unbreakable kimmy schmidt netflix television show

Cool thing is the country bumpkin stuff isn't the main focus so much as, as has been pointed out, satire of oppression, class dynamics, etc.

Can someone confirm that Xanthippe also plays Kymmi

nope

Kymmi is actually Kiernan Shipka who plays Jon Hamm's character's daughter on Mad Men

I don't understand, why would they get the same actress to play two different characters?

I guess that Netflix Budget ain't NBC budget

they aren't the same actress? unless you're having a larft

Idk man it's just kinda bizarre

Like they didn't think anyone would notice

Xanthippe and kymmi never appear in the same episode together

And then at then end in dernsville kymmi disappears

Martin Short was kind of freaking me out. Funny though! Ever since Inner Space he has been on this body horror comedy thing.

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This show is pretty awesome! I loved 30 Rock and this has that same rhythm of comedy to it, it's so freakin' quick and snappy.

Loved them pretending to be rich in that expensive restaurant, with the cardboard laptop and the faux-French "Beyonce'"

"Who is coming to this party? Fancy Manhattan-os? They're going to notice that my cummerbund is just a piece of automobile tire."

"I've been watching you, Kimmy"
"I know, that's why I was picking my nose earlier, to gross you out. Burnt!"

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Oh god, the Ghostbusters references.

this is excellent, the "passing" theme is really well integrated imo

The Bob Dole t-shirt in the headshot

yup

I liked the photoshop she did for their Christmas card, where he husband was shaking someone's hand and the hand wasn't cropped out.

Kind of feel like going to Olive Garden. This show is insidious.

I like Tim Blake Nelson in this! He is taking an Earnest-type character one step further into realistic profound stupidity -- and that was offputting at first, but ended up being very, very funny to me.

I like Tim Blake Nelson in this!

Agreed! Anyone who hates on "GRATEFUL CAT MARRIES HERO COP" is some kinda commie.

OK I can't read most of this because I'm only like 5 episodes in but I really really like it. Titus! He's my favorite character in forever. "Ok, I'm not a handyman but that was my nickname one summer on Fire Island." Also, "Pinot Noir" was amazing. I love Carol Kane so so much and Jane K is great. It's sort of hit or miss for me still but a lot of fun overall.

"fave part so far was "Hashbrown: no filter" - Yes, so good!

I watched and definitely enjoyed this muchly. I can't say i unequivocally loved the show - the race/stereotype jokes are troubling, and there were a lot of bits that just died (Tim Blake Nelson) but I can.. almost... forgive them because this show is darker, unapologetically feminist (maybe?) and thematically ambitious than 30 Rock

I guess I want to applaud them for trying to do better than a just being a joke machine (for instance, as much as Krakowski's Native American backstory has been criticized, I actually liked it) and the themes about overcoming trauma and the eternal disguise are pretty well played. there is some risk taking here that wouldn't have made it to network TV, and i bet the next season - designed only for Netflix - will be even better

but I also want to slap them for being so goddamn lazy about so many jokes, so many lampshaded excuses... ("that's still racist, Kimmy!" "of course I know what an airplane is, I was in the Air Force!")

the arthur chu piece linked in the long duk dong thread is pretty on point, though I don't know if I would trust Fey & co. to actually use his suggestion of making Dong even more of a stereotype and turning it inside out without completely messing it up
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2015/03/race_in_unbreakable_kimmy_schmidt_how_critics_are_missing_the_point.html

"What white nonsense is this?!"

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What the heck

holy shit

everything about that is really sad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gveXb1nTdBo

:(

a little B-I-T of a J-E-R-K

Spotted on FB:

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i believe it's a 'shop

shop or... they own a color printer

like how implausible is it someone taped a piece of paper to a wine bottle

so you're saying there's a whole shop full of 'em!?

Enjoyed the last stretch of episodes less than the beginning tbh. Tina Fey's bad lawyers schtick wasn't all that funny and Hamm's act had the dramatic weight of an SNL skit. The show is the best when it's about Kimmy's weird community of misfits rather than her origin story.

You know the bad lawyers were the prosecutors from the OJ trial, right

that was pretty funny to me, and i had to wonder what percentage of the audience had no idea of who they were portraying.

i dont know how i knew but i KNEW the reverend would be played by jon hamm.

I got that they were OJ trial lawyers, which only made it seem that much more like a bad SNL skit.

Kimmy 's whole 90s reference shtick is a bad SNL skit!

your sitcom finale didn't have any dramatic weight it was sad

thought last few eps had too much dramatic weight - the thought of hamm's character escaping justice (which, yes, of course he wasn't going to, but) made me so anxious and angry, and the ineptitude of the lawyers was so infuriating, that i missed a few lols. [love the series overall though]

Okay I had the same response! I thought I was just being a weirdo but the inept lawyers were stressing me out SO BAD. Thank you, stevie. I feel less alone now.

I think it taps into the thing about, you know, the actual crime that inspired the show being so awful. And the show treats that pretty okay for the most part, I think - not getting cheap yuks out of it, hinting that Kimmy's actual experience was awful and kind of bleak for a sitcom - but letting Hamm off the hook would've just compounded any gross leanings the show has in this regard, somehow. Like, the dramatic underpinning of the show needs Hamm to be punished, otherwise its too cruel to Kimmy and her experience and denies her the opportunity of closure and moving forward.

I've decided I would like a prequel show that is just Titus and the landlady and their adventures before Kimmy appeared

would watch

television is getting a decent dose of Carol Kane right now but we really need more

Carol Kane is a renewable comedy resource

yeah i thought the last few eps not being that funny was purposeful. the whole show walks a tone tightrope, because the inciting event is so horrible. i appreciate it even if i found watching the last couple of episodes unpleasant at times--it's like the new, sincere tina fey.

I feel like they sort of shifted the tone too much and tried to tie off loose ends in the event they only had one season to work with. The divorce, the kids going away to school, the trial, etc. when they could have just milked it for a couple of seasons with her as a nanny for a spoiled rich family.

i'm glad they didn't, frankly! it's good imo that they didn't just entire drop the incredibly dark premise/real event that the show springs from, there just could have been some better jokes in that part for sure and no OJ/Tim Blake Nelson crap