Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Plot synopsis:
In the first season, Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper) was in 8th grade when she was kidnapped for fifteen years by Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (Jon Hamm). The Reverend held Kimmy and three other women hostage in an underground bunker, and convinced them that doomsday had come, gone, and had left them the sole survivors of humanity. Once the women are rescued, they go on to appear on the Today Show in New York City. After the show, Kimmy finds herself not wanting to return to Indiana, but instead to start a new life in New York City. Roaming around the city, Kimmy comes across landlady Lillian Kaushtupper (Carol Kane). Kaushtupper offers Kimmy a chance to room with Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess) in her downstairs apartment. However, Kimmy has to seek a job in order to get the apartment. Returning a child who has tried to steal candy, Kimmy encounters his mother, Jacqueline Voorhees (Jane Krakowski) a Manhattan trophy wife, who mistakes her for a nanny, and who Kimmy mistakes as someone trapped in a cult. Soon after, Jacqueline hires Kimmy to be a nanny for her 10-year-old son. As Season 1 continues, Kimmy falls in love with a Vietnamese man, named Dong (Ki Hong Lee) from her G.E.D. class, goes to court to testify against the Reverend, and discovers how the world has changed in the 15 years she was locked up.
In the second season, Kimmy is sick of working for Jacqueline and acquires a job at a year round Christmas store and then as an Uber driver. She tries to get over Dong who enters a green card marriage with another G.E.D. student and eventually is deported. As Kimmy tries to move on, so do Titus and Jacqueline, who both find boyfriends. Titus begins dating a construction worker (Mike Carlsen) and Jaqueline begins dating a lawyer (David Cross). Jacqueline also goes back to her Native American heritage and decides to take down the Redskins, who her boyfriend's father happens to own. When Season 2 ends, Titus leaves to be a performer on a cruise and Lillian protests the invasion of hipsters on her neighborhood, while Kimmy makes amends with her mother (Lisa Kudrow) after advice from her therapist (Tina Fey) before receiving a phone call from The Reverend in prison, telling her that they need to get a divorce.

Tags: cult

Review:
I'm a little late to the party as I've only watched Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt this year, but I figured it was time to watch it since I'm a fan of Tina Fey and 30 Rock.
I wanted to like it and I was very excited to watch it, but it was honestly a big let down compared to the previous two seasons.
Overall, this show is an amusing, feel good comedy and it does bring a smile to my face, I just hope that the writers will have some more focus and direction in the coming seasons..
So I watched episode 2 and I found this show super funny and with adorable character that I connected to her very fast.In this show you will see woman who lived underground for 15 years, and then make new friends, get a job and a house.
Very independent women.In other words, if you feel kind of desperate and you need a character that will make you feel confident and happy with yourself, this show will make you that person and BEYOND!i can give example from the show, when one of the character felt miserable because her husband didn't show up, Kimmy make her feel better in just 10 seconds(!) and Mikky was for her best friend.Seriously, if you have free time and you don't know what to do, I'll recommend you to with this show.
Ellie Kemper, the subject of this show, is wonderfully quirky, sweet and her performance is enjoyable to watch.Tina Fey's writing is clearly asserted as the main character, Kimmmy, is a strong, powerful, determined and unbreakable.
While not as funny, binge worthy, or all together accessible as her first sitcom, 30 Rock, Tina Fey's second outing as head writer proves to have its own charms.
With a cast that gets better with age, writing that goes from zany and out of this world to surprisingly profound and sweet, and a stellar sense of humor, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is the kind of series that improves over time, much like Ms. Fey's first sitcom.
The cast includes a zesty Carol Kane, the funny as always Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock Guest alum Tituss Burgess, and our lead Ellie Kemper; these four hilariously colorful players take the normal NBC formula for comedy and make it into something far smarter and much sharper.
Titus is an exceptional character, and his subplots are consistently some of the better things on television.Some of the episodes can go on for a bit too long, and many of the jokes about the bunker are much over-used.
