unbreakable kimmy schmidt netflix television show

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...'?

Were people even doing "______ called, and it..." burns in the nineties?

least favourite thing was the odd joke that explained itself in case the viewer was not paying attention -- "that's why your mother and I flew here in the great shiny metal bird ... I'm kidding, I know what planes are, come on, I was in the Air Force" -- "I know what planes are" is totally unnecessary

otoh if doing this every hour or so was the thing that bothered me most ..

I think it started from David Spade's Hollywood Minute in the 90s, so, I think so?

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a lot of times -- mostly w xan -- she responds with middle schoolish non sequitur comebacks -- the one I found affecting was a 'I know you are, but what am i ' which made no sense as dialogue but worked ~ thematically ~

i know it's been noted plenty, but Dr. Frampf is my favorite mel brooks bit not done by mel brooks ever.

My least favourite joke was that Pinot Noir song.

Logan riding the miniature horse against fake background made me laugh. This show does good rich kid jokes.

I think you mean Pinot NuuuWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR

I liked the Pinot Noir song, much better homage to ridiculous viral video songs than the theme, which is too good

how is it possible not to like "Pinot Noir"

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i would watch titus andromegan watch things for hours, like when he's watching the trial. the faces!

Facial expressions by Kimmy and Titus totally make this show.

Somebody with better video/audio editing skills should mash up "Pinot Noir" with "Immigrant Song."

Watched the first three eps and enjoyed them. Show very much feels like a YA introduction to 30 Rock's style of jokes/patter. I also get the feeling that they're deliberately not going getting any dirtier to change the rating away from a TV-14, even if the hyperfire refs pull from decades old pop-culture.

I dunno about that. They shot the first season thinking it would be on network TV. They're shooting the 2nd season knowing it'll be on netflix.

i am curious at what point in production they knew it was going to be on Netflix and not NBC. i'm pretty sure it was before they did episode 9, which has a winking referencing to "binge watching [a sitcom] on Netflix."

i definitely had a problem with the theme song at first - so hokey! - but i got used to it.

my gf is obsessed with the theme tune, sings it all the time

FE-males are STRONG-AS-HELL

my gf is obsessed with the theme tune, sings it all the time

same

3 eps in and not entirely sold on this, though i like most of the actors. if i remember it took at least half a season for me to really like 30 Rock though. fave part so far was "Hashbrown: no filter"

Somebody with better video/audio editing skills should mash up "Pinot Noir" with "Immigrant Song."

Obviously entitled "Kimmigrant Song."

I don't know how I'd react -- probably badly -- to a Tina Fey project with swears in it.

Guys.... Dong Nguyen is also the name of the creator of Flappy Bird

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"That was the fanciest sentence I ever heard, and I used to watch Frasier"

This show is pretty cool, hits a lot of the New Yorkers-joking-about-flyover-country type humor that 30 Rock had. Lots of killer one-liners.