I agree that the beats of the episode were highly predictable and disappointing for the show. Interestingly, though, I found myself laughing at quite a lot of it. The weaknesses in Melissa as a character are in her writing, if you ask me. I rather enjoy that Melissa is, at times, so starkly normal compared to Phil and…

I think it's meant to be a joke about how Xanthippe is a vicious little brat.

Everyone knows that Christine Ebersole is forever iconic for playing Regina Rich, in Richie Rich.

This show has so effectively soured Kat Denning for me that I firmly believe I will never find her appealing ever again.

It is ceaselessly stunning that this is the same network that houses The Good Wife.

While I love Amy Sedaris showing up and stealing a scene or two, her guest in S01E09 of Broad City has set a gold standard for her other guest appearances and perhaps nothing will ever be as great as that real estate broker.

And also Khonani: "Oh, don't worry. Subhas will want to leave, spend time on his hobbies. He collects classic car…*cough*…cardboard. Classic cardboard."

Honestly, Jenna's married life with Paul would have made for some unsettlingly hilarious situations for an Indiana Mole Woman to find herself thrust into.

They hinted at it with her ensemble of temps at Deals! Deals! Deals!, featuring the gorgeous Asian guy that she made out with and the gorgeous black girl she made out with. We've never seen it put in front of us so bluntly, but they've suggested she's open to anything.

Tracy is introduced in the pilot and becomes a mainstay of the cast by Episode 2. For me, I think 30 Rock really finds its voice with "Tracy Does Conan", and begins to settle into a groove with "Black Tie." After that, Season 2 hits the ground running.

I loved the line "He's dead" - *cough* "serious about education so he went to a conference in Hartford." Mainly because that type of syntax joke is one they made on 30 Rock somewhat frequently. Every subtle little 30 Rock reference this show makes warms my heart.

I can only be marginally interested in an episode that centers itself entirely on Eddie and Louis. The restaurant arc has yet to land for me (even though it's always nice seeing Parker Young) and Eddie - even when he's right for once - still feels a little too much like a skeezeball. GIVE ME CONSTANCE WU AND THE BOYS.

Yes, yes, a million times yes. Once they survive the chopping block battle with Studio 60, they start to let loose and the show finds a blissful groove from seasons 2-5. Season 6 gets a bit bumpy, but then they hit it out of the park with Season 7. Power through the first season, it's necessary to fully appreciate how…

Because the bunker is important, but it's not the root of the show. The root of the show is Kimmy restarting her life in New York. Setting a pilot in a universe that the show is not going to exist in doesn't make any sense, and I don't really see how Kimmy's backstory is dampened by the fact that the series doesn't…

I agree about Titus so far. Very one note, and while he needs to have an independent existence from Kimmy, their constant separation is very weird. He feels more like a Frank right now, with his own arcs but without any real stakes in them. He SHOULD be more of a Jack Donaghy in that his relationship to Kimmy serves…

My gut tells me that the reason Kimmy Schmidt has fallen victim to a few (fairly negligible and rather understandable) early stumbles is because Fey and Carlock wrote this season with the expectation that it was going to air weekly on NBC. After 30 Rock struggled to find its ratings despite being wildly popular and a…

I disagree about the pilot being spent entirely in the bunker, because the show itself is not about the bunker. Being that it's about Kimmy taking charge of her life and leaving it in her past, setting the entire opening act in it might have provided more backstory at the very start, but it would have made the…

I screamed a little at "Actor Emergency". Felt very deliberately placed there.

The "Shut up, Vera" joke killed me. Not only because it obviously caught Vera completely off-guard, but because it was a classic example of Tina Fey's style of joke-telling. Any sitcom could have a character tell the housekeeper to shut up and try and sell it as funny purely for being so blunt. But the writers have…

It does, but the pilot and handful of first episodes are basically 28 Days Later with slower zombies.