UKS utilizes many aspects of New York (Today show, times square, pick pockets).I think it's funny when Kimmy's lack of education comes into play (e.g. proclaiming "Urethra!" instead of "Eureka!") She also uses lingo from the 90s/00s that really clash with modern day.I know many people are comparing UKS to other shows (that I have not seen).
If you don't you'll fall in love with Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and watch all 7 seasons of 30 Rock in one sitting.You'll know the story of Kimmy Schmidt by now, so I'll not get into that.
And I must say, she does a really good job as the girl who shields the cruelty of life with a big smile and an almost childish appreciation of the world.As in 30 Rock there is no room for subtlety in the way the characters are portrayed.
I've never felt so optimistic about a new sitcom since New Girl and it sure is one of the best new comedy shows in both 2014 and 2015 and after a whole lot of amazing drama series the first netflix comedy that is worth the watch..
The whole thing is just consistently happy and can really cheer you up within seconds.I admit that the story does get a little tiresome at some points, where there isn't as much joking, but the series manages to keep reinventing itself in new and fun ways that brings back your interest immediately.It's also a very subtly clever satire.
Whilst the majority of it may seem like silly fun, the back story of the doomsday cult, the theme song and a whole host of other stuff is actually very intelligent, and of course, a lot of fun too.You've got to watch this series, whether you want to binge it or not, because it's such a refreshingly happy show that stands out amongst the crowd of idiotic sitcoms and burning dramas.www.themadmovieman.com.
Lovable quirky characters, surprisingly honest and extraordinary writing make 'Kimmy Schmidt' a must-see comedy.
Tina Fey and her writing team already proved themselves with 30 Rock which had some of the best written comedy of all time with what is in my opinion one of the best television characters of all time, Jack Donaghy, and while Kimmy Schmidt is a different approach to her formula it still very much feels like something from the minds of the creators of 30 Rock.
It's lighthearted silly and at the same time smart and sometimes sophisticated fun with extraordinary writing, characters you WILL fall in love with, dedication from the whole crew in terms of lighting, set and costume design, cinematography, original score.
I really like this show but the new season which I binge watched today the day it came out on Netflix, is horrible!
This show started of brilliantly, very funny/quirky with a decent enough story line, had I reviewed it after the first season I'd have given it 9 out of 10.
Something zany is gonna happen until the writers get bored and try to carry the show on the novelty of Kimmy/Elle Kemper's adorability, Or over flamboyance of the gay character's stereotypes.
What a waste of time, it's no surprise NBC choose not to air it, it is very doubtful it would have made it past a few episodes.On the plus side, the show has a catchy opening song, some good actors (always fun seeing Carol Kane), it's upbeat and focuses on being upbeat, and it has a unique premise.
The base storyline touches on a very unpleasant subject (kidnapping, cults, belittling women, etc.) the characters for the most part are unflattering stereotypes, and not once did I laugh or smile while watching any of the episodes.
Tina Fey's worst work yet - it's literally cramp inducing, and they think it's funny!.
It is like watching a Tina Fey heavy episode of 30 Rock – it's just not funny at all.
I watched the entire first season in a few days hoping for redeeming qualities, but it's bad acting, bad writing, not even fart and d**k level humor just...poorly written scenes without any spark of creativity.
The high rating for this series is symptomatic of demonizing spending time away from pop up boxes and actually thinking for a moment about your life and being reflective...incredible how much people hate thinking and not going from one over used trope to the next to avoid seeing the world around them.
There are tons of great Netflix series out there like Sense8, Gotham, Mad Men (of course), Orange is the New Black, all have great writing, character development, and aren't DUMBED DOWN and RACIST.
I wanted to like this show, but i've watched half of the first season now and i did not smile, let even laugh, once.
I know this show is getting a lot of crap but I adore kimmy shes sweet and too cute for words I like the humor the story is great too its a fantastic show and its really too good too miss you cant resist kimmy or titious they both work perfectly together and are hilarious you really need to watch this one.
