a great full circle except the first time she grabbed the mic it was in depression and desperation but tonight it was empowerment it was growth and the other side. The final few minutes also came back to what the show was in a way about ... friendship, which was nice. In a way this episode closed some open issues but in a subtle way. I was sad and a bit worried to watch the finale as you are with any finale but I go to bed happy.
