30 Rock: Season One
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Movie Reviews of 30 Rock: Season One
Movie Review: 30 Rock is Incredible, and Amazon helped me get it cheap!
Summary: 5 Stars
Amazon made the purchase of this product very easy. It was easy to find and simple to buy, which isn't what I have found on other websites. I would suggest this site to any online shopper. The 30 Rock DVD box set is incredible. The main menu gives a short excerpt of each episode making it very user friendly. The episodes also provide the running time, so the viewer knows how much time has passed and/or how much time is left. The final disc of the box set provides bloopers and unseen footage from the show, in case you didn't get enough laughs from the previous 21 episodes. Each episode shares with the viewer a very funny outlook of a comedy series that is produced by as well as acted by Tina Fey. The other main characters include, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, and Jane Krakowski. This combination is the perfect match-up on camera. Each has their own style of comedy, which makes it entertaining for every viewer. The comedy style of Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) is very sarcastic and witty, whereas the style portrayed by Tracy Morgan is mildly vulgar as his Jack Donaghy's (Alec Baldwin). Tracy Morgan plays the lead of his own show on 30 Rock. He is very much a diva throughout every episode. He expects to be pampered by those around him, and goes about it very loudly. Liz Lemon plays the producer in the show, and spends a lot of her time keeping the actors on the show at peace with one another. Jack Donaghy's role is that network executive. He doesn't like to be involved with much, and goes about getting his way rather rudely. Jack's character provides a grumpy old man style of comedy. Jane Krakowski plays Jenna Maroney. Her character ignites the show by portraying the role of a ditzy blonde. Her role brings in the laughs at her own expense. This box set was a great purchase, and if you are looking for a simple fun comedy then 30 Rock is the show for you.Movie Review: Remarkable Show with Amazing Depth
Summary: 5 Stars
This show has a somewhat complex premise. An appliance exec is assigned to oversee entertainment. So it becomes the exec, Baldwin, versus the producer of one show, Fey. Add to this that the exec brings in a Black action figure movie star, to a show called "The Girlie Show", and it seems like too much. But every little nuance you can take from this complexity ends up working to an amazing degree. This show has depth, but it is comedic depth, the ability to have several things working at once, with a wonderful sense of flow.
There's always something going on in this comedy. Doneghy is talking to Maureen Dowd or Condi Rice. Tracy is running from Hip-Hop stars bent on murder. Liz is ditching a boyfriend who is appearing caught trying to pick up an underage girl in a chat room. It just never ends. And each character uses a lot of understated comedy, small facial expressions, while the broader comedy washes over the plots. These are some amazingly good actors, and there are very few of the canned comedic plotlines seen in almost all TV comedy these days.
The DVD allows for exploring the little touches. It's like when Jenna is in a movie, The Rural Juror, but no one can figure out the title and, as Liz says "It's too late to ask". Rachel Dratch often appears in an outlandish role, in this case as a Baba Wawa interviewer, slurring so many words no one seems to understand. As in "The roo-a joo-a".
This is great stuff. There's only one of these every ten years. You don't really need to be pushing any agenda to make a great comedy. You combine a lot of things that are just a little 'off center', and let it spin just enough out of control to be farcical. It's a hard thing to pull off, Give Tina Fey a lot of credit. There's a lot to this show, like work, and it shows.
Movie Review: Finally..an Amazing Sitcom!
Summary: 5 Stars
I accidentally stumbled upon "30 Rock" a couple of weeks ago when NBC was airing the episode "The Head and the Hair" and I was not only laughing out loud (literally)--I was genuinely charmed by this show.
Tina Fey (creator, writer, producer) stars as head writer Liz Lemon for an SNL-like skit show, "The Girly Show." All seems well until a new head honcho (played fantastically by Alec Baldwin) comes into control and demands that she hires a Bobby Brown-meets-Martin Lawrence star (the hilarious Tracy Morgan). This causes all hell to break loose and the series inevitably centers around Liz trying to find balance between these crazy men, her career, and maybe a love life--to most usually disastrous results.
The thing about "30 Rock" is that you must hang in there--for while it is funny from the beginning, it really starts picking up and building steam within the 3rd or 4th episode. You can see the actors really meshing and the chemistry is sensational. Fey does a great job being the centered yet often out of control Liz, leaving a very pleasant and hilarious impression.
I find this show to be a truly modern "Mary Tyler Moore." Like Moore, Liz wants the career and relationship but struggles to get it right. She also has a similar dynamic as Mary had with Lou Grant with her boss Jack.
With this show and "The Office," NBC is beginning to reformulate today's sitcom. No more laugh-track, but a lot more laughs.
And "30 Rock" received 10 Emmy nods--not too shabby!
So please...watch this show! It is brilliant, smart, wacky, sweet, and undeniably funny. Keep good shows like this on the air!
Movie Review: The Rural Juror... Try Saying That 3 Times Fast
Summary: 5 Stars
Liz Lemon (you gotta love that name) is surrounded by chaos, and without her, the world would fall apart without somebody keeping it spinning and/or GE would lose tons of money. 30 Rock is simply a show about crazy, over-inflated egos, and the girl that tries to keep them all together. And while Tina Fey amazingly plays the straight girl (to the confusion, and bemusement of some), the show's humor comes from the out of control egos, from the dumb blond, Jenna, self-proclaimed mental, Tracy Jordan, and the Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming, Jack Donaghy (NOT Donahy).
Amazingly, the only episode that is a complete mess is "The Pilot," but as the show progresses, and finds its footing after a mere 4 episodes. From there on out, it's brilliant. The show creates compelling and humorous storylines, crafting great characters along the way. The humor is not always prevalent however, especially in Liz Lemon's personal storylines, but the show certainly has its moments, such as the classic fireworks spectacular that you have to see to believe. The show also greatly benefits from pitch-perfect casting. Also surprisingly, the show doesn't misuse, overuse, or abuse its use of guest stars (in this season).
I must admit, it took 3 years for me to get into the show, but once you get into it, it compels you to keep pressing on. I don't really know why, or how they do it. They just do it. And the show deserves all the acclaim it receives, and yes, it deservedly beat The Office for at least this season. I look forward to spending more time with Liz Lemon, the best named character on TV.
Movie Review: 30 Rock - a genuinely funny freshman comedy
Summary: 5 Stars
30 Rock is a seductive comedy with humor that feels clunky in the beginning - almost like (classic) SNL's red-headed stepchild, but eventually grows into its own.
The show centers around Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) as she deals with her new boss (Alec Baldwin) and a new showcase castmember (Tracy Morgan) forced on her by her boss. Tina Fey's Liz Lemon and her supporting cast of "writers" portray a hilarious back-and-forth while her interaction with her boss show a different humorous dynamic. Alec Baldwin shines as the boss who doesn't quite "get" Liz's comedy. He plays the typical network executive to a T, but you can see Liz's influence throughout the first season as he grows to trust her in matters beyond the show. Tracy Morgan does a great job at humanizing his character even though it's obvious that he is clinically insane.
The supporting cast has a strong showing, but as with all sitcoms the supporting characters tend to become half-baked and less developed. Though worth positively noting are Rachel Dratch's multiple random characters on the show - which show that her loss as a starring character was a real shame - and Chris Parnell as recurring character, Dr. Spaceman.
The season comes to a close a bit abruptly (almost anti-climacticly), but ends on a solid positive note. "30 Rock" shows its strength by not ending with a crazy cliffhanger and still leaving you enthusiastically waiting for the second season.