Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

If Kimmy Schmidt could do better, most shows would do worse. Its willingness to go there gives it its wonderfully unhinged luster.

The jokes are still, often, wildly funny (and they come densely-packed enough that if you don’t like one, you’ll have all of 15 seconds t...

This season, the show jokes, over and over again, about how injustice is ingrained within every level of society. And it does it so relentlessly th...

Its sparkly advertising and spastic, yet effective, humor belie a wit and poignancy that continues to resonate as largely peerless to this day.

Kemper is hilarious, advancing perkiness to a comically psychotic level without having Kimmy ever lose her fundamental appeal.

This is a series with the confidence to go deep on its main characters while delivering rapid-fire quips and visual gags (Roy Cohn Community Colleg...

It’s the most whip-smart, subversive, life-loving and hilarious sitcom produced this year.

Fey and Carlock have delivered basically the same show they did a year ago. Given how great that original NBC version was, I can’t reall...

The result, like «30 Rock,” is another sharply written, often offbeat, endearing and funny comedy.

Based on six episodes for review, Kimmy remains Kimmy, which is about as good as the news can get for fans.

The story of Kimmy Schmidt’s continuing education was bound to get bumpy, but it remains entertaining, and season 3 has every chanc...

From the moment you hear the infectious theme song, you’ll be carried into a world of almost singsong dialogue and rapid-fire quips, jok...

Kimmy gets a little smarter, too, and finds relations outside that circle of new life that embraced her last year.

Kimmy Schmidt is not only a winning comedy; it exemplifies what a Netflix sitcom should be.

It’s almost cartoonish in its approach to the sitcom, to an extreme that sometimes pushes it into avant-garde territory: Not only would Daffy Duck...

The silliest, most colourful, best-written show on TV.

It is indeed messy, but it’s a messiness that finds enough tart, pinging humor-some of it trenchant, some of it knee-slapping silly-to s...

At first, things go charmingly for the perennially perky Kimmy in this strange new world, until they don’t. In this scene, she returns to her...

This isn’t a «30 Rock» retread, though it shares that show’s loopy, rapid-fire rhythms and its spot-on satire of media, celeb...

What worked especially well last season also gets better in the second.

Season two of the show is more enjoyable than season one because, for long stretches, it barely remembers what it’s about, plot-wise, and ent...

Season 3 is so dense with jokes that it’s hard to watch too many episodes in one sitting. Also, it’s glorious.

Still, if you’re a fan of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, as I am, you won’t come out fully disappointed. The show still has its u...

Netflix’s other nice girl Kimmy Schmidt, whose bright smile and eager embrace of the world is intensely optimistic.

Great to see Amy Sedaris returning as Jacqueline’s fellow desperate divorce Mimi Knassis, who’s more than just a lyric in Unbeliev...

Kemper is delightfully daffy in this modern Mary Tyler Moore role, oozing wonder as she discovers the marvels of the new millennium – matching...

Netflix has previously scored with Orange is the New Black and House of Cards, but this is the first true comedy it has picked up and it looks to b...

The way Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt plays with television tropes and meta comedy is impressively still fresh and smart.

Kimmy Schmidt does take one of its boldest narrative swings yet with Season 4, a format-breaking homage to the insane popularity of true crime narr...

Honestly, the worst thing about Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s fourth season is that it’s being released in two parts, leaving Kimmy&rsquo...

Kimmy believably trips, stumbles, and occasionally glides through her second lease on life, wielding her gumption, her dazzling grin, and her light...

Like many newbie sitcoms, Kimmy Schmidt stumbles, at times, to find its tone--and, with thirteen episodes launched at once, it doesn’t have the fre...

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has still got it. Kimmy mixes it up with #MeToo, with stellar results.

Beyond Kimmy’s personal issues, Unbreakable continues to highlight some outstanding comedic performances within the ensemble (in addition to...

Clearly, the darkness that’s always been present in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is finally breaking through in this fourth season, even though it’s a...

Throughout the second season of this wildly funny and joyous series, Kimmy comes to embody a full knowledge of the power of being kind and hel...

The jokes are still zingy, the tone still irreverent, and the three key characters are still doing what they do best.

Still-irresistible… Krakowski, Kane and Tituss Burgess, who plays Kimmy’s roommate Titus Andromedon, all have had character upgrades.

Season three represents a smarter approach to topical material. Just like its namesake character, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is growing up.

The Netflix comedy has hidden depths; a complex structure whose brilliance is partly conveyed in how simple it all seems.

«Kimmy Schmidt» is itself a kind of anti-fantasy fantasy of New York, celebrating the city’s dirt in an era in which even «Sesame&n...

The characters are wacky, the colours are bright, New York is a main member of the cast. It’s easy to watch and ideal for Netflix, and e...

It’s not the type of experience that you’d think would inspire comedy, but that’s the key to Kimmy Schmidt’s ambition: by m...

In season two, much of the same goofiness that killed you in season one is back.

The jokes can’t be beat. But it’s harder to laugh when we’re preparing to wince.

Kimmy gets an ending she deserves. Because that female is strong as hell.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt might be better at being Arrested Development at this point than Arrested Development itself… The guffaw-per-minute ratio...

Each episode of Kimmy Schmidt is so dense it’s like a binge-watch unto itself. Watch one and be full.

