She’s back. We waited a year, and it’s finally here. Ten new episodes of The Marvellous Mrs Maisel, in Technicolor glory, have made their way on to Amazon Prime.

In this period of political upheaval, the ability to escape into a bright and brilliant world of laughter should not be dismissed out of hand — and thankfully, the second series of this hit show does not disappoint.

As with last season, we see the whip-smart Miriam (“Midge”) Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) trying to navigate the treacherous byways of the New York comedy circuit.

Together with her manager, Susie Myerson (Alex Borstein), she faces down numerous obstacles, including chauvinistic male comics, unscrupulous club owners, and suspicious family members, especially her parents (played to perfection by Tony Shalhoub and Marin Hinkle). In settings including New York, Paris and a Catskills Bungalow Colony, Midge grapples with old relationships, while cautiously testing the waters with new ones.

The cinematography is stunning, although one imagines that New York in the late ’50s was not quite as colourful in reality. The rhetoric is rapid, but remarkable rewarding — those enjoying the quick-fire quips in Mrs Maisel may well be reminded of Gilmore Girls, and with good reason, given that both shows were created by the same person, Amy Sherman-Palladino.

A 30-second exchange in one of the episodes sums up the show in its entirety.

In the scene, a triumphant Joel Maisel — Miriam’s estranged husband — is celebrating the family business’s purchase of its premises.

Standing on a chair, the energised but incredibly overworked young man tells his staff: “I anticipate dropping dead on this spot.

“But I own this spot, I get to!”

Standing at the back of the room, a friend of Joel’s, observing, remarks; “such a strange mixture of happiness and horror”, at which a company secretary turns towards him and says sweetly: “Oh, you’re clearly not Jewish, dear.”

This is the show in a nutshell.

Everyone can enjoy it — it’s as funny and entertaining as you’d expect it to be. But only Jews will understand and enjoy every single reference in it, from the regular use of Yiddish phrases to the scene in shul during Yom Kippur vidui.

This is a show that is openly, unapologetically, about us and for us. That, perhaps, is one of the reasons why it is so easy to love.

Seasons one and two of ‘The Marvellous Mrs Maisel’ are available on Amazon Prime Video