Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Review

Netflix is off to an incredible start with series releases. Their most recent release is Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, a new Comedy created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. We follow Kimmy Schmidt, played by Ellie Kemper, who has been living  in a bunker for the last 15 years with four other woman as part of a cult that believes that the Apocalypse has destroyed the earth. Kimmy decides she would like to start her new life in New York City, but with no education and no friends in the city what follows is a series of hilarious events.

Kimmy follows an ad for a roommate and meets Titus, played by Tituss Burgess, a flamboyant, fabulous,  singer from the south who begins the season working as one of the characters in costume in Times Square. Titus agrees to allow Kimmy to live with him in a room that was literally the closet, but to Kimmy it is a palace. She inspires him to work on his performance career. By the end of the season he is working at a singing restaurant as a "Franken-Wolf." Kimmy begins working as a Nanny and personal assistant to Mrs. Voorhees, played by the always hilarious Jane Krakowski, an extravagantly wealthy housewife whose antics make all New Yorkers look a little foolish.

Each episodes is funnier the last. Kimmy is making up for 15 years of missed time so the 90s  pop culture references are hidden in every episode. Although most characters are stereotypical in nature, their humor is intelligent. Even when they are being crude, or controversial is it presented in such a way the characters never seem overtly racist or biased. Most of the jokes are derived simply from Kimmy ignorance of current pop culture. Not to mention it has one the best theme songs of any television series.

So stop what you are doing, park yourself in bed or on the couch and get ready to binge watch Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. The entire season is streaming only on Netflix.