Season two pushes things in even more metatextual directions, largely to good ends.

It’s a smart, funny series, and it’s a relief to know Netflix saved it from what was sure to be terminal neglect had it aired on NBC.

Fey and Carlock constantly keep audience members on their toes, thrusting ideas that sound so wacky they’d never work. And yet they do.

The show still has its usual wacky appeal, dialed-up performances, and rapid-fire jokes that come and go so quickly that they all but require ...

There’s a tough yet tender magic about the pop-culture cynicism and innate human optimism that combines to make Kimmy Schmidt such a tri...

It’s a relentlessly upbeat sitcom that also has a lot of smart stuff to say about the way we treat people we perceive to be victims, sur...

Don’t worry about its underlying themes too much because three seasons in, the humor in Kimmy Schmidt is still among the sharpest and brainie...

it is worth noting, [it’s] a series in which three of the four lead characters are female, of different ages, and the fourth is a g...

There are also times when Kemper seems to be playing a thin gloss on 30 Rock’s protagonist, Liz Lemon. Yet give Kimmy Schmidt enoug...

Fey and Carlock have delivered basically the same show they did a year ago. Given how great that original NBC version was, I can’t reall...

The show’s maniacal co-creators have crafted a series that’s rising head-and-shoulders above its peers, and there are a lot of great parts of...

Ellie Kemper’s bold gameness has powered the show for so long that it’s almost easy to take it for granted; even while she’s fail...

What infuses the entire series with sweetness and positivity is Kemper’s never-flagging, completely endearing portrayal of Kimmy, who doesn&r...

If you liked the first season of Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, you’ll like the second… In terms of the show’s core values...

What sets the show apart is its tireless, formless, free-flowing pursuit of laughs – and a cast that can ride that wave while also giving...

An outstanding joke-delivery system, but it’s been more than that in the past.

Kimmy picks herself up, then opens up to someone else who changes her life – her therapist, Andrea (Tina Fey) - in a development that ill...

This show was made to be streamed; it’s the TV equivalent of a run-on sentence, and I love it.

It’s possible to want Kimmy to move beyond her traumatic past for her own sake, but stay stuck there for the sake of all the great jokes the...

What sets the show apart is its tireless, formless, free-flowing pursuit of laughs--and a cast that can ride that wave while also giving some...

All in all it’s a new and improved Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

It’s also the perfect moment for Kimmy Schmidt to raise the question of how much and how soon society is willing to forgive abusive behavior...

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt may be shifting away from its roots in Kimmy’s specific repression… but the show is fighting even harder against th...

At its best, the series evokes classic 30 Rock (it’s hard to think of a higher compliment).

Eschewing the complicated openings of seasons past, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt kicks off the first half of its final season in its comfort zone: par...

In a world where empathy is often portrayed as weak, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt consistently illustrates how warmth, kindness and creativity ar...

Yet give Kimmy Schmidt enough time, and it reveals that the real comparison point to make here isn’t with 30 Rock. It’s with...

It’s a joy. It’s always there. And it always does the trick.

Beyond Kimmy’s personal issues, Unbreakable continues to highlight some outstanding comedic performances within the ensemble… Not every note...

Many of Kimmy Schmidt’s season-two episodes play like 30 Rock with nothing to prove. They come across as outrageous without seeming...

Over its past three seasons, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidthas often managed to make30 Rocklook like sober realism… It’s over the top, except...

This is the sort of show that could benefit from multiple viewings, because the jokes are so packed in you’re sure to miss something while la...

With its endless, zippy jokes, the show barely allows room for breathing between laughs. It has some of the best straight-up joke writing on televi...

The result, like 30 Rock, is another sharply written, often offbeat, endearing and funny comedy.

Don’t worry about its underlying themes too much because three seasons in, the humor in Kimmy Schmidt is still among the sharpest and brainiest on...

Through six episodes, Season 3 has shown far less reliance on the past and an invigorating interest in the future… We’ve covered a lot of...

Season two is so dense with jokes that finishing it doesn’t mean you’ve necessarily caught all of the punchlines.

The show is so dense with verbal, visual, and structural jokes, in fact, that it resists binge-watching; after an episode or two, you stop laughing...

What all this adds up to in the first half of the fourth season, released on Netflix Wednesday, is a show perfectly tuned for a cultural momen...

Season three represents a smarter approach to topical material. Just like its namesake character, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is growing up.

Three seasons in, Kemper’s performance has become remarkably nuanced for such a slapsticky, cartoonish creation, and Kimmy Schmidt herself is...

It’s a show about a woman intent on moving forward that’s at its best when it’s looking backward.

It’s the riotous rhythms and bold attitude that drive the premiere, and it’s fudging hysterical. [15 Apr 2016, p.48]

For fans, the news is all good. Kimmy is as Jimmy was. Which is to say happily nuts.

The #MeToo jokes may not punch down, but they also don’t necessarily punch up. If anything, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt decidedly punches sidew...

In general, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was awesome. It’s everything I loved about 30 Rock, with an added dose of something totally u...

The humor is a bit of a mixed bag: There are some one-liners that are classic Fey, the kind that are both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply upse...

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has the deeply satisfying – and often thought provoking – ability to blend the familiar pleasures of the sitcom...

Kimmy mixes it up with #MeToo, with stellar results.