So, who else here has binge watched Tina Fey's new comedy, which is one of those ideas that sounds like it really shouldn't work but it does because it is being written by people who are not morons?
The premise is that Kimmy Schmidt was kidnapped from middle school by an terrible wedding DJer/insane cult leader named Richard Wayne Gary Wayne and kept in a bunker with three other women he kidnapped for fifteen years.
Then they got rescued. And after a short, exploitative stint with the mass media, Kimmy decides to remake herself in New York and gets a room with a fabulous gay black man named Titus Andromedon.
The show...should not be funny. Or if it was funny, it should be darkly funny.
But the tone isn't dark. If you just looked at the color scheme and watched the main character without any jokes referring to her time in the bunker showing up, you wouldn't be that off base to think it was a light hearted sitcom through and through. A big part of that is because Kimmy Schmidt is...well, unbreakable. She refuses to ever give up, and keeps pushing on with an infectious optimism that vibrates from every frame.
Now, the show has gotten some flack for its depiction of race - specifically, one character is revealed to be a Lakota passing as white, and there is a Korean immigrant love interest. Whether these elements are game breakers for you is really up to other people...I didn't find it too objectionable.
But...I was too busy rolling on the floor laughing my face off, so I might have missed something.
The show's on Netflix!
Also, it has a
stupidly addictive theme song.