unbreakable kimmy schmidt netflix television show

xanthippe is kinda bad at acting, though

Tim Blake Nelson is terrible in this, otherwise I loved the show

keep up with your cool garbage culture

A+

tim blake nelson makes me miss jim varney. r.i.p.

keep up with your cool garbage culture

pretty board description, but maybe a little too on-the-nose

after three episodes, i think this show is very mediocre. will continue watching for ellie kemper. her schtick is really good, but i think it works better in a less zany context like the office.

also tina fey's comedy has always been racist how is this news

comedy has always been racist how is this news

i never learned how to cross things out...

i mean i'm pretty sure the first joke was about how cheap the jutes and the angles were or whatever.

show is funny as heck watched it all in one day

I asked some Vietnamese coworkers, and "kim-mi" doesn't mean anything. :(

Hey, I'm jute! But ok, guess we are pretty cheap, so I'll allow it.

Dong means 'gascompany' in jutish, and ke-mi means 'chemistry'.

I never really got into any of the recent-years NBC sitcoms but this has some funny bits

The best bits are usually really obvious but they're about rich white people being horrible. Even snuck in a joke about the senile old rich dude having assaulted Blake Lively. And Kimmy's frame of reference for everything being the late 90s.

Titus! When are us guys gonna talk about cars?

senile old dude = Oscar from Sweet Charity!

i've noticed a lot of jokes about race and racism in 30 Rock and UKS that haven't really scanned to me as racist jokes like they have to some other people. obviously sometimes going "ha ha check out this racist thing but ironically get it" can in itself come off as insensitive/tonedeaf but most of the jokes about racism on the show don't let the characters off the hook for it (particularly 30 Rock which was never afraid to implicate Tina Fey's Fey stand-in character). the Dong jokes definitely felt a little painfully outdated and Sixteen Candles-y even when they tried to be meta about it, though.

love this big time

Dr casino I totally get your quease. I read an earlier version of the pilot script back when the show was named TOOKEN and it was considerably more of an issue. Most of the changes made involved putting the focus on Kimmy's strength rather than the acts done to her (a shift seen right in the title), so the idea is not that we're laughing at her circumstances but impressed by her courage.

I appreciate this point, but personally, I found myself wanting to see more scenes in the bunker, mainly because I liked those characters and it seemed like they had a dynamic in the flashbacks that could have been developed in interesting ways. Maybe the show hits the right balance between NYC scenes and flashbacks, but I'd be tempted to push that darker stuff further and see what could be done with it.

She was underground for 15 years; where does her perkiness come from?

I feel like this show sprays jokes at you, 90% of which are not funny at all and 10% of which are hilarious

she is perky because she is unbreakable, it is in the title

Oh, I get it now

:)

I got maybe a third of the way through this before spraining my eyes from rolling them so hard:

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/03/i-liked-unbreakable-kimmy-schmidt.html

you lost me at pastemagazine.com

fair point!

anyway this show rules top to bottom, eagerly awaiting more of it

I am still only about 2/3 of the way through, but I really enjoyed the brief Kymmi bits, including the Olive Garden shtick

anyway this show rules top to bottom, eagerly awaiting more of it

IMO the episodes where Ellie Kemper pulls funny faces are clearly superior to the rest.

holy moly, that paste article completely misses the point of this show

how can you get even two episodes into this show and think the main focus is "country bumpkin in the big city"

I think part of it involves being super stupid

I’m not suggesting that Tina Fey plagiarized Khan’s show outright but maybe she binge-watched it on Netflix over a weekend like I did, forgot it existed, and then created Unbreakable a year later while fighting off a case of déjà vu.

yeah i'm pretty sure this is what happened too

The Unbreakable writers can’t decide which hat they want Krakowski to wear: the sheltered Upper East Side housewife, the woman scorned, the self-hating Native American reconnecting with her past—wait, what? Yes, Krakowski’s ample talents are wasted on a bizarre backstory and a fractured character that feels more like connective plot tissue than a definable person.

...because a person can't be sheltered, scorned AND self-hating, amiritie? I mean, pick one dimension and run it into the ground already! This is a sitcom!

if anything she's making apartment 23 seem more mundane than it was - "a wacky show about urban living...without all that weird talk about trauma and self-analysis!"

i feel like the post mad men generation is unlearning how to watch tv /:

recap culture is killing us all

ok if you know anything about how earlier generations dismissed "the tv generation" the idea of dismissing new generations as not being as good at watching tv is really funny

"kids today don't know how to shut up at stare at a screen like we did"

thank you for glossing my joke /:

maybe the writer is just really young or naive

the best part of the "country bumpkin" stuff is how it's over the top and obviously no one is like that, but at the same time there's enough truth to it to burrrrn

Kimmy being all surprised/envious that her hometown now has an Olive Garden

hahaha oh man, that echoes so closely how I felt when the movie theater reopened in my home town while I was in college

sorry thomp i follow enough 35+ year olds on twitter that i assume the worst the second anyone posts the word "generation"

knew it xp

sokay. it was a deep core of seriousness and truth to it

my favorite thing in this I think was when kimmy responds to criticism in middle school style. good schtick, on one occasion peculiarly moving , a+

are you referring to '2090 called...'?