The most suspenseful moment in the whole season happens between Lenny Bruce and Miriam in episode five. She runs into her comedy confidant at a bar in Miami, where he is apparently living for the time being. He invites her to join him later that night at a staged party on live TV, which resembles the real-life show from the '60s Playboy Penthouse. Afterward, the two share some palpable sexual tension at a Cuban nightclub over dinner and dancing. They walk back to his "place," which turns out to be a motel-ish hotel room. They stand in the doorway for a bit, and it really feels like the moment many shippers, like myself, have been waiting for. After several minutes of thinly veiled small talk and intense stares, Midge opts to go back to her hotel in a cab. Lenny's parting words are, "Before I'm dead," maybe something will happen between them (a girl can dream). They have less time than they think, since Lenny Bruce is a real-life person who tragically died in 1966 from a drug overdose, and season three takes place in 1960.
