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I don't know if it's more acclaimed than The Good Wife, Community or Parks & Rec but it's probably the most acclaimed since those shows premiered, along with Jane the Virgin. Pretty crazy how The CW has had such a quick turnaround in critical relevance.

Yeah I'm a Good Person is SO much better in the explicit version. I Give Good Parent has some good lines in both. The Dazzling the Family line is great but "like my pussy, you two have wonderful taste" might be my favorite lyric of the entire season.

It's mostly people who have never seen an episode but need to race into every Newswire to get their fresh and hilarious takes on everything.

I think their joke/humor style is still very similar, because at this point the Fey/Carlock tone of comedy is so distinct. But yes, UKS is a lot more of a darker character piece while 30 Rock was a showbiz satire.

That was a Kenneth line on 30 Rock!

Tina said May 2017 in an interview but I could see it being longer. Hopefully not too much longer…

Yeah I was also not a big fan of the Russ arc. Russ is kind of a nothing character and I don't totally buy why Jacqueline is so into him. And I just think Jacqueline's world is a lot more fun with ridiculously funny caricatures like Mimi, Deidra or Xan than someone boring like Russ.

The final Kimmy/Andrea scene was the best combination of funny and devastating. The revelation that Andrea had been drinking the entire time was honestly such a sad gut punch. They really did a good job of letting us buy into Kimmy's optimism for a moment before tearing it down.

It's a movie theater in NYC. People probably do that allll the time.

He had a few liberal stances before he was a serious presidential candidate but he's pretty much flip-flopped back on all of them (abortion being the biggest). I think he probably doesn't buy a lot of his own bullshit but that doesn't give me any reason to believe he still wouldn't implement that bullshit if it meant

Damn this was a great two-parter. Less Sam and more fun ensemble pieces like this, please!

I think there's a balance of both required here. Tina is right that there are a lot of idiots on the internet who don't know what they're talking about. But a lot of the critiques were by well-meaning critics who otherwise raved about the show and simply felt it had a blindspot about a certain subject. Lots of shows

This is by far her best role since Liz Lemon. Her mediocre string of movie roles made me wonder if maybe she was just so good in that role because it was basically her, but Andrea feels like something entirely new and great.

Tina said in an interview somewhere that she's had this character in mind since the beginning of the series and that she had to be "coerced" into the Marcia Clark role, so I don't think it's an addiction to fame or anything as much as she felt strongly about this character.

Yeah I don't think so either. But I can dream!

A show can have "problematic" (I hate that word) elements and still be overall great. The internet does not seem to understand this.

I wanted that initially but Andrea was so good that I really just want more Andrea.

I agree with Fort Night, and maybe Wagstaff School News too. Also maybe Topsy?

Yeah I think Tina explicitly said that the reason they started the baby talk around S2 was because they weren't sure the show was going to last much longer and wanted Liz adopting to be endgame, but when the show kept getting renewed they pushed it off til later because they wanted it to be a series finale thing

This is why I found the trial episodes genuinely disturbing and nerve-racking to watch rather than silly and farcical. I've never been able to tell whether or not that was what the show wanted.