Early Netflix original and idiosyncratic comedy darling Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt released its final episodes on Friday, including an hour-long Sliding Doors foray into what the characters’ lives would look like if Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) had never been abducted in the first place.
The episode is at once everything we expect from Kimmy – hyperbole, wordplay, and the exaggerated characters we’ve come to love – and a remarkable opportunity for the cast and writers to flex their talents in a new version. Kimmy is self-involved and dispassionate; Titus (Titus Burgess) is a successful actor pretending to be straight; Lillian (Carol Kane) finds her niche as a drug lord, and Jacqueline (Jane Krakowski) finds herself unhappily married to the closeted Mikey (Mike Carlsen). Read more…
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