Look, She Made a Hat is the seventh episode of the second season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Benjamin opens Midge's eyes to the New York art scene, and she ends up knowing more about art than she realizes. The Maisel and Weissman families come together for a tension-filled Yom Kippur dinner on the anniversary of Joel and Midge's separation. Meanwhile, a reluctant Susie turns to her family for help in advancing her career.

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• Rachel Brosnahan as Miriam "Midge" Maisel
• Alex Borstein as Susie Myerson
• Michael Zegen as Joel Maisel
• Marin Hinkle as Rose Weissman
• Kevin Pollak as Moishe Maisel
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• Tony Shalhoub as Abe Weissman

• Zachary Levi as Benjamin
• Rufus Sewell as Declan Howell
• Caroline Aaron as Shirley Maisel
• Will Brill as Noah
• Justine Lupe as Astrid
• Joel Johnstone as Archie Cleary
• Brian Tarantina as Jackie
• Emily Bergl as Tessie
• Daniel Stewart Sherman as Artie
• PJ Marshall as Skint
• Lynn Cohen as Bubbabosia

(in order of appearance)

• Leah Curney as Artsy Woman
• Brian Myers Cooper as Art Patron #1
• Carine Montbertrand as Art Patron #2
• Tania Asnes as Agnes Reynolds
• Noriko Sato as Japanese Woman
• Devon Diffenderfer as Delivery Boy
• Teddy Coluca as Manny
• Cynthia Darlow as Mrs. Moskowitz
• Charissa Hogeland as Florence
• Anni Krueger as Velma
• Caitlin Wilayto as Julie
• Alison Smith as Jane Jacobs
• Jean Brassard as Pere
• William Ryall as Manfred
• Mark Aldrich as Bartender
• Elizabeth Loyacano as Customer
• Colby Minifie as Ginger
• Megan Mcginnis as Loula
• Joshua Zisholtz as Male Customer
• Joel Rooks as Lutzi
• Adam B. Shapiro as Cantor
• Bern Cohen as Rabbi Krinsky
• Matteo & Nunzio Pascale as Ethan
• Matilda Szydagis as Zelda
• Juan Carlos Díaz as Drunk Guy

• Kasey & Morgan Scheuermann as Esther Maisel
• Unknown as Franz Kline
• Unknown as Robert Motherwell

(in order of appearance)

• Crespi Exhibition
• Maisel & Roth Garment Company
• The Cedar Tavern
• Benjamin's Duplex
• B. Altman's Department Store
  • The Revlon Counter
  • The Phone Room
• The Gaslight Café
• Lutzi's Meats & Poultry
• The Myerson House
• Declan's Studio
• Temple Shearith Israel
• Susie's Apartment
• 385 Riverside Drive
  • Apartment 12C

• At the end of the opening scene in the gallery you see an Asian woman with long dark hair who says, “Nice ladder” and then takes a bite of an apple. This is a joke on Yoko Ono, famous artist who was married to John Lennon. She did a well known piece with a ladder and magnifying glass. The Apple she is eating is probably a play on the Beatles Apple symbol of their music company. (Source: IMDb)
• This episode's title is a tribute to composer Stephen Sondheim. It is a paraphrase of a line from the song “Finishing the Hat” from his musical Sunday in the Park with George; Sondheim titled the second volume of his collected lyrics “Look, I Made A Hat.” (Source: IMDb)
• Susie calls her brother and brother-in-law “Leopold and Loeb”. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were two students who in 1924 kidnapped and murdered a 14-year-old boy, just to prove they could do it. (Source: IMDb)
• A real-life character like the incredibly outrageous, charismatic Declan Howell could actually have been found in the “Cedar Tavern” where Benjamin takes Midge. Until it was taken apart and its interior sold in 2006, it was an infamous haven for writers like Jack Kerouac and abstract expressionist artists of the era, such as Jackson Pollock, whose name is mentioned in this episode in connection to Declan, and serves as a likely model of the alcoholic, dissipated artist. Also noted in this legendary NYU/Greenwich Village-area tavern are the eminent artists Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline. In addition, another likely habitue of the Cedar Tavern whom Midge encounters is real-life urban activist Jane Jacobs. (Source: IMDb)

DECLAN: It came with a cat.
MIDGE: Came with a hat.
DECLAN: Ah, that's much better than a cat.
– S2E7

DECLAN: Well, that's the way it is. If you… if you want to do something great… you want to take something as far as it'll go… you can't have everything. You lose… family. Sense of home. But then… look at what exists.
– S2E7

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