Tina Fey has written lots of comedic moments, and I certainly didn't hate the cast, but season 4 just makes it super clear they don't want me around as a viewer unless I voted the right way.So as a viewer who's clearly a GIANT GAY HATING BIGOT WHILE I WATCHED AND ENJOYED 3 PREVIOUS SEASONS OF REALLY THE ADVENTURES OF KIMMY AND TIDUS(which I clearly had no problem with in reality to watch 3 seasons), I have to say:Goodbye Tina Fey, you will not be missed..
the fourth season is unwatchable and makes me feel like I'm watching a kids show from start to finish..
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is a good show to watch that it already makes me want the next season to come.
its not even funny, i feel like the true comedy is the writers writing as many awful terrible jokes and laughing at all the morons giving this high ratings.
judging by the writing this was for sure written by Tina fey (i think she is really over rated).
I have never been a fan of Tina Fey's humour, and after I noticed her name a few episodes in I quickly realized why the show was nigh unwatchable.I watched it all because, "hey, it's not that long, maybe I'll learn to like it".
To be fair, we just finished binge-watching three seasons of Grace and Frankie, which is a sharp comedy with great acting and interesting story lines.
(Kenneth's tall tales on "30 Rock" about talking pigs and hill-people rampages seemed not only funny but true; this one just smells like desperation in the writers' room.) I guess it might help if you were born c.1980 and the 90s pop-culture refs still resonate; I'd already forgotten all about "Billy Madison," for example.We only made it through the first couple of episodes, I admit, and other reviewers—there's a suspicious buildup of short, snappy 5-star reviews on Netflix, btw—keep insisting that you have to stay with it for a while.
TV critics are stoked that Tina and Robert Carlock could build a sitcom around a "mole woman" who'd spent fifteen years as the concubine of a crazed cult leader, but after the pilot episode (which is genuinely intriguing), this edgy premise mainly serves as a setup for routine time-warp gags: KImmy thinks an iPhone is a Gameboy and so on.
(I did peek ahead to see how the "Kimmy Goes to Court" episode turned out, but things hadn't gotten any better.) PS—just found out from a puff piece in the Times that the guy who plays Tituss also played F'Dwan, Tracy's annoying wife's annoying sidekick on "30 Rock," the most annoying character ever to appear on that incomparable show.
this extremely witty and well written comedy series takes it's inspiration from something dark, the entrapment torture and sexual abuse of women incarcerated by someone who is considered the worst type of human, and most closely resembles the 3 women entrapped in that woeful 10 to 11 year saga a terrible dead committed by Ariel Castro who suicided 2 weeks into his life sentence, the show had me think about those people who were held captive and I went and looked into the latest news and reports concerning them, a lot of recent stuff has been produced about them, go look if you care, the opening sequence of each episode of this tittle is based on the interview and then rap production of the interview with Mr. Charles Ramsey of Cleveland Ohio, which is a very funny take on something very dark, though Mr Ramsey was an entertaining character, the series is fast paced, so fast that I sometimes have to rewind and even look up the dialogue to get the jist of it, I find myself Laughing Out Loud then worrying about annoying my neighbours, I'm not normally a loud person, and also at times find myself almost covering my eyes and yelling "NOOO" at some of the more awkward and embarrassing scenes and then end up laughing at myself, The main character "Kimmy Schmidt" is a person unaware of the idioms and much of the cultural change during her 10 years in captivity in a bunker and is in many ways still the young person she was when taken from normal society, which gives the writers free reign to write jokes about her naivety, which is a common theme in many comedies, but this has the twist of her interactions in flashbacks with 3 others who were also captive with her and the self professed reverend who kept them captive, this is truly a gem, watch it if you have a sense of humor!.
I like 30 Rock a lot & love to watch Tina Fey do anything, so I rented 'Unbreakable' yesterday, and have been chuckling, ha ha ing & belly laughing my way through season 1.The opening credits are a hoot too & the song is almost like a workout/cheer up video clip, with sly and mocking undertones.
