![]() (Lauer deserves a Guest Actor Emmy nod for this scene, and that’s no exaggeration.) “I’m always amazed at what women will do because they are afraid of being rude,” Lauer deadpans. “I had waited on Reverend Richard at a York Steak House I worked at and one night he invited me out to his car to see some baby rabbits, and I didn’t want to be rude, so…here we are,” says another. “The reverend had bought some of my hair on Craigslist, and we started emailing and I just thought he had some real good ideas,” says one. Lauer quizzes each of the mole women on how they fell prey to the cult in the first place. (There’s a reason Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt sounds like a superhero.) The next two minutes sets the tone of the entire series: a high-concept premise, Fey’s signature kooky-sharp writing, and an overtone of sadness and injustice that is ka-pow powered through by Kemper’s relentlessly sunny-though still impressively shaded-performance. They’re whisked away to New York, where they appear on the Today show and are interviewed by Matt Lauer about their experience as the “Indiana mole women.” “ Apocalypse, apocalypse, we caused it with our dumbness, ” they sing, to the tune of “O Christmas Tree.”Ī few quick cuts later, the girls are rescued from the bunker they’ve been living in for 15 years as members of Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne’s doomsday cult. It’s only when the group of women begins singing together that we’re clued in to the darkness that surrounds them. She turns to her friends to talk about Secret Santa presents. There’s Ellie Kemper ( The Office, Bridesmaids) as Kimmy, eyes wide and smile wider, as she puts the star on a Christmas tree. #THE INVINCIBLE KIMMY SCHMIDT TV#Leave it to Tina Fey to cook up a TV binge that we can feel good about devouring.Ĭreated by Fey and her 30 Rock co-genius Robert Carlock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt opens on a moment of sheer bliss in the midst of horrific circumstances. Given pop culture’s obsession with sarcasm and the idea that no bad deed should ever go punished, it’s quite the progressive creative decision to infiltrate all that moodiness with a TV show centered on happiness and positivity. #THE INVINCIBLE KIMMY SCHMIDT SERIES#And, on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Netflix’s new series available for streaming Friday, it’s not being mocked. It’s not an eerie, deranged smile, either. Her name is Kimmy Schmidt, and her defining characteristic is the brightest, most joyous ear-to-ear smile you’ve ever seen. So it’s rather surprising that from Netflix, the network that’s given us Kevin Spacey’s devil in the Oval Office and Litchfield Prison’s ward of disturbed inmates, we’re given TV’s best new character. In fact, we want our characters so dark and brooding-and wry and crude-that we’ve even forced TV’s brightest minds to flee the shackles of broadcast television to streaming services like Netflix in order to explore the depths of their depravity more fully. We delight in laughing along with their pessimistic worldviews, or living vicariously through their unchecked moral bankruptcy. The jaded are our brethren in self-loathing. That’s why so many of today’s beloved TV characters are the curmudgeonly, cynical, cranky types. ![]()
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