‘MAISEL’ CREATOR GETS GUILD’S LEAR TRIBUTE

Amy Sherman-palladino will receive the Norman Lear Achievement Award

For close to two consecutive years, Amy Sherman-palladino’s professional life has been chock-full of success.

She made history in September, when she became the first woman in the Emmy ceremony’s 70-year history to collect both comedy writing and directing kudos for her Amazon series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” And at the PGA kudo ceremony Jan. 19, she will receive the Norman Lear Achievement Award.

The show, about an Upper West Side housewife who ventures into standup comedy after her picture-perfect marriage falls apart, was a break- out hit in 2017, also scoring Golden Globe wins for comedy and lead actress, and a Peabody Award.

Sherman-palladino earned her first Producers Guild Award in January 2018 when “Maisel” won the TV comedy series trophy. And earlier this month, “Maisel” star Rachel Brosnahan took home her second Globe for the Amazon series.

A loving homage to the ’50s, “Maisel” is a departure from the WASPY, Connecticut world Sherman-palladino created for “Gilmore Girls” on network TV and the Netflix revival “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.” The series and its rapid-fire patter is directly drawn from the producer- director-writer’s childhood.

“I grew up listening to Mel Brooks and all of that Jewish rhythm,” she told Variety in 2017.

As with “Gilmore Girls,” every “Maisel” script is packed with blink-and-you’ll-miss-’em pop- culture references. But while the series is set in the 1950s, its feminist themes of resilience and self- empowerment are still relevant to today.

“The story I really wanted to do was about a woman in the 1950s who didn’t hate her life,” Sherman-palladino told Variety. “We’ve seen that a lot — a woman, staring out the window drinking her sherry, popping her second olive and smoking her cigarettes. I wanted to do a story about a woman who thought she scored, made it. She has it all and then ‘Bam!’ It all falls apart, and in falling apart she discovers an ambition and a need to speak and a voice that she frankly didn’t know was there.”