Let's not forget about Reggie Jackson's excellent cameo as himself in BASEketball.
Let's not forget about Reggie Jackson's excellent cameo as himself in BASEketball.
Im wondering if I'm somehow the only one who caught Jacquelyn's line about "selling my trinkets so I can own Manhattan." Even of the Native American storyline doesn't totally work (and I don't think it has yet, at least) there are still sharp bits to it.
My take from that (maybe the darkest cutaway joke from a show full of them) was simply that whatever Kimmy's understanding of sex is, or has been, comes from a very violent context. I like that the show hasn't made her sexually timid at all - she's pretty clear about her urges, actually - but is taking its time in…
Oh man I would have loved to see Hartman do this. My only two worries with that would be:
1. You'd know it was him just from the voice in the pilot.
2. Hartman specialized in giving this kind of character an oily schmarm. You'd still like them, as a viewer, but it's clear you'd hate that person in real life. Hamm was…
As for the great use of color in this show, just check out the screenshot up top. Jacquelyn is in focus, front and center, but your eye is drawn to Kimmy, out of focus in the very back, because she's the only one wearing red in a field of blue and white.
It worked for me, anyway. The show is giving the first season a three-part closing arc, which is pretty ambitious in and of itself, and needs to raise the stakes of the story as well as the themes. Not to really spoil what's coming, but the show finding all of the ways it can to show how the justice system puts…