3/16/15 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Started Strong?

    I just finished watching Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and I started out liking it a lot, but I felt the writing got sloppier and the acting  just got goofier towards the end.  The premise is a group of females is rescued from a crazed end of the world type by a swat force.  We then follow the Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) character after she goes to one of those morning shows in New York.  She has an awakening and decides she needs to start her life NOW.  She decides not to head back to the small town they were from and thus prooceeds to make her life in the big city.

    She encounters one off beat character after another.  First, the drugged out hippy landlord (Carol Kane) who has a room to rent, but she will have to room with the guy living there, Titus, an over the top gay black dude who breaks into singing often and for no reason.   He starts out "normal" but as the episodes progress, he gets zanier and farcical, ending on the finale by falling down and farting on national TV.  Then comes in her employer (Jane Krakowski), who is cold, and callous, but by the end of the season is dimwitted and having nonsensical flashbacks of her indian heritage.

    Kimmy becomes a nanny for a rich woman, but is often missing and leaving her roommate to tend to the kids while she is busy saving the day/moment in every episode.  This moves forward until the last three or four episodes are about the trial of the man that had them locked up under ground.  He turns out to be Jon Hamm who cleans up nice (always plays a beautiful man, although with Tina Fey, he tends to be goofy).  He has the jury eating out of his hand, and the all in the court love him, he will surely go free unless Kimmy goes and tells the truth.

    The rest of the season (15-16 episodes) have her discovering her first kiss, dealing with issues the kids she is baby-sitting have, helping the Jane character deal with her cheating husband, helping her roommate Titus believe in himself so he can pursue his dream and become an actor.  Some of the episodes were good and focused on the premise that Kimmy had been "underground" since she was fifteen, such as still looking for her first kiss.  Other episodes were kind of good, her scheming with and against the kids, seeing who could outsmart who.

    But then the story lines just went and got rid of the kids, the guys interested in her, and seemed to focus on Kimmy confronting the Jon Hamm character.  She went back home, her "step-dad" showed up and these are the kind of characters the lost my interest in 30 Rock, which was also another Tina Fey project, her step dad was a bumbling, fumbling cop who "does heroin" to prove he's not a cop, loses his gun for no reason, chases a cat up a tree, starts a fire, all for no real reason to the story, other than to be "funny", which was not really.

    I'm not sure if there will be a second season, I do enjoy Ellie Kemper, she was also cute and perky on the Office, and I do think Tina Fey can write well, but maybe just write or act, doing both did no one any favors, and if the goal is to look "ugly" on TV, why bother, Tina Fey can be good looking, yet decided to be a lawyer with a horrible hairstyle, threw her back to the 70s with a huge perm thing on her head.  I'll watch a second season, but the goofy stuff is noot needed, it was entertaining enough just by letting the characters be themselves.