Her closest relationship is with her roommate Titus, forever chasing his big break on Broadway. Having not viewed her episodes of The Office, I was prepared to be disappointed…but personally, I found Kemper delightful with her over-engaged, pitched delivery and mean-mug expressions whenever she naively felt a wrong was being committed. The enjoyment one gets by watching Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt will undoubtedly rest on how much you like Ellie Kemper and her style of frenetic, high energy comedy. Ultimately, NBC decided to cut back on their comedies that year and nixed the show, opting instead for a drama-heavy schedule.Įnter new tech to save the day: Having already resurrected the little seen (but critically lauded) meta-comedy Arrested Development in 2013, streaming outfit Netflix came to the rescue again, becoming a pseudo-home to these non-traditional sitcoms snubbed by the Big Five networks. The story originally had Kimmy coming out of a years-long coma, but was switched later to the doomsday cult storyline (much edgier). Originally conceived under the working title Tooken, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was, from its inception, an attempt by NBC to find a comedy vehicle for star Ellie Kemper, who gained prominence as a member of the cast during the last five years of NBC’s hit comedy, The Office. #THE INVINCIBLE KIMMY SCHMIDT SERIES#Can you afford $1 a month? Well then, click over and check it out! The more support we get, the more content we can churn out for you! Click here to support us.Ĭlick to order Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: The Complete Series at Amazon.Ĭreated by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock (she created 30 Rock, he was a series showrunner), Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was released during the heyday of those single-camera, laugh-trackless comedies…and was indeed first pitched to NBC before finding its home on prestigious streamer Netflix, at the time experiencing exponential growth and expansion in content acquisition (as was so-called “Peak TV” in general, with over 400 new scripted programs alone in 2015, doubling 2010’s output just five years earlier). Created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, and starring Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, Carol Kane and Jane Krakowski, watching this for the first time in locked-down, pandemic-addled 2020 felt like 2015 might as well have been 1990 considering the changes these past five years in the media and cultural landscape.Īre you enjoying the content we’ve produced for the past half-decade? If so, consider supporting us by becoming a Patron at our new Patreon page. Now, it’s been released in a classy complete series Blu-ray collection from our friends at Mill Creek Entertainment (they’ve released a DVD version as well). That’s the short-list of problems facing the protagonist of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, a Netflix exclusive comedy that premiered in 2015 and ran for four seasons. But does it suck as much as viral social media attention and learning to use a smartphone? And they’d have to be to survive an underground doomsday bunker for 15 years.
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