I don't think he's even really that conservative, but there's a surprising amount of money to be made if you give up on broad appeal and instead play specifically and exclusively to smug people who reject entertainment they find ideologically incorrect.

Right-Leaning Libertarian Standup whose career took a really weird turn after 9/11. He wound up reinventing himself as a straight-up right-winger and joined the conservative entertainment cottage industry.

The show's quite… It takes a while to figure itself out. But after Episode Twelve they totally gave up on mass appeal and figured out what they had to cut in the back of the season.

Yeah. Minor spoiler, but Kimmy's job title changes in a later episode without comment to address this.

I think that Titus has the potential to be a deeper character. Lillian, on the other hand, is mostly there so that Carol Kane can be a hilarious laugh factory and would really suffer from any attempt to dimensionalize or otherwise overuse her.

Eh. They're probably going to aim for a longer episode length, stop pegging the plots to ad-break based acts, and so on. It's going to be a change, but it's the kind of change most shows go through when the creatives take a seat after a half season or so to sketch shit out. Just, y'know, retooling it from a broadcast…

Scream lines. The whole scream lines exchange is the best. Him asking if she worked in a coal mine or on a submarine was hilarious.

Not really? Most shows get retooled multiple times in the first season and a half, and this show's only had a half season. It's part of moving on from the pilot. Once it's in motion you see what works, what doesn't, how it all gels, and you can tweak it based on that.

Eh. They already run over because they wrote hasty little bits to smooth over the act breaks. Most of the episodes run long for network because they were written for 22 and then had those bits put in. So long as they regularly hit around 28-30, which is where the last three or so episodes end, I think it's probably…

I'm actually almost disappointed we got this premise instead.

She used up all her weird secret points on having her face sliced open by a pervert when she was five.

The way she talked about it suggested that they'd be shooting for half hours rather than 22 minutes.

I think Titus is salvageable. In fact, I thought he was pretty funny a lot of the time. Unfortunately, he's in the show because Tina Fey has a weird and particular love for his performance as D'fwan and wrote Titus as the Diet Coke D'fwan because she could. Which makes giving him growth difficult.

30 Rock didn't come out of the gate fully formed, and the people behind it agree. Heck, for me it doesn't really git gud until the one with Paul Reubens. Fey's on the record as describing it as "awkward" and "sweaty."

It's not, actually. This project's been a number of different shows with a number of different premises, with the only shared bits being Kemper, Fey, Carlock and New York.

It's not even that. It's that she went into the bunker before bottled water became a thing, so the idea of it being really ubiquitous is weird to her.

She's pretty open about the fact that she has a pretty severe bunion situation and she's one of those people that's like, medically pigeon-toed.

Yeah, Krakowski said in an interview that the show is going to be retooled in the second season in order to work better on Netflix. Longer running-times, darker jokes, and I can't help but think it'll also be able to wiggle past the A-Plot B-Plot three acts thing now that they know that they don't have commercials to…

They're kind of like Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask in my opinion: They need each other to function. KOTOR 1 was the save, daz clean Star Wars story we all wanted back then because Phantom Menace was hot burning diaper garbage. But it needed the darkness and eagerness to hack everything apart that you see in KOTOR…

It's more complicated than that.