Ellie Kemper has a deserving hit show in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.Frequently compared with Tina Fey's 30 Rock, the new series, which has Kemper escaping a weird abduction cult to try to make it in Manhattan, a la Mary Tyler Moore or Carrie Bradshaw, seems closer in spirit to Seinfeld, and moves us through slices of the Big Apple in the way that Seinfeld was so adroit at.Jane Krakowski is cast as Kimmy's bizarre rich person boss, channeling the Elaine Benes lodestones J.
I've never watched 30 rock (though I will now!) so had no real preconceptions of the writing style.I thought the way the pilot wrapped up Kimmy's 15 years captivity up to present day clever.
I like Jane K., so I give it 3 stars, but SHE is the only thing good about Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.I am thinking that this is so possible because it takes place in my city?
The head actress playing Kimmy, has this quirky, funny, full of life attitude making this a feel good series.
Kimmy's step father is one of these, every time he comes on I want to skip forward as I feel he is rather irrelevant to the story and only says and does stupid things that really gets annoying.
I will make this review simple...if you liked 30 Rock you will love this show also.It's created by Tina Fey who also did 30 Rock.The type of humor is the same but the overall story makes it easier to work in more fun situations..
I love Kimmy though, her eagerness for everything and her naivety of things everyone else just assumed was normal make it a great idea and a great show.I was surprised to see a new season, watched 4 the first day and 3 the next day.
When "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"'s first season was released on Netflix last March I didn't really give much about it - the description about a woman being saved from a bunker and spontaneously deciding to lead a life in New York sounded a bit too cheesy for my taste.
Tina Fey (30 Rock) created one of the decade's greatest comedy series by making every episode seem like a 30-minute fairy tale stuffed with bright colors and insane characters all along the way.
The dialogues are so beautifully crafted you'd have to think the writers did nothing but perfecting "Kimmy Schmidt" scripts the last ten years: The lines shine with surreal humor, lots of jokes about habits of modern society (e.g. creating a phone notification via the voice recorder which leads Kimmy onto a porn site) and great life teachings.
This series can really uplift its viewers after a hard day and this year's second season just came in time when I really didn't have the best of times and just needed some relaxation in the hilarious, surreal jungle called "21st Century New York" :)But it'd only be half the fun without the outstanding cast: Ellie Kemper stars as Kimmy Schmidt and she really knows how to enchant her fans and to put a smile on the viewer's face after delivering another one of her great lines.
"The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" is a series I can highly recommend to everyone who simply wants to relax and feel better as well as to fans of cleverly-used stylistic devices and some of the best culture references ever brought to the screen..
Supporting cast is alright too.Watched five episodes and haven't lol'd once, however, it's better than shows like Trophy Wife.
She moves in with Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess) a struggling actor who dreams of Broadway and gets a job as a nanny for Jaqueline White (Jane Krakowski) an uptown divorcee whose husband has left her with a young son and teenage daughter to look after.For the first couple of seasons, I felt like "Kimmy Schmidt" was essential viewing.
The core subject at the beginning is essentially quite dark (something I didn't really think that hard about until I got my mum to watch the first episode and she felt awkward laughing at it) but its instantly more feel good than anything else.
I love Tina Fey, and 30 Rock is my favorite sitcom ever, so I had huge hopes for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Like 30 Rock, it is very dense with humor, but it seems like they think every line has to contain a joke, and not only does it not always work, it gets annoying at times.
It worked for me through most of season 1, because it is funny a lot of the time.
This comedy starts off pretty good, but gets better in the season finale.
So Netflix picked this show up with a two season commitment after NBC dropped it !!!Honestly never laughed even for once :P The Trailer was encouraging but when i watched the pilot i just changed my mind.The story looked a bit like a female version of Blast from the Past ..
"Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"- Another winning comedy from Tina Fey. Quirky and off-kilter in all the best ways..
First of all I loved 30 Rock so when I heard Tina Fey was involved in this I couldn't wait to watch it.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is overall good but I was slightly disappointed as I had high expectations given the plot and the people involved.